It is very true that a huge amount of time is spent making ourselves attractive to the opposite sex. From all angles we are bombarded with pressure to become and maintain “beauty”. Of course, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, so the definition of beauty changes, depending on who is doing the looking. However, we are never taught that beauty has a broad scope – instead we are forced into thinking that we must ‘fit’ into a set look in order to be considered attractive or beautiful. This is a remnant from an old saga that has been going on for thousands of years. In the article you see at this link, you will read about how women felt for many thousands of years that the only thing they had to trade was their sexuality. Things haven’t changed a lot, although today we are blessed to have access to education and we have a lot more choices than we did have. At least, in the western world we do. There is good reason for women having previously thought that they only had their sexuality to trade. Here in this article I write about the history of how this came to be. Continue reading →