Veeery interesting idea...

I am watching "The History of Sex" on the History Channel and they are talking about WWII and the creation of the pin-up girl. One expert was talking about how soldiers had a lot of free time and no real connections to their sweethearts back in the states except letters and pictures. So they would look at pictures of the pin-up girls that were created for them (from magazines like "Yank" and others)(not the sexual connotation of 'yank' either). As they were looking, they had the time to sit and really think about what they thought was beautiful and how it changed their perceptions of beauty. And made them realize just what it was that they were going to be coming home to.

I paused it so I could write this, and maybe this will come up later, but I wonder just how much this impacted what was socially considered beautiful as far as women were concerned. It's interesting to think that these soldiers could have changed the course of what was considered beautiful because of the time they had to stare at cartoon drawings of women and either believe they were real or believed they would be coming home to that reality.

Very interesting...