Aug 24, 2017 1:32 PM

Fashionable female body parts and the passage of time

*It's 2017 AD, and anyone, male or female, can look at this pop video and see what parts of the human anatomical real estate are being valorized or ignored by the contemporary gaze.

https://youtu.be/3fxOicR8F68

*Why? She's dead, but she can tell you why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hollander

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