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PA and its Universal Associations |
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Indicates Youthfulness and Greater Health
Contemporary scientific data increasingly confirm hypotheses that people associate higher Physical Attractiveness with perception of greater health, which then leads to people placing greater value on correspondingly greater Physical Attractiveness.
Reality is that a person’s Physical Attractiveness strongly signals corresponding levels of health as well as age. In turn, health and age are integrally interdependent appearance variables that contribute to the determination of a person’s Physical Attractiveness—looks of greater health and younger ages translate into perceptions of higher Physical Attractiveness.
This explains why, on top of the vast array of available cosmetic surgeries, facial treatments, and over-the-counter products, people continue to demand more and more prescription-required pharmaceutical drugs.
The huge and growing demand for surgical and nonsurgical means to increase a person’s Physical Attractiveness drives the research and development, marketing, and prescribing of products deemed pertinent. Advanced science is being used increasingly, even combining chemical and electronic technologies to produce new, pricey alternatives to reverse face wrinkles. A new facial filler product called Sculptra, approved The The U. S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA] in 2004, proved to be an instant hit. The product, first approved in Europe in 1999 to fill creases and wrinkles, is now available in more than thirty countries worldwide. Use of FDA approved products such as Restylane and Botox for minimally invasive wrinkle treatments is growing dramatically to appear young and healthier.
Convergence in Views Regarding Physical Attractiveness
Physical Attractiveness is certainly an esthetic for which there is no absolute gauge, but, maybe surprising, there is convincing agreement about Physical Attractiveness of males and females of all ages, when rated by males and females of all ages in all cultures and all times.
Very clearly, contemporary times show increasing convergence about Physical Attractiveness standards/determinants between races and cultures, as well as continuance of the larger Physical Attractiveness phenomenon between races and cultures throughout history. A reason for diminished plurality among races and cultures about determinants of Physical Attractiveness is that modern communications technology, combined with widespread acceptance of fashions and lifestyles, is producing what can be recognized as a global village, leading to a universal standard of Physical Attractiveness. Accordingly, despite the Santayana’s notion that beauty is indescribable, people can and do predict with great accuracy the level of Physical Attractiveness that a person will likely perceive when exposed to another person. |
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Health, Youthfulness and Universal Associations |
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Looks of greater health and younger ages translate into perceptions of higher Physical Attractiveness, e.g. now chemical and electronic technologies are producing new, pricey alternatives to reverse face wrinkles. |
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Widespread acceptance of fashions and lifestyles is turning the world into a global village, leading to a universal standard of Physical Attractiveness. |
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