Muscular, coppery, shaved, satin and often, for the younger generations, multi-tattooed.
Such should be the famous “summer body”, this summer body that some people dream of showing off on the beach and scrupulously prepare before their vacation.
Another aesthetic injunction, widely used in women's magazines since the 1950s, today relayed (in English) by social networks and their armada of influencers showing off from every angle.
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Despite the images of freedom conveyed by vacations, the beach and the baring of bodies, summer would therefore be the season for appearances.
"There is a standardization of the bodies that we show there and that we can not help but compare
, deciphers the philosopher Bernard Andrieu.
On the beach, the vacationer likes to display the signs of a stay by the sea and the spectacle of bodies, their parade one might say, responds above all to heterosexual codes centered on seduction. "
However, in recent seasons and the popularization
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