I think it's hard for men to understand the effect on women, of being bombarded with images of physical perfection.They can deny themselves the right to enjoy life fully; partake of all life's pleasures,because they believe their bodies aren't perfect enough. The antidote is to bombard them with images of women having fun, regardless of what life has done to their bodies. You can't be expected to understand that for once,these images were not created for your viewing pleasure,for you to judge. Their beauty lies in the courage of these people,to share with us something so private,and say " hey look how imperfectly perfect we all are!Look at our spirits shining through regardless ( or because) of our physical imperfections."

The point is that these images represent the human body with standard effects of age. From statistics on average body shape and type, these are not out of the ordinary for humans over their mid-20's, regardless of country and culture. The fact that they appear "nasty" is because you are not used to viewing people as they are. On top of the fact that being at the peak of health still does not HALT aging and skin thinning/wrinkles, going through pregnancy will stretch and tax someone's body, regardless of diet and exercise. It's a very small minority of women who either have more money, time or lucky genetics who would still look like a magazine cover, and you are getting "hate" for calling bodies nasty because it is an unrealistic and mean-spirited thing to call most people's bodies' ugly for simply aging or having a child. Further, I don't see how it benefits anyone to share that you find people nasty to look at one they are out of an adolescent level of physical beauty.

Lisa, you think men aren't bombarded with images of physical perfection? just look at publicity for a little bit anything for 5 minutes ;)

"ALL of god's creation,"? Joe Dad

i totally agree w you

You're not the only one Joe Dad. I'll give anyone props for having the guts to do this, but other than that I don't see the point. I see plenty of reasons to *not* put yourself in a shop window like this, and I say that for anyone from oldies to bikini models. Unfortunately, people are too self centered to think about that side of things though.