When Did "thigh Gaps" Become A Thing?

Gap is a beautiful thing! Something about that figure is very sexy, I try not to stare, but…!

 

Citation needed.

I thought it was common knowledge these so-called rules came from cosmetic companies and the fashion industry.

 

I agree.
Every publication whether magazine or online, including billboard ads and all those companies in the makeup and underwear/clothing sectors whose products are in those publications are the ones pushing those so-called rules.

I admit to being attracted to women who know how to wear good makeup, well. However, I'm usually attracted to them without makeup.

 

I agree Bazz. I prefer less makeup which allows their natural beauty to show. All woman are naturally beautiful!

 

If a woman's legs don't touch at any point along their thighs while standing straight up, it's because they're skinny. That's what it's about. It's just removing one particular trait from the overall and writ-large societal value placed on being thin as a supposed indicator of one's character and beauty. To wit: fatphobia.

It's not sexually attractive to everyone. A lot of my friends who are cis-male or were assigned a male gender at birth like curves, big breasts and big butts. That's also a body type that is put on a pedestal. But for very different reasons. One being a primal attraction to fecundity.

I like really skinny women with flat boyish bodies. Always have, always will. There are a few reasons for that and they range from having been conditioned to like it by society's fatphobia and my resulting anorexia, to having been conditioned to like it by the heroin chic look that was in vogue at the time I was self-actualizing as a sexual being in the mid-90s, to an innate attraction to that particular balance of the inherent femininity of a smooth and sleek body that also displays the structure of the female body.

Lastly, I like how it makes a woman's vulva look. Am I proud of the ethical failures inherent in some of those reasons for my thigh gap predilection? Nope! But like anyone else, I wasn't consulted on the choices that were chosen for me.

 

I learned it the difficult way that thigh gaps aren't exactly seen as attractive. Besides, my body shape never allows for a thigh gap. Eating disorder recovery is difficult (for SO many reasons)