Is anorexia a turn on for you?

Question

Is anorexia the order of the day?

Answer 1

Oh my goodness, no! Anorexia is an illness which leads to malnutrition and death.

Anorexia is a symbol of all that is wrong in our world. It shows how we lack such a level of tolerance young girls and women push their bodies to the very brink of death to conform to what they see and social acceptance. This is so sad.

When we learn to accept all the many varied, totally normal differences of the human body we will be one step closer to true civilzation.

A symptom of the worlds illness is anorexia. There are many other symptoms of the worlds illness too, but this is one which deeply troubles me.

The reason this troubles me so deeply is because an individual is abusing her own body in a need for acceptance, and sometimes for love. Love and acceptance are closely related, and all of us yearn for both.

However, their is a difference between somebody else physically or emotionally coercing another into some type of conformity, and an individual inflicting self abuse for conformity. When we begin to abuse ourselves to meet the expectations of others, we are allowng those others to win without lifting a finger in effort. That is giving in, giving up, and handing our personal power to another, or multiple others.

Women are meant to be round, soft, and fluffy. A womans body naturally contains 30% more fat than a male. To expect women to keep the physical image of a young woman throughout her entire life is unrealistic and harmfull.

When a young women hits puberty, her body under goes a dramatic change. Horemones flood the body, bringing about added fat deposits to ready the body for child bearing.

Due to the unrealistic expectation of society towards womens bodies, young girls who enter puberty are dismayed at best, and horrified at worst by the added curves and fat deposits on her body. This is the critical time when she needs the most support, acceptance, and clear education in normal body developement. She needs to feel completely comfortable with these changes, and able to view them in a positive light.

However, due to the extreme examples of anorexic and borderline anorexic models, televison stars, and other women in the media, this does not occur. In addition, we have males who have an unrelistic view of what a womans body should look like too, which causes a deep fear in young women that their bodies do not meet that expectation, and thus they fear they will be rejected by their opposite sex peers. Those who they hope to mate with and live out a lifetime with. The young women have well grounded fears.

Add to this toxic mixture how women who become pregnant and then give birth, are expected to immediantly return to their prepregnancy bodies. This is more than unrealistic, it is very distructive.

Sadly, the same 5% of the world women who can "rate" being a model, or movie star, have bodies which usually are normally on the thin side to begin with, are also the same 5% which are able to naturally quickly return to some degree their prepregnancy appearance.

Young women are not educated about how only a mere 5% of the worlds female population have this herditary ability to not only be beautiful by todays standards, but also have this rare ability to keep a trim body.

Women are not told that it is perfectly normal and expected that 95% of women will keep around 10lbs of the pregnancy weight they gain, if fed a well balanced diet in todays wealthy society. In the days when starvation was always a near thing, women were skinny. Men wanted a large wife, because it showed he was wealthy, able to provide a consistant diet of food on a regular basis, keep her from hard physical labor which burns many colories.

We have all heard that phrase, "lose that last difficult 10 pounds".

The reason those last ten pounds is so difficult to lose, is because our bodies are made to retain them. We retain them to aid each supsequent pregnancy, and to aid our unborn in achieving a live birth. That extra weight is used in times of lack of available food, and the unborn child uses it for food, fuel to grow as healthy as possible, which in turn helps to ensure a live birth.

Today, with our abundance of food we no longer have the same expectation of iminent starvation, yet our bodies are still programmed to keep that last ten pounds for safety of the unborn child.

Anorexia is a sad symbol of how we do not accept others, or ourselves are we are created and formed. We are allowing ourselves to abuse our bodies in the hope of acceptance and love. We have given up the fight and our power to the social expectations which suround us, and in doing so we greatly reduce our ability to learn to accept and love ourselves as we are.

So, no, anorexia is not a turn on, it horrifies me. Anorexia is a horrific extreme of givng up on ones real self, of giving up on self acceptance, and self esteem.

Answer 2

Most definitely not! Watch Dr. Phil today- it's about eating disorders & what they do to the body. It's definitely not healthy. It's a mental health issue that needs to be treated by trained psychiatrists. Thin is okay, but there are many going way to far.

Answer 3

Anorexia is Sick...You should not force yourself to a body type you are not meant for!
Im 5'9 and I struggle trying to gain because everyone thinks my new 119 pounds is too little......
I loose a pound from running and everyone goes banana's..Sometimes I WISH I was a little chubby

Answer 4

Absolutely not! This is a very serious condition and takes lives of many. I feel badly for those who it touches and their families and friends.

Answer 5

Yes it is. I enjoy looking at anorexic pictures

Answer 6

An extreme turn off. and for most people.

Answer 7

no...but bulimia is...ahhh the smell of vomit on someone's breath

Answer 8

yuck, NO