The idea that there is a pre-modern era of “anything goes” regarding normative <a href="http://nowoczesnadepilacja.pl/">depilacja genitaliów</a> bodies is a commonplace. Lennard Davis, too, in their important focus on the disabled body and what he calls “enforcing normalcy” claims that “before the advent of statistics in the nineteenth century” images of beautiful women for example Venus possessed “a mythic poetic body related to that in the gods” and thus “there is not any demand that populations have bodies that adapt to the ideal”.ImageIf you look more closely with the premodern period, however, these assumptions take time and effort to sustain. It is a commonplace in today’s psychological literature that body image and also the desire for body modification of all kinds is profoundly suffering from an unconscious assimilation of images obtained from a variety of media sources. It is impossible to conduct psychological experiments, obviously, on long-dead subjects, but my question for you is – can the proliferation of images in the female nude from the early sixteenth century onwards have affected women’s notions of their very own bodies?