Thin Ideal: Body Image, Beauty Standards, and Sexual Confidence
The thin ideal is a cultural beauty standard that presents thinness as especially attractive or desirable and can influence body image, confidence, eating, and sexuality.
Body Comparison: Appearance Standards, Anxiety, and Sexual Confidence
Body comparison is the habit of judging one’s body against other people or appearance ideals and may influence body image, anxiety, confidence, and sexuality.
Body Checking: Appearance Monitoring, Anxiety, and Body Image
Body checking is repeated monitoring or measuring of one’s appearance or body and may reinforce anxiety, body dissatisfaction, comparison, and sexual self-consciousness.
Appearance Anxiety: Body Image, Self-Consciousness, and Sexual Confidence
Appearance anxiety is persistent worry about how one looks or how others may judge one’s appearance, and it can affect body image, confidence, intimacy, and daily life.
Muscle Dysmorphia: Muscularity, Body Image, and Sexual Confidence
Muscle dysmorphia is an excessive preoccupation with being insufficiently muscular or lean, often affecting exercise, body image, confidence, health, and relationships.
Body Image: Appearance, Self-Perception, and Sexual Confidence
Body image is how a person perceives, thinks, and feels about their body, including appearance, physical characteristics, abilities, changes, and sexual confidence.