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This paper examines the relationship " often predictable, but sometimes surprising " between body image and sexual satisfaction, examining in particular how so many people end up with a poor body image and little sexual satisfaction because they do not meet cultural standards for beauty. However, another focus of this research is how some people who are not good matches for culturally mandated standards of beauty or sexual attractiveness nevertheless find a high degree of sexual satisfaction.

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"We might think that sexuality is a perfectly natural aspect of human life. After all, we could hardly have survived as a species if sex were not something that we could engage in without too much analysis. But therein lies the rub, for sexual satisfaction " or sexuality " and sex are not the same thing anymore than sex and gender are. While for the purposes of this paper we may define sex as various forms of intimate contact (including intercourse) between two people (usually of opposite sexes) in which the biological shape of people's bodies is the most important determining factor, sexual satisfaction is in many ways a cultural construct. Sexual satisfaction includes both the physical sensations of sex and everything we think about them " from whom we believe should have sex with whom to the morality of abortion to whom we find sexually attractive. The issues of human sexuality " as opposed to the biological mechanics of sex " is a vastly complex topic, too broad for a single paper. Thus this research concentrates on a single corner of this topic, the intersection of body image and sexual satisfaction."

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