Today is a very nice day. After days of raining the sun finally shines. I took out my year pass in my drawer which I have not used it for a long time. I decided to bring my kids to the Waterworld. Waterworld located in Hamilton, has one of the largest indoor or outdoor aquatic facilities in New Zealand. Some facilities include New Python Hydrolides and Screamer Speedslides, fun inflatable, outdoor Splash Pad area for toddlers, spa, sauna and stream rooms (waterworld, n.d.). In waterworld, I noticed many girls are wearing bikinis. I remembered when I was a little girl. Women used to wear one piece swimming suits instead of the sexy bikinis nowadays. I wonder, are there any reasons behind the change? Can I explain it using Geography?
Perhaps, I should get my head around some of the studies I done before. In my research Transformative Tans: Gendered and reaced bodies on beaches (2005) which I examine “the intentional act of transforming the colour of one’s skin-sun-tanning-by Pakeha” (Johnston, 2005b, p. 110), I found out that the trendy act of being tanned represents a link between the bronzed body and the feminized erotic. A tanned body help women get sexualized attention and becomes attractive, beautiful, confident and sexy in others eyes (Johnston, 2005). Under this way of thinking, will express a female body with bikini become more attractive, beautiful, confident and sexy than express with one piece swimming suits?
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