Take a look at your body. All the parts you can see, as well as all those on the inside, have been given a name at some point in history. There are plenty of descriptive, fairly innocuous names. But ...

My friends and I talk about our bodies all the time. We ask for advice; we ask for healing prayer. Some of our ailments are more general: ear infections, stomach bugs, clogged sinuses, tight shoulders ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.