There has been many articles in the media lately with regards to skin cancer as a result of the over use of sun beds. I personally agree with the majority that we all feel much better with a tan. However, there seems to be a trend to become obsessive in the need to be permanently brown skinned. They are now calling it 'tanorexia'. I do find it worrying that young girls are being burnt by sunbeds and feel there needs to be an age restriction to protect them, they are naive to the dangers of the tanning machines.In the 'Daily Mail' on April 8th 2009, there was an article about a young woman (Amiee Broberg) who went on a sunbed twice a day for two years and then her skin started to fall off, yuk!
All this leads me to wonder how much pressure we place on ourselves to be the perfect, desirable as well as attractive, doesn't personality count for anything anymore? Is it society, along with the media that places so much emphasis on being beautiful? Why are we no longer satisfied with who we are, but strive to be something that we are not. What has made our expectations to be so high? I think that all this pressure we place ourselves under is rubbing off on our children and we need to be extremely careful. The younger generation are becoming so preoccupied with the expectations that the media has placed upon them as well as the increasing peer pressure,that they will forget to be themselves, and have FUN!
I totally agree with what you say in your article, I think today and for many years there have been a dictatorship of the beauty, but we can't deny we are part of it ourselves... Concerning sunbeds I believe it may help to feel better, for you feel so warm, and there is no worries, as far as one is reasonable of course! I read that it is strongly not recommended to have more than one sunbed session a month.
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