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The redness of men in Egyptian art is based on the fact that men's skin is redder, due to more hemoglobin closer to the surface.

• Tuna-Fish 17y ago
  Another good point is that fairer skin is, and has long been, a sexually desirable trait. A pharaoh has his pick of anyone he wants.
  • kingkawn 17y ago
    Since the European conquest of the planet, the fairer skin preference has been projected back onto many other groups of people, but is inherently suspicious given the circumstances within which we've learned about their cultures.
    • ksvs 17y ago
      It long predates that. European slave girls (and boys) were particularly prized in the caliphate when Europe was a backwater.
      • Gupie 17y ago
        Historically pale skin was prized because rich women didn't work in the fields, they stayed in doors out of the sun. Tans came into fashion with air travel. Only the wealthy could fly to say the Med for their holidays Also I suppose poor slum dwellers didn't get much sun. They only got rickets due to a subsequent lack of vitimum D.
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