The March 2015 edition of South Africa’s Marie Claire is holding a few treats in store for those willing to buy it this month. A number of local celebrities have taken the step of posing nude in an attempt to draw attention to and raise awareness of violence against women in the country.

A roll-call of the names involved is a list of some of the continent’s most beautiful faces and bodies. They include Lira, Pearl Thusi, Katherine Pichulik, Sue Duminy, Amalia Uys (pictured), Leandie du Randt, Nadia Valvekens, Angel Campey, Shimmy Isaacs, Daniella Deysel, Daisy May and Joelle Kayembe. Now… where DID we put that subscription form?

Lingerie company Neon Moon have created and surpassed a Kickstarter goal for their new brand of ‘feminist lingerie’. Founder and creator Hayat Rachi has worked to create underwear with bamboo fabric and zero under-wiring that ideally will shape itself around the wearer’s body to offer as much comfort and support as possible; a world away from underwear sets that may accentuate certain body parts but at the price of enjoying your day without sharp bits of metal poking into soft flesh.

A shoot for the Huffington Post showed how these designs adapt to women of different shapes and sizes. Rachi’s concern with promoting real women and normal body shapes are at the forefront of her mind. Just another welcome notch on the belt of fairness.

In other news, science has once again stepped up to prove once and for all what most of us were already thinking. In this case, the University of Texas has decided that men are hardwired by evolution to find ‘curvier’ women more attractive. Despite our attempts to try and cover it up, it is our primordial urges, our very essence of being, that carries us forward. Texas found that men have a strong preference for women with a “theoretically optimal angle of lumbar curvature,” a 45.5 degree curve from back to buttocks allowing ancestral women to better support, provide for, and carry out multiple pregnancies. It probably explains why we all went mad for twerking a couple of years ago anyway. Mmm, baby… curve that spine!