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Men lusting for less curves
The Age ^
| 12/20/2002
Posted on 12/19/2002 5:49:58 PM PST by ArcLight
Men's taste in women has changed dramatically over the past half-century, shifting away from girls with curves and big breasts towards the androgynous and the skinny.
The assertion comes from two psychoanalysts who pored over every Playboy from December 1953 and calculated the body mass index of every centrefold. Over 577 issues, the models became taller and their waist increased, while their hips became narrower and their bust became smaller. If Playboy is any guide, the needle on the male sexual compass has switched from Marilyn Monroe to Eva Herzigova, the scientists say.
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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: fashion; glamour; trends
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To: evolved_rage
Buzzkill.
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
</p>Cork, Hessia, have to look that one up, Hesse, North Saxony? We have a tendancy to be largely Eng;ish and Scots, with some Irish thrown in to keep the genes up to snuff.</p>
To: Jhoffa_
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:21:05 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: Jhoffa_
But, believe me.. No one wants to be more than friends with the chicken breasted among us. she clucked..
I don't understand what any of that means.
To: Little Bill
Hessia is in Germany, and County Cork is Ireland. I get my height from the Hessians and my hair from the Irish.
To: All
Even more important...I'd like to see some pictures of you guys ......
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:22:46 PM PST
by
Sungirl
To: who knows what evil?
My idea of working out is raising my arm to get the barmaid to bring me another pint of Guinness.
To: Paul Atreides
That reminds me: who do you think was the best Bond girl?
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Honor Blackman is now a knockout attractive woman in her 70s.
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:23:01 PM PST
by
RLK
To: ArcLight
These guys 'pored over' every Playboy from 1953? This is a joke right? How can I get the job doing that?
To: RLK
Honor Blackman
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
I was teasing..
Like "androgynous and skinny" women conspired and wrote this..
I woorded it poorly though and it was spread out over three posts.
Of course I have no idea what you or anyone else here looks like for that matter. So, please don't take it as a personal attack.
Otoh, maybe it's just playboy's answer to the aids epidemic.
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:27:39 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Sophia Loren! She STILL looks great!
To: evolved_rage
Dammit-all! Talk about stolen thunder! I was gonna put that pic up as a "thread buster", since this thread has gotten rather out of (or into....) hand.
To: cmsgop
That's what I look like without my makeup..
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:28:15 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
To: Paul Atreides
Bond?? James Bond??? Now there's the womans dream man:
Sean Connery!
WOW!! I'd be in favor of cloning..... just for Seans.
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:28:25 PM PST
by
Sungirl
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:28:35 PM PST
by
RLK
To: ArcLight
Well, as they say in the academic research trade, "It's a fithy job, but somebody's gotta do it." And my better half, the beautiful and talented Felicity Fahrquar, added, "It's important to suffer for science." Are there federal grants for this kind of work? I mean, Playboy is just one sample. There are a LOT of magazines out there showing proto-typical women in various stages of undress....
Congressman Billybob
Click for latest column on UPI, "Junk Science - Harvard and Beyond" (Not yet on UPI wire, nor FR.)
Click for latest book, "to Restore Trust in America"
To: Sungirl
,,, OK, here ya go. Shaggy eel Freeper wife "Calvert Cliffs Cafe" and our little red Morgan.
Now, why not post a pic of your cat for us?
To: Jhoffa_
Remind me to send you some of my Wife's Clinique......
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:32:22 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: cmsgop
Remind me to send you some of my Wife's Clinique......
It won't make me smell fat, will it?
Hey, didn't some freeper put us all in a picture album some time back?
LPGA or something like that?
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posted on
12/19/2002 7:33:24 PM PST
by
Jhoffa_
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