Men lusting for less curves

The Age ^ | 12/20/2002

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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.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

What's a MILF?

[New Horizon]

Mother I'd Like to ****

[Constitution Day]

Heh heh.

[The Wizard]

where does this crap come from.......obviously too much time on his hands

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Monica Bellucci:

[MadelineZapeezda]

I think that is a young Bridget Bardot. HHH.....am I correct?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Dang HLL - we can always count on you to defend sanity when this arguement pops up. You are the only person I know who has a better eye for female beauty than I do. I'll just have to work harder to keep up.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Patricia Velasquez:

[Mamzelle]

Guide for the Married Man---Interesting choice of movie! I love this one for the wit and the curiously moral underpinning (considering it's Hollywood). The lovely Inger Stevens would be considered fat these days, as would most of the tootsies in this movie. Another movie I like is "Where the Boys Are", which decries the naivte of women about men, a movie feminists ought to watch. And dauthers, too.

What men find beautiful is endlessly fascinating to women. I found the recent Victoria's Secret show distressing not because so many beautiful women were present for the delectation of men, but because I thought the most (not all) of the "women" has masculinized proportions, like a middle-school boys basketball team (with the regulation silicone, size small, tacked on as an afterthought). It is disheartening to think one must compete with a hairless adolescent boy.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Gasp!
Thanks for that.

I don't have a picture of either, but Helen Twelve Trees (High Noon)always worked for me.

Complete opposite but almost too incredible to believe, the real Mary from Cumberland, not the girl in the movie who was no comparison. (Something about Mary)

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Shakara:

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Drea De Matteo:

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Yes, that is a young Bardot. She was gorgeous until cigarettes and sun exposure took their toll.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Cori Nadine:

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Veronika Zemanova:

[Mr. K]

AAUUGHHHHHHHHH MY EYES MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fintan]

AGFTMM is a great flick...but here's another one from the same era you might want to check out:

[Mamzelle]

re:You'll notice that many designers and fashion writers are gay men... and these are the people who are telling the rest of us what's sexy? )))

Seems to have worked to a great extent. I remember the forgettable Jennifer Anniston a few years ago was curvy... just recently, at some premiere, she looked like she'd been through a course of chemotherapy. All to get the "parts" in the movies.

Actually, blame Ballanchine for starting this. He was a choreographer for ballet dancers in NYC in the sixties and seventies, and decreed the tall dancer. Before, ballet dancers were short with the regular feminine shape, though never voluptuous. Ballanchine wanted them tall. BUT--the male dancers had to lift all that heavy bone, and they didn't get any taller or stronger! The answer was to force the giraffes to stay as skeletal as possible so the poor boys could still lift them. This started an entire fashion in the dancers' world, which then carried over into fashion and theatre. And it is the movies that defines what is beautiful.