Men lusting for less curves

The Age ^ | 12/20/2002

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Thank you very much for the compliment. I see nothing wrong with beautiful women or wanting to be beautiful. I know that I don't get ready in the morning to look ugly. Just becuase I don't own a pair of Birkenstocks or go around as a plain Jane doesn't make me less respectable.

I also refuse to starve myself to death or put big bags of chemicals in my chest to try to be attractive to men. I am happy just the way I am.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Re: Cori Nadine......Why would any girl want her picture taken in a junk yard as she is working out her constipation?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Cause only a girl that good lookin' could make it work.

[SpeakLittle_ThinkMuch]

"I also refuse to starve myself to death or put big bags of chemicals in my chest to try to be attractive to men. I am happy just the way I am."

And a standing O to you for being the way you are......Let's all have another cookie!

[Oberon]

Seems to have worked to a great extent. I remember the forgettable Jennifer Anniston a few years ago was curvy...

Can you, or anyone here, remember Belinda Carlisle when she was with the Go-Gos? A much different look than when she launched her solo career... and a better one, to my mind.

[Axenolith]

Yup, a good standard to measure by would be any woman our boys would have painted on the nose of a B-17 or B-24 :)

[Rytwyng]

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.

NO, NO, NO!!!!! The androgynous fashion models are selected by GAY men, who secretly lust after boys and therefore choose boyish looking women as models. Straight men prefer normal, curvy women, always have, always will. Anthropological studies show that this is true for all races and all cultures.

(Personal note: poster Rytwyng is happily married to a woman with beautiful, bell-curved "breeder hips", who looks dynamite in tight 501s.)

[conservativemusician]

I got everything but the Ashley Judd picture!

That's the one I was waiting for.LOL

It's comin' up the damn red x.

[Rytwyng]

I think you might like this thread....

[Intimidator]

bump to keep going. MORE PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!

[evolved_rage]

Didn't Roger Ebert write that screenplay????

[BuddhaBoy]

Thanks for the ping, I was very busy yesterday.

My own thoughts? I think curves are great, but only in the right places. I like well toned women, without a lot of baby fat. Don’t like um skinny, don’t like them fat either. I like them fit with good legs. Feminine perfection for me? Maybe the body of that woman on JAG(Catherine Bell) with the face Catherine Zeta Jones?

A pic of Catherine Bell.

[HamiltonJay]

Playboy represents what Hugh Hefner thinks sexy is, nothing more nothing less. And everyone knows Hefner likes tall blondes.... So playboy is hardly an indicator of what men find sexy as a whole.

[HamiltonJay]

Italian Woman = Sultry!

While they can be, generally I find them too high maintenance for my taste.

[Long Cut]

What is even morew disheartening is how an entire generation (and maybe more) of young girls now think that they are "too fat", and thus have unbelievable problems with anorexia and bulimia.

As this thread shows, real men like natural, healthy, CURVY women who LOOK LIKE women! (wow, big shock there!). It is the fashion industry, along with the motion picture industry, that has pushed the "thin is in" view on women, to the detriment of us all.

I go on "movie geek" sites a lot...movies are a hobby of mine. On one, a photo of Cameron Diaz was recently posted, wearing a swimsuit in an upcoming movie. She looked positively boyish and, frankly, UGLY. In the thread that followed the post, the VAST MAJORITY of the males who responded (and this was movie geeks of all ages and types) denounced her broomstick figure. Thus, it would seem that no matter HOW hard they try, Hollywood cannot override preprogrammed instincts.

The trouble is, girls growing up in the shadow of all this, and with the normal insecurities that all adolescents face, are particularly susceptible to the effects of it.

[BuddhaBoy]

While they can be, generally I find them too high maintenance for my taste.

Italian Women are like Italian cars. Very sexy, very sleek, and VERY expensive.

[Pagey]

An entire thread on curves and not 1 picture of Ava Gardner ? C'mon now!

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Being from Cumberland, RI, I was hugely dissapointed to see Cameron Diaz as Mary.

The real Mary of Cumberland was utterly babelicious.
The only thing they got right was the tall and blonde.

There really was something about Mary.
Wonder what ever became of her. Maybe I should hire a detective to track her down.

[HamiltonJay]

Italian Women are like Italian cars. Very sexy, very sleek, and VERY expensive.

Well when I called em High Maintenance I wasn't talking about the $$$$... was talking about the emotional toll they extract... I don't think of em as sportscars, more like Chryslers... way too whiny and in need of constant attention just to perform routine functions reliably. Believe being tempermental is normal and acceptable.

There are some sweeties out there, but for the most part, you can keep em. Don't want to work that hard.. relationships should work, not BE neverending work.