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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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.
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.)
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. Dont like um skinny, dont 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.
While they can be, generally I find them too high maintenance for my taste.
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.
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.
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