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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I'll have an order of curves with a side of breasts please.
I'm talking about a test drive, or maybe a weekend rental, my friend.
Dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmn.
I say bring it on! I can verbally joust 6 fat chicks with one hand tied behind my back.
Actually, fat isn't what makes people fat. Carbohydrates plus genetic susceptibilty makes people fat. The fat content of the American diet has been dropping for a couple of decades, and yet obesity is now at an all time high -- it doesn't take a rocket scientist (hee hee) to figure out that the "eat fat = get fat" correlation just isn't true.
The whole "lowfat/high complex carb" diet push has been a complete fraud -- as I learned the hard way. I kept gaining and gaining, even though I was a serious runner at the time (and that's not supposed to happen.) How I WISH I could undo the damage it did to my body, and get my old physique back! But, at least, by limiting carbs I can prevent it from getting any worse.
and lack of commitment to losing weight after childbirth by women over the years.
Part of this is due to lack of breast feeding. Fat storage during pregnancy is designed to prepare for feeding baby. Without breastfeeding, it may be nearly impossible to take off that weight.
There is a fine line between voluptuous and outright fat
No, there's not. A woman with the right musclo-skeletal structure can be extremely voluptuous, and yet very lean.
Most of those who've tried a nicely frosted cake know that the icing is not the best part...or there'd be no call for cakes, just bowls of icing and spoons.
But there are probably as many little kids who would gladly dig into a bowl filled with such a treat as there are guys who look only at the outside of a possible feminine analogue to their personality. When the gods are feeling particularly malevolent, they arrange for two with similar beliefs to meet.
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While they can be, generally I find them too high maintenance for my taste.
We are? How so? Besides, have you ever been fed better than by an Italian?
Be careful what you wish for; your wish might come true.
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I'm holding out for a cutie from one of those James Bond films.
Oh, be still, my beating heart....
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The mode of expanded girth is not the issue, it is a fact that has befallen our society over the past few decades. Whether it's a lack of exercise or the alighnment of the planets is not important. People are fatter and thus women are fatter.
My theory of preemptive selection of a slender mate remains a good explanation for the observed selection trend among men and at the very least represents my selection strategy.
No, there's not. A woman with the right musclo-skeletal structure can be extremely voluptuous, and yet very lean.
I still believe that even an extremely voluptuous woman with right musclo-skeletal structure is more susceptible to becoming fat than a genetically thin woman and I would bet dollars to donuts that any data would bare that out.
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