Men lusting for less curves

The Age ^ | 12/20/2002

[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.

[archy]

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

I certainly hope the parts don't fall off the Italian women the way thy do off at least some of the Italian automobiles. Or have you never owned a Fiat 500?<p. -archy-/-

[Desdemona]

Class. What a concept

BUMP

[archy]

So....women are just sweets with different amts of sugar?

Like Mark Twain said, *All generalities are untrue.*

But some women are just sweets with varying amounts of sugar, and not much more substance than a wand of candyfloss from the county fair.

And some are not.

-archy-/-

[archy]

Who was the female co-star of "The Rookie"? Great-looking woman.

Rachel Griffiths. I expect we'll be seeing her in another film or two....

[Pyro7480]

UNFAIR POST

Why do you say that?? ;-)

[BuddhaBoy]

Rachel Griffiths?

On Six Feet Under, she looks like a mutt if you ask me.

[Rytwyng]

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.

True, and sad.

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.

I didn't have that option. For me, the curves of the hips are the make-or-break issue for me. I just can't get turned on by skinny, hipless women who look like boys from the back.

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

Perhaps. But the voluptuous woman has a considerable tolerance for weight gain, before she loses her appeal -- whereas a genetically hipless woman who gains any weight at all, ends up looking like a potbellied man.

If voluptuous woman with nice "breeder hips", does put on a little weight, it mostly goes right TO the hips, enhancing rather than detracting from her luscious "pear" proportions. Whereas I've seen plenty of hipless wonders who quickly lost what little trace of feminine proportions they did have, because they gain weight in the waist ("apples") and end up with a "male" waist-hip ratio.

[archy]

Rachel Griffiths?

On Six Feet Under, she looks like a mutt if you ask me.

Well, you gotta admit that a dark comedy set in a funeral home may not be the ideal glamour role.

But Rebecca DeMornay managed to take a role with a character in a far less plesant setting and shine through it, so we'll see what Griffiths manages next try, though I doubt she's up to the standard set by Katherine Hepburn in The African Queen, either.

[RightOnline]

"Well! Some of you are very proud of your trophies!"

Well, she's definitely a prize.......but hardly a "trophy". She also happens to be the mother of our seven children (one at a time, the hard way) and we'll have been married 25 years in February. Guess there's a little more goin' on here than the "Trophy Wife Syndrome". :)

[BuddhaBoy]

You have a point, but even DeMornay has gone down hill from her days during Risky Business, where she never looked better.

[Young Werther]

As Inspector Clouseau might say, "Whatta set of bmps!" "Bmps you say?"

[proust]

The basic premise of the study is faulty. It assumes that PB is still the leading edge of what men find attractive. It isn't. PB's sales have dropped dramatically in the past decade as Maxim and others like it have now become the leaders. PB's playmate statistic change has more to do with what old man Hef finds attractive more than anything else.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

It assumes that PB is still the leading edge of what men find attractive. It isn't. PB's sales have dropped dramatically in the past decade as Maxim and others like it have now become the leaders.

I don't think so. I think Playboy still pretty much nails it, and the day people turn to Maxim over Playboy just isn't going to happen. As far as Playboy's sales drop is concerned . . . have you ever heard of a little thing called the Internet? It's all the rage nowadays . . . you can get "porn" on it and everything---for free.

An example of one of Playboy's best, Nicole Van Croft:

[BuddhaBoy]

PB sales will continue to drop, as long as the basic premise for the magazine is that tall, blonde bimbos are attracted to a Viagra-chomping grandpa in silk pajamas.

[Sungirl]

Wow....7 kids! Congratulations on the upcoming 25 years!

[Fintan]

Class. What a concept.

Does she count?

[El Sordo]

I wrote Alron Brown, asking for an autographed picture of 'W'. Never did hear back.

I still want one.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Amen - an alluring attitude is a powerful asset.

[Pagey]

Thanks for that! I really need to get some free space online for my pictures.Ava, what a Woman!

[Harley109]

Curves make me swerve. No plump on the rump, makes me a grump, or in bust we trust.