I believe I have a unique take on this. My contention is that men do indeed like the more voluptuous curvaceous woman. Unfortunately, women themselves have been poor stewards of their bodies with the increasingly high fat diets and lack of commitment to losing weight after childbirth by women over the years.
There is a fine line between voluptuous and outright fat and unfortunately the increasingly fatty diets eventually push these one-time voluptuous women over the line into fatdom and men detest that. Men really can't say anything about it either for fear of being cut off in the bedroom and creating general marital strife.
In order to preempt that eventuality, men have accordingly chosen more slender women to mate with over the years. This selection strategy by men allows these more slender women to blossom through childbirth and the increasingly fatty diets into the voluptuous women that men prefer.
So the truth is that men's tastes have not really changed, their desire to avoid conflict and get laid remains a constant. They have just gotten more intelligent about how to obtain that state of nirvana. Pretty simple.
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Hey, this was a very long happy thread with great pics. Please don't start up the diet wars. Those are some of the nastiest threads ever.
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increasingly high fat diets 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.