Gotta run now. I am heading down to the soup kitchen after I stop by Goodwill to deliver some clothes.
And tonight I have a date with Anna.
Posted on 09/03/2004 6:13:43 AM PDT by Area Freeper
IF, FOR THE past 10 years, I had been required to spend every day looking at pictures of nude women, there's a good chance I would have ended up with protruding eyeballs, sweaty palms and a tendency to giggle inappropriately. But professor Nancy Hirschbergh of Illinois University did exactly that and got away with it -- partly because she is a woman and partly because she was conducting a scientific psychological study.
In the study, male test subjects were shown pictures of nude females with varied sizes of breasts, buttocks and legs. Each subject was asked to pick the picture he preferred, and all men were later given a personality test. Then the professor announced the results of her 10-year dirty-picture exhibition. Her research showed, she said, that there was a significant correlation between men's anatomical preferences and their own personalities.
Men who liked women with large breasts, for example, were found to be "outgoing, show-offy, and independent," and "don't care to help other people."
Men who preferred women with large buttocks were "orderly, socially dependent, guilty, and self-abasing."
And men who liked what the survey called "leggy women" were found to be "socially active and willing to help others."
WHAT BOTHERED me was that the study perpetuated the stereotype of men falling into just three categories: Bust Men, Fanny Men and Leg Men.
What about people like myself, who are excited by a woman with an engaging mouth? One reason I watched "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," for example, was that Mary's large, attractive mouth drove me crazy. Throw in a slight overbite -- like that of Julie Andrews or Anne Jeffries or Jean Simmons -- it's sometimes all I can do to keep from banging my head against the wall.
Professor Hirschbergh had nice things to say about the Leg Man, but if his interests had extended just a few inches lower he would not have been called a Foot Man, but a foot "fetishist" -- a synonym, in some people's minds, for "pervert."
I have a male friend who is fascinated by women's ears. A woman with cute ears can cause his eyes to glaze over, yet he has managed to live a relatively normal life.
This raises serious questions. Why should men like my friend and me be considered weird? Must our woman-watching be confined to chest, rump and thigh? Does any other area of interest make us fetishists? Is an Italian fetishist a fetishino?
I DON'T KNOW those answers, but I think it's a sad day for science when a 10-year study is based on the myth that men have only three things on their mind.
I sympathize with women who say they are sick and tired of being viewed as a sex object. But I'm getting a little sick and tired of being viewed as a sex adjective.
Being a Renaissance man I like them all.
How about what type of a boat a woman owns?
Show up naked,
Bring beer
"men have only three things on their mind."
Sports, gambling, and.....uh, help me out here....
What a waste of money we all know most men only have ONE thing on their mind!
I like my women with large morals....small moraled women are too dangerous and expensive
I like all women. That of course excludes liberal females.
Gotta run now. I am heading down to the soup kitchen after I stop by Goodwill to deliver some clothes.
And tonight I have a date with Anna.
The second worse thing you can do to a woman is treat her like a sex object.
The first... is not treat her like a sex object.
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Pictures speak louder than words.
And can she clean fish?
I know what every man likes in a woman but cannot say what it is in present company.
Show up naked,
Bring beer
REPEAT!
Depends on what her mouth engages. ;-)
What say you?
Ha! Didn't take you long to show up on this one! :-)
Needs more study. Is the professor taking volunteers?
Power tools.
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