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Obesity Adds To Sex Problems
AP/Theindychannel.com ^ | June 16, 2010 | Maria Cheng

Posted on 06/16/2010 5:31:29 AM PDT by Abathar

LONDON -- Scientists say being fat can be bad for the bedroom, especially if you're a woman.

In a new study, European researchers found obese women had more trouble finding a sexual partner than their normal-weight counterparts, though the same wasn't true for obese men, and were four times as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy. Fat men also reported a higher rate of erectile dysfunction.

Experts interviewed nearly 10,000 French men and women aged 18 to 69 about their sexual experiences and analyzed the results based on their body mass index.

Obese women were 30 percent less likely than normal-weight women to have had a sexual partner in the last year. In comparison, there was little difference among obese men and normal-weight men as to whether they found a sexual partner.

The results were published online Wednesday in the medical journal BMJ. The study was paid for by several French government agencies.

People with a BMI of 18-24 are considered to have a healthy weight. Those with a BMI of 25 or above are considered overweight and people with a BMI of 30 or more are classified as obese.

Previous studies have found similar trends, but researchers were surprised by the discrepancy they found between the genders as to how excess weight affects peoples' sex lives.

"Maybe women are more tolerant of tubby husbands than men are of tubby wives," said Kaye Wellings, a professor of sexual and reproductive health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and one of the BMJ study authors.

(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...


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To: wardaddy

Black men dig fat chicks. I worked with a black guy years ago. We were both in our 20s, so of course we checked out every female within gazing distance and commented on them. I’d be checking out some black chicks for him, saying “how bout that one?” Too thin, he would say. He liked em “thick.” It’s a great boon for fat white women. They can score decent looking black men, much better looking than the white men they can attain. I figure this is behind the fact that the fat chicks have more “unplanned” pregnancies.


41 posted on 06/16/2010 5:53:57 AM PDT by Huck (Q: How can you tell a party is in the majority? A: They're complaining about the fillibuster.)
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To: TSgt

I’ll bet that’s a diet soda she’s drinking!;-)


42 posted on 06/16/2010 5:54:13 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself...)
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To: Larry Lucido

43 posted on 06/16/2010 6:04:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Don't care if he was born in a manger on July 4th! A "Natural Born" citizen requires two US parents!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

twin air bags


44 posted on 06/16/2010 6:11:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TSgt

I’m on my blackberry. Is that what I think I see?


45 posted on 06/16/2010 6:15:11 AM PDT by goseminoles
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To: wardaddy
and aside from that, many FReepers act like chicks with lots of poundage are best (not my opinion)

They act like that because their wives are seeing what they write :)
46 posted on 06/16/2010 6:21:24 AM PDT by D1X1E (Trust but verify... especially if you got your information from the government.)
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To: Larry Lucido
Ain't that the truth... :)


47 posted on 06/16/2010 6:26:39 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar

It’s been a long time since Hoagy Carmichael’s “Huggin’ a chalkin’” ruled Billboard’s top tunes.

Oh, gee, but ain’t it grand to have a gal so big and fat
That when you go to hug her, you don’t know where you’re at
You have to take a piece of chalk in your hand
And hug a ways and chalk a mark to see where you began

One day I was a-huggin’ and a-chalkin’ and a-chalkin’ and a-huggin’ away
When I met another fella with some chalk in his hand
A-comin’ around the other way
— over the mountain —
A-comin’ around the other way

MP3 here > http://www.getalyric.com/mp3/lyrics/songs/hoagy_carmichael-1454/album_unknown-4552/huggin_and_chalkin-25223/


48 posted on 06/16/2010 6:33:40 AM PDT by Mobties
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To: Abathar
IBTZ!!!
49 posted on 06/16/2010 6:38:25 AM PDT by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: goseminoles

That sir, is a pannus apron.


50 posted on 06/16/2010 6:49:18 AM PDT by John Valentine
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To: Tax-chick

The found partners less often, but when they did, since they hadn’t been expecting to, they weren’t practicing any form of contraception.


51 posted on 06/16/2010 7:11:51 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: Abathar

How do obese people wipe their own rear end? Fit on a toilet? Scratch their back?


52 posted on 06/16/2010 7:11:58 AM PDT by raybbr (Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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To: TSgt

The Diceman's hoggin' pickup line: "Yo! I got fudge!"

53 posted on 06/16/2010 7:16:30 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: goseminoles

To be more precise, it is a Grade 5 Pannus Apron.

It’s something that you don’t get to see too often.


54 posted on 06/16/2010 7:17:54 AM PDT by John Valentine
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To: Tax-chick

It’s amounting to fat women being more fertile when they do find that “catch.”


55 posted on 06/16/2010 7:17:59 AM PDT by JDW11235 (I think I got it now!)
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To: IrishPennant

Details please?


56 posted on 06/16/2010 7:31:59 AM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating Heart)
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To: TSgt

One of my college roommates was like that. The bigger the better...said he liked it that way...


57 posted on 06/16/2010 7:34:13 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: Dexter Morgan

My father-in-law is a truck driver who had a friend that always went after fat chicks. One day he asked him, “With all the beautiful women in the world why do you go after the fat ones?” His friend replied, “sure thing.”


58 posted on 06/16/2010 7:39:09 AM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: TSgt

I’ve always been amazed at the guys who will hump anything. Just doesn’t work for me.


59 posted on 06/16/2010 7:47:26 AM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: John Valentine
It’s something that you don’t get to see too often.

Oh, I've seen it often enough. The same picture, but it's been around more times than I care to see.

60 posted on 06/16/2010 7:51:50 AM PDT by listenhillary (You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
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