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.
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Moped theory still applies
obese women had more trouble finding a sexual partner than their normal-weight counterparts ... and were four times as likely to have an unplanned pregnancy
Excuse me? How did they get pregnant without a sexual partner? Some bizarre version of cell fission?
Fat chicks arn’t easy?
Sometiems obese women have all the luck
What’s the Moped Theory?
Obese women have a hard time finding a sexual partner??
Who’d a thunk it?
I agree about the captain obvious pic.
WHO would pay for this research? ... to find out that “obese women had more trouble finding a sexual partner than their normal-weight counterparts”?
Q: Why are Fat Women like Motor Scooters?(Bada-Bing! Rim-shot.)A: They're both fun to ride, but you don't want your friends to see you on one.
I think the implication is that because they have more difficulty finding people to boff, that when they do succeed, they are less willing to insist upon precautions against pregnancy, lest doing so costs them the intimacy altogether.
Mopeds are like fat women, a lot of fun to ride, but don’t let your friends catch you doing it.
Fun to ride, but you don’t want your friends to see you.
Has the author never been to a Wal-Mart/Family Dollar/Dollar General store or a Country & Western bar? I see tons (pun intended) of overweight & obese ladies pushing strollers and shopping carts with babies in them.
Oops, can’t see my feet and can’t see woody.
See my Post #9 :-)
Seriously man, I just ate breakfast... :(
:)
that is completely untrue in Nashville metro....any corpulent woman who wants can have a sire(not marriage)....the breakdown of race taboo opened doors for very fat white gals previously closed
and aside from that, many FReepers act like chicks with lots of poundage are best (not my opinion)
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