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.

[Drew68]

Meg White, drummer for the brother/sister act "The White Stripes."

She's got some damn nice Detroit Rock City curves. I've been a fan ever since I saw the band perform in front of about twelve drunken fools at Denver's 15th Street Tavern about two years ago.

[Little Bill]

Lady Jane

I love you, curves or not, you showed up at a FReep, we have the pics, you can't hide, and were a Lady of the First Water.

[Little Bill]

It is the Red hair and Blue eyes or Dark red and Brown eyes, fierce and demanding, you need spurs, my mother is Black Irish, my Father said that she would have been he best Drill Instructer the Marines ever had, not a damned one of them can cook though.

[DBtoo]

My half Irish friend has hazel eyes and reddish-brown hair. There were lots of Irish kids where I went to high school, and the girls had the most beautiful hair. A lot of them had thick, wavy hair which would make little ringlets around the hairline when the weather was humid. I thought they had the most gorgeous hair. It often had red in it, varying from strawberry blonde to auburn. Mine was blonde and strait and not too thin, but I really admired their hair and wished mine had been so thick and wavy and I loved those ringlets. BTW, what is black Irish? I've heard that expression before and wondered who and what they are.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I was wondering whether Cori Nadine is a porn actress.

I'd call her a pin-up model, not a pornsterette.

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[archy]

C'mon...you can't fool me...that's not you. It's John Kerry.

I would far, far prefer to resemble the visiage of Boris Karloff [William Henry Pratt] than that of John Kerry. Anyday.

A few years back, I had the opportunity to appear in a couple of local theater group stage productions, including William Inge's Bus Stop in which I had the part of Carl, the cranky bus driver, and Arsenic and Old Lace in which I had the role of quirky *Cousin [*I must help Ferdinand Lessips finish the Panama Canal!*]Teddy* Theodore Brewster. But the part I really hungered for was that of menacing Jonathan Brewster, played by Raymond Massey in the 1944 film version of Joseph Kesselring's screenplay, who delivered the line that only Karloff could get away with:

I had to kill him...he said I looked like Boris Karloff

[archy]

Huge bags of chemicals placed under the skin are just gross.

But they can indeed be a lifesaver....

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FYI:) Happy New Years!