Posted on 12/19/2002 5:49:58 PM PST by 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.
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Like an Austrian pencil-neck and a Canadian feminist broad, publishing in a British medical journal, would have any clue what actual men find attractive.
Homer Simpson? Is that you???
Hmm. Seems like their 'study' is sorta flawed. Just because Playboy put them in the mag, doesn't necessarily mean that they're what men wanted.
Yah, curves and breasts for me pls!
Depends, is it a Jenny Craig cookie? Is it made by elves? Is it full of chocolate chunks?
And more importantly, are you willing to share your cookies?
I guessed right! She was a babe before she went off on her animal-rights crusade.
...and I'll take seconds.
Elaine Devry was the BEST!!!
In modern erotica (okay, PORN) most of the starlets (not that ANY FReeper men would EVER watch any such movies or videos...) are, in fact, quite curvy and voluptuous, even to the point of surgically enhancing those features. Remember, these women, more than perhaps any other, earn a living by being the objects of male sexual fantasies and desires. They would NOT seek to look like something men would find unnatractive.
Contrast this with the alleged "supermodels". Most fashion models are taller, thinner, and bonier than most porn actresses. Many do, in fact, resemble heroin addicts. A simple image search on Google revealed these contrasts, in graphic detail.
Point is, (with Playboy being the notable exception), modern men DO prefer the voluptuous look, at least if their preference in sexually stimulating imagery is any guide. Why MODELS, on the other hand, are skewed towards the "gaunt, waif" look probably DOES have more to do with the preference of the clothing designers they work for than previously thought.
BTW, a quick look at a few recent copies of Playboy (in the interest of science, of course) reveals that whilst their models have slimmed down some, few would ever be seen on a high-fashion runway even now.
Simply put, a woman with some curves looks HEALTHY and FERTILE, qualities which have for the breadth of human history have been sexual triggers for men. The supermodels, by contrast, look SICK and WEAK, historical repulsors for mate-seeking males.
Just the two bits worth from a normal, healthy American man.
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