Posted on 02/27/2010 6:51:43 AM PST by mattstat
The headline is “Hourglass Figures Affect Men’s Brains Like a Drug.”
Researchers—that darling, catchall term—conducted a study examining men who were allowed to look at pictures of naked females (from behind) and found that these men liked what they saw.
The joke circulating in commentary on this story is: Who knew? It’s the joke that’s interesting.
One can chuckle in two ways. That any scientist would study such a thing is silly, therefore funny. I have an image of white-frocked geeks measuring the amount of drool from their porn-watching subjects. “An increase of 32.8% as she bends. Success!”
But the second kind of mirth is meant to come from the sophisticates who know we can’t know men like sexy women until it’s studied scientifically. Not knowing before studying is mandated in science. And if you don’t know that, then that’s funny.
Which group has the best laugh?
To know, let’s look closer at the original study.
[R]esearchers had 14 men, average age 25, rate how attractive they found pictures of the naked derrieres of seven women before and after cosmetic surgery that gave them more shapely hips. These operations did not reduce weight but just redistributed it, by implanting fat harvested from the waists into the buttocks.
Brain scans of the men revealed that seeing post-surgery women activated parts of the brain linked with rewards, including regions associated with responses to drugs and alcohol.
That’s doing it the hard way. There are surely easier ways of finding, on the internet, pictures of naked females. Of all shapes, hourglass or not. It might take..
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
Well, DUH!!!!!!
If it’s the ‘’hourglass figure’’ or the ‘’wasp-waist’’ a man hungers for then by all means said man should check out the fashions of the 1950’s. “Foundation wear’’ as it was called. How women got into that stuff is beyond me.
Yep, and in startling news, I polled my wife, and son offa gun, she likes men who look manly. Where’s my grant, so I can publish a paper on this?
Sounds like the research was funded by stimulus money.
Cue Sir Mixalot.
Izzat Sofia?
you must be a youngin
BFLR
NOW THAT”S WHAT I”M TALKIN” “BOUT! YEAH BABY!!
After extensive study and hours or research I have found that most men like T & A. Where is my check?
Raquel Welch! Hubba Hubba!
Now this is classic. Hour-glass bordering on ‘’wasp-waist’’.
Nobody post the Mobama black widow pic!
Actually my interest in Sofia would pre-date Raquel since she (and I) are older.
Either one can peg the yikes meter, however....
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