Survey finds: Men with skinny wives/girlfriends more likely to stray

New.Com.AU ^ | May 14, 2004 | staff writer

[yankeedame]

Curves are for keeps

May 14, 2004

MEN are more likely to stray if their partners are slim, a survey has found.

Men with skinny wives and girlfriends could be interested in appearance alone - and on the lookout for someone even more attractive.

In contrast, seven in 10 faithful men prefer their women size 16 or over.

The revelations will be little comfort to Victoria Beckham amid claims her husband David had an affair. The former Spice Girl, who captivated the footballer with her curves, has become much thinner since they married.

Nearly half of more than 1200 men questioned in the survey admitted cheating. Most of those had slim partners.

Sixty-four per cent of men with a partner under size 12 confessed to straying compared with 20 per cent of men with partners above size 12.

Seven in 10 of those with slim partners also said their lovers were too worried about appearance to enjoy sex. Eight out of 10 of those dating cuddlier companions said their love lives were "fantastic and uninhibited".

The Daily Telegraph

[SauronOfMordor]

If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife
'Cause from my personal point of view
Get an ugly girl to marry you...

Reminds me of an old Abbot & Costello skit:

Costello: If I get married, I'm gonna marry an ugly girl

Abbot: Why?

Costello: Because a pretty gitl might leave me

Abbot: An ugly girl might leave you too

Costello: Yeah, but who cares?

[wimpycat]

Sex hormones are stored in fat....

I never knew THAT!!!

I didn't either, but it makes sense. It would explain why many female marathon runners and anorexics don't menstruate regularly, or at all. Also, I read where Corrie ten Boom said she didn't know of one fellow inmate of the concentration camps she was in who menstruated. 'Cos they were starved, as well as mentally & physically traumatized.

[Gabz]

I'll see your beer, and raise you one!

Now, I'll go get another.

[SauronOfMordor]

I noticed that the skinniest women were the ones who wanted the least sex and complained about their husbands "demands" on them for sex. The heavier women were more interested in sex.

From the male perspective, an average-looking woman with a high libido is a much better deal than a beautiful "ice maiden". A guy who isn't getting much at home is much more likely to satisfy his needs elsewhere than a guy who is kept happy at home

[NYC GOP Chick]

You must not have been retaining water at the time. I haven't weighed myself in a long time (I'm too scared to look at the scale these days), but when I used to weigh myself regularly, my weight would fluctuate the same 5-7 pounds over the course of the month. It was all water retention.

Nope. My weight, as measured on the scale, has been essentially the same for the past 6 weeks or so, but at least 2 people have told me in the last week that I look thinner. One is my Pilates teacher, who specifically pointed to my face being more defined and my torso narrower.

As I said earlier, it's a matter of losing fat and gaining muscle.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I only seem to retain beer.

You must get quite touchy when it's that time of the month... ;)

[NYC GOP Chick]

I don't know exactly how tall she was (5'5" or 5'6"), but I've heard Marilyn Monroe was about a size 12.

Sizes were very different back then. These days, she'd probably be an 8 or so.

[CurlyBill]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Are they trying to say that men who have pretty women as wives do so based on looks and have little problem in repeating their behavior when they find other women who have that same trait?

Well, sort of. Maybe the men with the larger wives know that nookie is a twice a week thing but a good meal is a three times a day thing.

[proust]

Men with skinny wives/girlfriends more likely to stray

Of course. It's simple physics: fat chicks exert greater gravitational pull, making it more difficult for guys to escape to cheat on them.

[NYC GOP Chick]

OMG! I can't believe you haven't made it to this thread yet!

[cyborg]

I'm getting up the courage to drive to JFK airport in the fog and am a bit distracted *lol*

[null and void]

Hi there! *waving*

[null and void]

I only seem to retain beer.

Beer is never bought, only rented...

[BriarBey]

Think about it...how put off are you buying something when you see it is not the size you would like to be in. Its phycological and they are playing on it.

[tubebender]

My First Wife bought me one of those pedestal gas grills at Costco for my birthday today. (to go with the new deck) It looks like a Geo Foreman grill on a stainless steel stand...

[RightOnline]

I dunno............married to a thin, 6' blonde. Hair past her behind. Gorgeous. VERY thin, yet cooks like a demon......and I should weigh 500 pounds. I lucked out, I know......................and by the way, she still looks like that after seven kids. Seven. And in her mid 40's.

[glock rocks]

I was thinking along these lines... BBQ at 75mph, on the way to the track.