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Men Lust For Hourglass Curves, Say Researchers
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-9-2007 | Roger Highfield

Posted on 01/09/2007 5:53:04 PM PST by blam

Men lust for hourglass curves, say researchers

By Roger Highfield Science Editor
Last Updated: 11:14pm GMT 09/01/2007

The traditional theory of beauty says that for every man who chases the voluptuous type, such as Jordan or Marilyn Monroe, there is another who prefers to woo a waif such as Twiggy or Kate Moss.

But this and the idea that beauty is subjective and ever-changing has been overturned by Prof Devendra Singh and his daughter Adrian Singh.

The psychologists from the University of Texas today publish research showing lovestruck men have only one thing on their minds: a woman's WHR - waist-hip ratio, calculated by dividing waist circumference by that of her hips. Prof Singh found evidence this "belle curve" is ingrained in the male brain in his studies of Playboy centrefolds, the ancient Egyptians and tests on men from different cultures.

Today, in the Royal Society journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, they analyse thousands of examples of British literature from the 16th to 18th Centuries to show that men found the same things attractive then as today: a narrow waist and an hourglass shape.

"There were 66 romantic descriptions of waist in these three centuries, and every one of them referred to a narrow waist," said Prof Singh.


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KEYWORDS: babygotback; broadsohyeah; curves; embiggened; hourglass; ifugotthecurves; igottheangles; ilikebigbutts; lust; men; single; sirmixalot; thick; yeahbaby
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To: Frwy

The definition of "lust" here is simply attraction, I think.


41 posted on 01/09/2007 6:22:54 PM PST by RockinRight (To compare Congress to drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors. - Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: blam

"there is another who prefers to woo a waif such as Twiggy or Kate Moss."





I have never heard a man mention them or their type as figures of lust.


42 posted on 01/09/2007 6:22:55 PM PST by ansel12 (America, love it ,or at least give up your home citizenship before accepting ours too.)
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To: passionfruit
I must research your endorphin stimulus

Maybe tonight
43 posted on 01/09/2007 6:23:13 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: blam
The psychologists from the University of Texas ...

Tax dollars at work...

44 posted on 01/09/2007 6:23:16 PM PST by CedarDave
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Geraldo said on HC tonight that Uday and Qusay died as heros, honorably. WTF? And Sean didn't call him on it. WTF? I wasted the last 6 years giving SH 3 hours a day and 2 hours on Fox and he lets this Geraldo slide on these comments????

Sean you lost a listner/watcher tonight. I know have seen the light, you are nothing but a repub hack. Searn, where is your honor?

ps. This is not a hit piece on Sean Hannity, but this guy is losing everything that he built up on his continued support of his political buddies.

Bye Sean. Goodluck.


45 posted on 01/09/2007 6:23:42 PM PST by VastRWCon
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To: Aikonaa

Read my post 39


46 posted on 01/09/2007 6:23:49 PM PST by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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To: fr_freak

Read my post 39


47 posted on 01/09/2007 6:24:19 PM PST by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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To: Malichi

Man, she gonna have the chiggers something awful.


48 posted on 01/09/2007 6:25:52 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: Cicero

***Yes, I have to agree that Twiggy doesn't have a lot of sex appeal.***

This reminds me of the old LI'L ABNER comic strip of that time in which a model named Icky is visiting Dogpach. The men get sick just looking at her, till Mammy Yokum feeds her up for two weeks, then she looks great but looses her modeling contract.


49 posted on 01/09/2007 6:25:52 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mr J

Okay, I'm guilty.... add black thigh high stockings and heels to the mix, I'm then hooked. Hmmmm... Kim Novak, "Strangers when we meet".


50 posted on 01/09/2007 6:26:19 PM PST by Capt_Hank (btu's...kcal's...to kJ's, but my activation energy is still high.)
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To: Frwy
Some men don't lust at all. Most of them are called Christians.

I'll take your word for that, but all of them are called eunuchs.

51 posted on 01/09/2007 6:26:19 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Pharmboy

how old is that?


52 posted on 01/09/2007 6:26:22 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Conversation? What's that?

It's when a woman talks, and talks, and talks, and a man pretends to listen.

At least I think that's what my ex said...

53 posted on 01/09/2007 6:26:35 PM PST by null and void (Propaganda doesn't have to make sense. Hell, it often works better if it doesn't.)
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To: blam
...psychologists from the University of Texas today publish research showing lovestruck men have only one thing on their minds: a woman's WHR - waist-hip ratio, calculated by dividing waist circumference by that of her hips.

Yeah, if you're a nerd.

54 posted on 01/09/2007 6:27:39 PM PST by GOP_Raider (Arthur, we hardly knew ye!)
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To: Mr J
What? They needed research to answer such a question? They must be liberal socialist researchers.

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55 posted on 01/09/2007 6:28:02 PM PST by Candor7 (The hope of the West disappears into liberal flatulance, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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To: blam
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...women notice waists, too....

56 posted on 01/09/2007 6:28:52 PM PST by paulat
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To: Tijeras_Slim; martin_fierro; elkfersupper

Ping to the usual suspects...


57 posted on 01/09/2007 6:29:17 PM PST by CedarDave
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To: lepton

Some things live forever...


58 posted on 01/09/2007 6:29:22 PM PST by Pharmboy ([She turned me into a] Newt! in '08)
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To: Paddlefish

Read my post 39


59 posted on 01/09/2007 6:29:42 PM PST by Frwy (Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
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To: driftdiver
In Korea , men are free from rust.
60 posted on 01/09/2007 6:30:35 PM PST by Candor7 (The hope of the West disappears into liberal flatulance, and who wants to be a smart feller?)
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