Playboy girls are losing their curves

The Daily Telegraph ^ | December 20, 2002 | Celia Hall

[MadIvan]

A study of the vital statistics of hundreds of Playboy centrefolds has revealed that female models are becoming less curvaceous.

Researchers in Toronto and Vienna studied 577 consecutive monthly issues of the magazine to compare models' measurements over nearly 50 years.

Playmates have become more boyish or androgynous, with smaller breasts and smaller hips in 2001 compared with 1953. They also weigh less than females in general.

From each model's height, weight, bust, waist and hip measurements the researchers calculated their weight in relation to their height, a waist:hip ratio and a waist:bust ratio they called the "androgyny index".

The bust size and hip size of models generally decreased while the waist size increased, according to the study in today's British Medical Journal.

[mathurine]

This may be better than one for four or three for four or five.

[El Gato]

This is more my style, and my timeframe too.

That's Ann Margret, BTW

[Desdemona]

Well, as one who could never be accused of being a stick and is sitting between a 10 and a 12, may I say I am relieved to read comments such as those posted here.

Thank you gentlemen.

[uncbob]

Ursula Andress was about right
Healthy and athletic looking

Monroe did absolutely nothing for me
Never could understand her appeal

[a_Turk]

Roman godesses underwent similar changes over time.

[vetvetdoug]

Katherine Hepburn in her prime, Barbara Stanwick, and Lucile Ball in the 30's were some of the most beautiful women I have ever seen. It had to be the combination of legs and savvy. My all time favourite was Natalie Wood.

[Buffalo Head]

You truly understand much about men. I suspect that you are far happier with your life than most women.

Regards, Buffalo Head

[Happygal]

Well...I'm not sure I understand much.
But YES...I'm happy with my life, and MY man.

And I hope he's happy with me.
So *L*..I live in utopia, eh? *L* (Hardly, but put it this way, ye'll never see us on Jerry Springer *L*)

[Let's Roll]

omigod, is she ill?

[org.whodat]

NOW that's a hog, wonder what it would dress out????

[Mr. K]

Check out our own Beloved Sno Bunny's profile for one of the most beautiful girls in the world!

Also Victoria Del Sol, and many many others here!

[Frank_2001]

What about Ginger Rogers? Beauty, fantastic legs...and she was a Republican...what more could one ask for?;)

[Frank_2001]

Victoria is magnificent!!!

[reg45]

The other thread on this topic Men lusting for less curves has better pictures.

[conservativemusician]

C'mon man, Monroe in "Some Like it Hot"! She was a knockout.

But you could give me Rita Hayworth anytime!

There's some beautiful women in Hollywood now, but not like the days of old.

Although Ashley Judd in a pinch....

[mikeb704]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with more generously proportioned young ladies. . .

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[bdeaner]

Holy smokes! Somehow that string bikini doesn't seem like it was designed to carry that kind of freight. One false move and it'll all fall out. Not that I'd be complaining or anything.

[Askel5]

Smaller butts are better for the anal sex that's all the rage. (Ask any gay man ... whose sexual aesthetic and practices the heteros are lifting en masse ... including the "right" to have a child whether or not Nature intends you to or not.)

… Profound woman-hatred also informed modernity's ugly, decidedly unwomanly ideal of female beauty: thin, stringy arms and legs; a hard flat abdomen; vestigial breasts.

New York writer Dalma Heyn lauded "the miracle of female bodies; the reproductive significance of those curves and bulges, the sumptuous glory of it all" - and added perceptively that women accepting the starveling boyish ideal suffer from "revulsion at looking female" and "self-loathing," and "battle our own intrinsic femaleness."

If a woman's normal voluptuousness has "reproductive significance" and sumptuous glory," draw your own conclusions about how an ideal of resembling "a well-developed adolescent boy" values life and beauty.

Excerpt from John Attarian's "Women and the Sadean Death Culture" withint Mothers in Combat Boots

[bdeaner]

I think Jennifer Connelly is HOT! But then again, I've always gone for petite, thin women. What can I say? Maybe I'm a product of my generation (born in '70).

[montag813]

Of course this article is correct. You have these anorexic, skanky hoes inflating their breasts, but they still have the skinny white girl butts that make one sick.