Feature
- Do You Hate Your Partner, Too?
- California Teen Avoids Heavy Sentencing by Passing the Buck
- Wanna Buy Your Teenager a Padded Push-Up Bra?
- Vampires in Texas!
- These Guys Are As Bad As Westboro Baptist Church
- Funny Letters Sent to Women's Magazines
- Women's Ski Jumping: Still Not a 'Real' Sport
- Will the World Be Pro-Choice Soon?
- Are We Getting Too Lazy to Even Divorce?
- Forever 21's Maternity Line: Glamorizing Teen Pregnancy?
A new study claims that men who ogle curvy women are apt to have the same type of rush as one experiencing the thrill of a drug.
Research shows that the majority of men in the study showed that after viewing nude backsides of a woman, the “reward” sector of their brain fired on up, similarly to when a man uses drugs or alcohol to stimulate his senses.
Psychotherapist Karol Ward said regarding the results of the study:
“Curvy looks in a woman mean that she is good at reproduction, and so the man gets the message that this is someone they could procreate with … The attraction has a lot to do with fertility.”
Sure it does. In an innate way, definitely. But I’m thinking it has more to do with the notion that “curvy” women are simply considered more physically attractive to men than a woman with a figure like, say, a pre-pregnancy Nicole Ritchie, who I love and am not bashing. It’s not like comparing apples to oranges, here. Put a photo of Nicole in her skinny-skinny heyday next to Kim Kardashian and do the math. Whether it has all to do with the instinctual want to reproduce or not, it’s hard to deny certain obvious nuances in the female figure.
You Might Also Like ...
-
-
32
I like curvy hips. They’re niiice…
This thought has just sprung into my head. I think that I have a moderately curvy ass and hips–certainly no Kim Kardashian by any means, but solidly in existence at least. I think my size 5-ish ass on my 5′7.5″ frame looks well balanced, but whenever I mention that my ass is anything other than tiny, my better hip-and-ass endowed friends (who yes, admittedly have a rather larger BMI than I) tend to imply that it’s practically non-existant. Am I reading too much into this, or would is everyone else’s definition of curvy Kim Kardashian and nothing smaller?
To me, ‘curvy’ just suggests curves – a definable waist, and outsweep above and below it. So it’s the ration that matters (.7, historically), not the absolute numbers.
Lately, with the rush of personal ads where women don’t want to call themselves ‘fat’ (when they are), ‘curvy’ has come to be taken as ‘large’. To me, curvy requires multiple curves – not just out and back in.
I’m the exact same way. I’m 5′6.75, and fairly curvy. I have an ample sized ass, but like your friends, mine also tell me it’s non-existant when I’m around them. I’ll say something along the lines of “I don’t know where I got my butt, because neither of my parents have any backside,” and they’ll just start telling me how flat my ass is. I don’t get it. I’ve seen the way my butt looks in tight dresses and pants, and it’s definitely larger than usual. I don’t get why the tell me it’s not. I don’t say “my ass is big” like it’s a bad thing. I love my big butt!
I’m in the ueber-booty club as well. Mine isn’t huge by most standards, but considering that I am 5′2 with teeny boobs, my butt and hips give me a majorly out-of-proportion pear shape. I don’t mind having big hips and thighs…I just wish I had a little more up top to balance them out.
Understandable. My Mom is 5′2. She was very small chested before she decided to get a breast augmentation. She, bless her heart, has absolutely zero curves, aside from her breasts now. No butt. No hips! I have absolutely no idea where my hips came from. Or my breasts. I’m a 36C, with a relatively small waist, and pretty wide hips and large ass. Not enormous, but definitely noticable.
I have really hard time finding jeans that fit because the lower half of my thigh is quite small, but the upper half is much larger, due to my hips (I keep accidentally typing “hops,” haha!). Jeans tend to cut into my stomach and hips and it freaking hurts. I hate pants shopping.
I have big hips and thinner thighs and I’ve had good luck with Mossimo jeans from Target. They have quite a lot of stretch and a comfortable waist band so they fit without digging in anywhere. Most other jeans are so baggy around my thighs because designers don’t expect fat chicks to have slim thighs. I’m wearing Lee jeans right now which are getting a bit too big (just discovered I can pull them off without unbuttoning, yeah!) but they’re seriously baggy around the thighs. I could take out about 3-4″ of material and they’d still be plenty big enough.
Exactly!! I am exactly the same because my parents don’t have a whole lot in the butt-genes department, and since I’m teeny on top my butt looks more curvy by comparison.
I’m not sure what the pictures mean to portray, but I feel like I must note that that’s a truly awful dress on the right. I don’t know why women don’t see themselves better. I think that dress would do great things for the girl on the left (colour aside).
Mermaid-style gives a person huge hips, and is great for helping that illusion in women who are sticks who want to appear curvier. A woman who already has hips really doesn’t need to emphasize them that way.
Haha I know. Hell, my hips aren’t all exactly huge, but I once tried on a mermaid dress in my size and couldn’t manage to get it over my ass.
I have to agree with you, Kai.
Ugly cut, ugly color – and what the hell is going on with that cross halter thing? Ick ick ick.
That dress IS hideous. It does nothing for her and the color totally washes her out. Blah.
I love little baby ducks,yellow pick-up trucks,and women who know how to make me laugh while they make giant gooey pans of lasagna.
I can handle all of your predilections but for the yellow trucks.
Yellow? Seriously?
It’s a deal,please send a picture of the lasagna.
On its way.
(smartass)
So THAT explains why my fiance can’t keep his hands off my ass. Gee, I always wondered.
Haha is that why it is?
The funny thing is just because a woman is curvy does not mean that she is good at reproduction.
Myself, case in point. I am in great shape, but have hips like a boys and size B boobs (on a good day).
Yet I was a baby making machine.
Go figure (yes, that is a pun)
I am hugely overweight – actually found out what I weighed today for the first time since I got pregnant, and discovered I have put on 50 kilos. KILOS – not pounds.
But even though I am a behemouth and make the earth shake with each stride, I dont have any fat rolls, I am literally, like a giant hourglass with a tiny little head on top.
So you can be both fat and curvy. I imagine if you were all blubbery you would be considered just fat but not curvy.
I am not defending being fat by the way – it is reprehensible, and my doctor gave me a comprehensive diet to go on to incorporate breastfeeding and weightloss so I dont keep bugging her every other week.
that’s true – I didn’t mean to suggest that it was impossible. some people carry their weight very well distributed.
But I think you know the sort of pseudo-curvy people I meant to reference.
Your description of your body had me laughing my ass off! Thanks for the laugh! And don’t worry, I’m sure you’re still drop-dead gorgeous. :)
Lady, as long as you feel okay, just be patient. Baby weight does not come off over night.
It will come off eventually, as long as you KEEP eating, but up you activity level.
I cannot stress enough how important it is to keep eating – no wacko starvation diets!
And breastfeed at least 16 months. It was my goal to make it to a year, I got to 18 months before we were both done :) Around the 16 month mark i noticed I was becoming emaciated… haha!
Unless you’re a wacko Hollywoood star or model!!!
Seriously, isn’t it disgusting when some women are in their pre pregnant shape within 6 weeks :)
It’s all the rage to schedule a tummy tuck with the scheduled C-Section. That’s how they do it. And then they can say they just had a C-section, ala octomom. They call it a C-Tuck. And then some have thermage done on the stomache a few weeks after the birth. it’s not just working out and starving. You can always tell by the belly button.
@Jess, what is thermage? (Guess I could have googled it!)
Some women really do just have naturally very resilient bodies. I’ve seen women who don’t look pregnant from the back, who turn around and make your jaw drop, who gained basically just the weight of the baby, and had lost the extra two weeks later.
Yes, there are the Hollywood women who seem to go overboard, and too much pressure for everyone to bounce right back, but like in all things, some people really do work that way naturally.
Thermage is some procedure using heat of some sort that is supposed to repair and make more collagen and allow stretch marks and loose skin to look tighter and younger. The google answer is probably better than mine so feel free! Haha! Celebs get it on their faces too.
I actually just did my fat percentage, which I had never done before – either its a new thing or I have never really thought about it, and mostly due to my little waist, huge butt and man sized wrists I am actually in the ‘acceptable’ range – I am not even obese! And before I got pregnant I was underweight!
Then I did my husband and even though I now weigh more than him, he is obese! It was awesome!
You should all google ‘body fat percentage’! It is a whole new world! Its taking over from BMI!
I thought I was about to keel over after discovering what I weighed – the nurse made me cry at the doctors (bitch, I have post partum depression and some chubby armed cow with a perm makes me feel bad about my weight, Im going to complain about her)
One of the best days of my life occurred while I was in the receiving line at a wedding reception.
An older man started a conversation with me (he was about 5 or 6 people ahead of me) and suddenly asked if I would like to meet his son. I said – “Of course” (anything else would have been rude), and he started to look around for his son.
I need to mention that I was 8 months pregnant with my 2nd child. I was completely baffled by the way this gentleman was acting.
When he did find his son, they walked over towards me and I stepped out of line, extended my hand and said “Very nice to meet you!” Once I was completely visible, I thought the Dad was going to pee his pants on the spot.
Talk about stutter. The son and I howled.
It was awesome. And, I really needed it at that point!
Blurry, How funny! I love when I get up in the am and some cyber friend on this site makes me laugh. That is a priceless memory!
@kai, That’s what I meant when I said how some women are disgusting :) The ones that with out no work at all get back their pre pregnant forms. :)
@Goo, I am so happy for you! We can be so hard on ourselves.
@Jess, no need to google. Thank you.
Have a good day (or night ladies). Time for work UGH!!!!