Men lust for hourglass curves, say researchers
by Jason: MyFreeImplants on March 14th, 2007The psychologists from the University of Texas today publish research showing that lovestruck men have only one thing on their minds: a woman’s WHR – waist-hip ratio, calculated by dividing waist circumference by that of the hips.
Jordan and Twiggy have something in common: both have waists that are noticeably narrower than their hips and Prof Singh has 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 Africa to the Azores.
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 with Dr Peter Renn of Harvard University to show once again that what men find attractive today was also true hundreds of years ago: a narrow waist and thus an hourglass shape.
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March 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am
I remember hearing that Pamela Anderson had her two lower ribs removed so that she had a more defined hour glass figure. Not sure if that was just a rumour though…?