Evolution May Explain Why a Curvy Bottom Drives Men Wild
HealthDay | Robert Preidt
1 day ago
MONDAY, March 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Men are naturally drawn to a woman with a curvy backside, a new report suggests.
The "theoretically optimal angle" is a 45.5-degree curve from back to buttocks -- not necessarily a big butt, the University of Texas at Austin researchers determined.
These curvaceous gals would have had an evolutionary advantage, in that they appeared able to bear multiple children easily, the researchers said.
"This spinal structure would have enabled pregnant women to balance their weight over the hips," said study leader David Lewis, a UT Austin alumnus and now a psychologist at Bilkent University in Turkey.
"These women would have been more effective at foraging during pregnancy and less likely to suffer spinal injuries," he said in a UT Austin news release. "In turn, men who preferred these women would have had mates who were better able to provide for fetus and offspring, and who would have been able to carry out multiple pregnancies without injury."
This preference evolved over thousands of years and is likely to persist for a long time, the researchers noted.
Their conclusions came from a two-part study in which 100 men were asked to look at images of women and rate their attractiveness. Women with a 45.5-degree in the lower back were rated as most appealing. The researchers next determined from a group of 200 men that guys preferred this degree of lower back curvature regardless of a woman's butt size.
Words alone cannot describe my disappointment that there weren't more example pictures at the link to help me judge the accuracy of the premise.
========================================================================================== By the way, I'm growing rather weary of the cheap comparisons of Obama with Neville Chamberlain. The British Prime Minister got the biggest issue of the day wrong. But no one ever doubted that he loved his country. That's why, after his eviction from Downing Street, Churchill kept him on in his ministry as Lord President of the Council, and indeed made Chamberlain part of the five-man war cabinet and had him chair it during his frequent absences.
When he [Chamberlain} died of cancer in October 1940, Churchill wept over his coffin.
So please don't insult Neville Chamberlain by comparing him to Obama. -- Mark Steyn"
Ain't science grand and, gosh, it's simply wondrous how evolution explains everything, just everything. It's totally remarkable how these researchers can go from men's preferred female butt size to "These women would have been more effective at foraging during pregnancy and less likely to suffer spinal injuries," he said in a UT Austin news release. "In turn, men who preferred these women would have had mates who were better able to provide for fetus and offspring, and who would have been able to carry out multiple pregnancies without injury."
Uh huh. I'm convinced.
"I like big butts and I can not lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face You get sprung Wanna pull up tough Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed Deep in the jeans she's wearing I'm hooked and I can't stop staring"
"This is the most lavishly funded and entirely moronic foreign ministry on the planet."~~Mark Steyn's description of the US State Dept.
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #5"Their conclusions came from a two-part study..."
Ain't science grand and, gosh, it's simply wondrous how evolution explains everything, just everything. It's totally remarkable how these researchers can go from men's preferred female butt size to "These women would have been more effective at foraging during pregnancy and less likely to suffer spinal injuries," he said in a UT Austin news release. "In turn, men who preferred these women would have had mates who were better able to provide for fetus and offspring, and who would have been able to carry out multiple pregnancies without injury."
Uh huh. I'm convinced.
"I like big butts and I can not lie You other brothers can't deny That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face You get sprung Wanna pull up tough Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed Deep in the jeans she's wearing I'm hooked and I can't stop staring"
Cue "Fat bottomed Girls"[?] by Queen
B. Obama: "Swords don't kill people. Only Crusaders kill people".
So I note all the comments on this thread come from males. That makes me suspect the women on here are laughing, rolling their eyes, and thinking, "men!"
"This is the most lavishly funded and entirely moronic foreign ministry on the planet."~~Mark Steyn's description of the US State Dept.
Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #7So I note all the comments on this thread come from males. That makes me suspect the women on here are laughing, rolling their eyes, and thinking, "men!"
Not at all, Cincy !! Women know .......it's all about the bass !!
Quote: Sanguine wrote in post #10W, that was a good opening salvo, but I'm afraid Cincy pulled ahead with that one. (no puns intended, implied or otherwise expressed)
Sanguine, on behalf of the ladies here, I feel as if it my duty to present a study conducted by Women on the topic .....