A curvy woman's like a drug to men

[teedubya]

A curvy body's like a drug to men
An hourglass figure activates the reward center in his brain

Watching a curvaceous woman can feel like a reward in the brain of men, much as drinking alcohol or taking drugs might, research now reveals.

These new findings might help explain the preoccupation men can have toward pornography, scientists added. Shapely hips in women are linked with fertility and overall health. As such, it makes sense evolutionarily speaking that studies across cultures have shown men typically find hourglass figures sexy.

To explore the roots of this behavior, researchers had 14 men, average age 25, rate how attractive they found pictures of the naked derrieres of seven women before and after cosmetic surgery that gave them more shapely hips. These operations did not reduce weight but just redistributed it, by implanting fat harvested from the waists into the buttocks.


Brain scans of the men revealed that seeing post-surgery women activated parts of the brain linked with rewards, including regions associated with responses to drugs and alcohol.

It might not be especially surprising that evolution wired the male brain to find attractive bodies rewarding.

"Hugh Hefner could have told us that by showing us how many zeroes are in his bank account," said researcher Steven Platek, an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. "But there's more to it than buying Playboy, Maxim, or FHM."

For instance, "these findings could help further our understanding pornography addiction and related disorders, such as erectile dysfunction in the absence of pornography," he explained. "These findings could also lend to the scientific inquiry about sexual infidelity."

The scientists also found that changes in a woman's body-mass index or BMI — a common measure of body fat — only really affected brain areas linked to simple visual evaluations of size and shape. This may be evidence that body fat influences judgments of female beauty due more to societal norms than brain wiring.

"The media portrays women as wholly too skinny," Platek said. "It's not just about body fat, or body mass index."

What do women think?

Future research could also investigate the effects that attractive figures have on the female brain.

"It turns out women find similar optimally attractive female bodies as attention-grabbing, albeit for different reasons," Platek said. "Women size up other women in an effort to determine their own relative attractiveness and to maintain mate guarding — or, in other words, keep their mate away from optimally designed females."

These findings should not be construed as saying that men are solely programmed by their biology, nor that "women without optimal design should just hang up their mating towel," Platek added.

Platek and his colleague Devendra Singh detailed their findings online Feb. 5 in the journal PLoS ONE.

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[JOhn]

Yea I think this has been pretty well known for years.....


Just sayin :D

Better yet do you have anymore startling observations, Captain Obvious?





:D
j/k

[DaneMcCloud]

Tits and ass are good

[Priest31kc]

What about gay men?

[FAX]

In all seriousness, it is interesting how the female form hold such boundless fascination.

The curve of a woman's hip, the silkiness of her skin, the way the morning sun causes the flat of her belly to gently glow ... these are things of spellbinding enchantment that captivate and hypnotize.

It's too bad they cost money.

FAX

[Silock]

The curve of a woman's hip, the silkiness of her skin, the way the morning sun causes the flat of her belly to gently glow ... these are things of spellbinding enchantment that captivate and hypnotize.

Don't stop now... I'm almost there.

[Saccopoo]

Seriously. Did you spend that much time typing that? That hot, curvy women are appealing to men? Wow. You are like fucking Nostradamus.

Could you please give me the seven numbers for the next Powerball so I can get my ex-wife off my ass?

[JOhn]

Could you please give me the seven numbers for the next Powerball so I can get my ex-wife off my ass?

ROFLROFL

[tyton75]

Don't stop now... I'm almost there.

lmao

[eazyb81]

So what does this mean for men that prefer skinny stick-figure women w/ no curves?

Closet fairies?

[MGRS13]

Thread-worthless-without-pics.

[loochy]

Seriously. Did you spend that much time typing that? That hot, curvy women are appealing to men? Wow. You are like fucking Nostradamus.

Could you please give me the seven numbers for the next Powerball so I can get my ex-wife off my ass?

Well, it looks like a cut and paste job so don't worry.

[Lumpy]

So what does it mean for men that prefer skinny women w/ an average-sized rack and a huge ghetto booty?

[DMAC]

Thread-worthless-without-pics.http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=133697&highlight=cute

[loochy]

Well, it must be true. Look at what John Mayer said about Jessica Simpson:

That girl is like crack cocaine to me... And drugs aren’t good for you if you do lots of them. Sexually it was crazy. . . It was like napalm, sexual napalm. Did you ever say, 'I want to quit my life and just f***in' snort you? If you charged me $10,000 to f*** you, I would start selling all my s*** just to keep f***ing you.'

[Rain Man]

Why can't I get these federal grants?

[soopamanluva]

I agree. When I see someone like her, I definately feel high

[loochy]

I agree. When I see someone like her, I definately feel high

I'm not really diggin that. The top half of her is lookin good, but the legs don't match. It makes me feel drunk, not high. And its the bad kind of drunk - like when you've had waaay too much and you are starting to come down from your drunkenness and you feel super sick.

[soopamanluva]

I'm not really diggin that. The top half of her is lookin good, but the legs don't match. It makes me feel drunk, not high. And its the bad kind of drunk - like when you've had waaay too much and you are starting to come down from your drunkenness and you feel super sick.

To each his own. A thick chick is sexy

[Skyy God]

Well, it looks like a cut and paste job so don't worry.

Mr. Fax is no plagiarizer, n00b.

[loochy]

Mr. Fax is no plagiarizer, n00b.

It's not plagarized because it says © 2010 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved.
at the bottom!

[Jilly]

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[soopamanluva]

She's sexy too

[Garcia Bronco]

To each his own. A thick chick is sexy

Thicker, but not thick for me. I used to date this semi-underwear model and it was like sleeping with a razor blade.

[teedubya]

http://www.naughty.com/news/Megan_Fox/Sexiest_Woman_in_the_World/images/Megan_Fox_Hot_Curves_photography.jpg

[philfree]

A woman's like a drug to men

Fixed it.


PhilFree:arrow:

[Silock]

Thicker, but not thick for me. I used to date this semi-underwear model and it was like sleeping with a razor blade.

Some emo dude just jizzed in his pants.

[FAX]

The Arrival Of Big Butt Girl

By FAX

Hide the chairs, nail your bagels down
'Cause Big Butt Girl's coming to town
She'll eat your breakfast, she'll eat your lunch
She'll drink your beer and your fruit punch

She'll leave your kitchen like Chernobyl
She'll then become almost immobile
So, if I were you, I'd burn the sofa
'Cause Big Butt Girl's a lazy loafa

There'll be nothing left, not even beans
Then she'll try on your best jeans
And if they fit, they'll be gone too
And stained with chocolate and fondue

Yeah, Big Butt Girl just sleep and eat
Pass her gas and then excrete
Giant turds that clog your plumbing
So look out, dude, Big Butt Girl's coming

FAX

[teedubya]

way to kill everyone's wood, FAX. jeesh.

[FAX]

Aw, c'mon.

Nobody's getting all wooded up over a big butt girl anyhow, are they? Big butt girls are anathema to a man of culture and good taste.

FAX

[teedubya]

Fat Bottoms girls make the rockin world go 'round, they say.

[FAX]

Fat Bottoms girls make the rockin world go 'round, they say.

That's just a saying, Mr. Ari Chi3fs. Big butt girls always wind up at the back of the line in real life. A big butt girl might be chosen when all else fails, but that's about it. If you're a big butt girl, you'd better have a damn nice personality. And a lot of money and drugs.

FAX

[BWillie]

I'll take a skinny chick over a fat chick any day. Though I don't think by curves, they mean "fat" or "overweight".

[FAX]

I'll take a skinny chick over a fat chick any day. Though I don't think by curves, they mean "fat" or "overweight".

Curves are good. No question about it. In fact, I prefer women who are proportional and feature that famous, fabulous, female figure. But, as I mentioned, a big butt girl is something else entirely. It takes a significant amount of alcohol to find yourself interested in a big butt girl.

It's like that old Belgium proverb: "When the butt is big, take another swig."

FAX

[JohnnyV13]

I think what they mean is Waist to Hip ratio. A number of other studies have found that males are consistently attracted to women with a W/H ratio of .7-.75, even with wildly different degrees of female body mass.

For example both Twiggy and Marilyn Monroe had W/H ratios between .7 and .75.

[RJ]

I think what they mean is Waist to Hip ratio. A number of other studies have found that males are consistently attracted to women with a W/H ratio of .7-.75, even with wildly different degrees of female body mass.

For example both Twiggy and Marilyn Monroe had W/H ratios between .7 and .75.



Which is why I always took along a tape measure to the bar in my younger days. No way I wanted to find myself in bed the next morning with a .85.

Admittedly, the more I drank the less accurately I'd measure.

[JohnnyV13]

Which is why I always took along a tape measure to the bar in my younger days. No way I wanted to find myself in bed the next morning with a .85.

Admittedly, the more I drank the less accurately I'd measure.

No, that's why your bleery eyes checked out the asses of chicks and said, DAMN....that's one's got a nice ass. Course, when you got too drunk, you couldn't really tell.

[RJ]

No, that's why your bleery eyes checked out the asses of chicks and said, DAMN....that's one's got a nice ass. Course, when you got too drunk, you couldn't really tell.


Thus the term, "eyeball it".

[BucEyedPea]

In all seriousness, it is interesting how the female form hold such boundless fascination.

The curve of a woman's hip, the silkiness of her skin, the way the morning sun causes the flat of her belly to gently glow ... these are things of spellbinding enchantment that captivate and hypnotize.

It's too bad they cost money.

FAX

Contrary to conventional wisdom—the BEST things in life aren't FREE! :D

[MahiMike]

Hip surgery? Didn't know that.

[Stewie]

The curvier the better imo. If there are a few extra pounds involved that's OK by me.