Scientists believe they have found why men find the "hourglass" figure the most attractive shape for the female body.
Researchers at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia studied the brain scans of fourteen young men following viewing of nude pictures of women pre and post cosmetic surgery. The surgery was performed to redistribute fat from the women's waist to the buttocks to give them more of an hourglass figure. The operations did not reduce the weight, but merely redistributed it.
Scans of the study subjects revealed that viewing the post-surgery photographs stimulated the same regions of the brain that were activated by rewards, drugs and alcohol.
Steven Platek, an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist (I didn't make that up), said the research may help to explain such social phenomena as sexual harassment and whistling at curvaceous women in the street.
Good to know that science is on the case.
Researchers at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia studied the brain scans of fourteen young men following viewing of nude pictures of women pre and post cosmetic surgery. The surgery was performed to redistribute fat from the women's waist to the buttocks to give them more of an hourglass figure. The operations did not reduce the weight, but merely redistributed it.
Scans of the study subjects revealed that viewing the post-surgery photographs stimulated the same regions of the brain that were activated by rewards, drugs and alcohol.
Steven Platek, an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist (I didn't make that up), said the research may help to explain such social phenomena as sexual harassment and whistling at curvaceous women in the street.
Good to know that science is on the case.
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Love the label.
This article now gives me a reason to tell my son why he should be a scientist when he grows up.
It's a good thing that they showed NUDE pictures, so that the data wasn't confounded by any clothing-associated variables (e.g., pale pink tee vs. leopard-print cami).
I am so pleased to learn that this study was NOT funded by US taxpayers. Let the University of Liverpool and those wacky folks at the Pioneer Fund carry on in the name of science.
I have to wonder whether the findings would have been different if the subjects had been 45 and older...
......one has to wonder PK why you chose "45" and older? :)
It is telling that the only two men who found Olive Oyl attractive were both Sailors. Given that a children's cartoon character couldn't be seen drinking the aperture-opening beverages containing alcohol, to make this believable they had to resort to having characters who spent lengthy periods at sea. Both tend to dampen one's otherwise discerning tastes (or so I hear).
And CW, just about every one of his posts have that label. He's clearly a Chauvinist piGG.
Executive summary of the findings:
"Women's buttocks are terrific things to waist."
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