Men really do prefer thin women
by Kyle Hepp (Subscribe to Kyle Hepp's posts), Posted Feb 20th 2008 at 7:22PMThis is a post
For a long time now there has been a problem in the fashion industry with clothes that are too tiny, being worn by models that are too thin, walking down runways that are probably too small. This, in turn, has affected the average celebrity who now also feels the need to wear a size zero in order to fit into designer sample clothing. And that has now changed the way we regular women feel about ourselves as well. The pressure from society and the media to be smaller and smaller is more intense than ever!But, one thing has remained constant in during the thin is in era. Normal men have professed their love for normal size women. Polls are always coming out claiming that men prefer real women with curves, or that guys like a girl with a little meat on her bones.
Not so, says Amanda Fortini, in this month's Elle Magazine. At 5'6" she actually got down to about 100 pounds, and says that men were actually much more into her at that weight. I was actually shocked to hear what she had to say about her experience as a super thin waif of a woman. Amanda wrote, "Many men, I quickly learned, really do like frighteningly lean women, whatever they may claim to the controversy. As an average, medium-size young woman, I was unremarkable, innocuous. As a skinny slip of a thing, I was something of a sensation. In restaurants and at parties, men flirted at me extravagantly...As a male friend once put it to me, semifacetiously, 'A little anorexia is hot.'"
Turns out that Amanda actually had a tropical parasite in her intestines, digesting her food for her. Hmm, are parasites the new binge and purge?
Anyways, men, I'd love to hear what you think. Is it true that someone who looks a little anorexic is hot? Be honest!
Via Big Fat Deal.
Tom 4-02-2008 @ 12:09PM
If you ask me, I will have to completely disagree that men find women who look anorexic hot. The models who come up on FTV who look dry like a stick cannot turn me on even if they were not wearing anything. A woman's body is defined by her curves. More importantly the waist to hip ratio. Bigger hips and a narrow waist, that is what men like and I can say this with utmost certainty. The following article clearly defines that
http://www.whatdomenreallythink.com/howto/women-with-curves.php
The waist to hip ratio clearly is the most important factor that makes a man go gaga over a woman. Why do you think men love JLO or Shakira or Beyonce? You name it.
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Sara 4-09-2008 @ 8:52AM
It is really irritating that women are constantly battling which is better, thin or not? I am a tall and very thin woman (with a hip to waist ratio!), naturally! I am so sick of women who aren't thin ripping apart women who are and vise versa. According to things I've read, thin women are "stick figures," "boyish," et cetera. That is simply not true, and I assume the people who would say such things are struggling with extreme insecurity and have a vast number of issues. Being thin is not being bulemic or anorexic. Why can't it just be that we are accepted the way we are? My whole life I have been under the normal weight and people feel the need to comment on it whenever they want. It's rude. I can't change my weight no matter how much I eat, and I shouldn't have to in order to fit into someone else's standards of what's "healthy." I would never in a million years take it upon myself to comment on a larger woman's size so what gives someone else the right to do it to me or to anyone else. Fact is, opinions vary from person to person. Some prefer thin, some prefer average, some prefer large. That doesn't mean the men in general prefer one over the other. The point being, we should just be able to be who we are without judgement. I'd love to see how men would feel if women started tearing apart thier body types. My guess is, it wouldn't feel to good to them.
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Bizzunky 4-13-2008 @ 6:58PM
I have to agree that super skinny is super hot.
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thinisgood 5-01-2008 @ 10:45PM
Thin and lean is definitely hot. Lean women with no excess fat or blubber hanging out is an amazing turn-on. To ME. And there are plenty of other men that think the same. There are other men that DON'T like women to be as thin and actually DO like women to have some excess fat or blubber hanging out. THAT is exactly how it should be, otherwise, how do BOTH the very thin AND fatter women get loved?
When fat women criticize skinny women, MOST people think of the fat woman is jealous of the thin woman. When skinny women criticize fat women, it just seems mean. In reality, FAT women criticize SKINNY women MUCH more often than skinny women criticize fat women, and that is just stupid!
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bob fairlane 2-07-2010 @ 5:18PM
I am a slim, athletic man. I appreciate women of a variety of natural features, but I am of course always drawn to a slender, fit woman. I don't think "anorexia is hot" at all. That disgusts me as much as women with "gunts" and spare tires stuck around their middle like some unfortunate accident with a flotation device.
I do like "skinny" women, if they are that way naturally (light framed women with long legs and arms), and have healthy faces and good skin tone. Women who starve themselves or throw up to be "skinny" will never have that charm.
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