Why we love female tummies as men :) and the perfect female ratio
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What are the ideal female measurements? 36-24-36. Why are they considered to be the ideal female measurements? It turns out that these numbers are not chosen arbitrarily. There is precise evolutionary logic behind them.
Devendra SinghAn evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas, Devendra Singh, has conducted experiments in different societies to demonstrate that men have a universal preference for low waist-to-hip ratios (the waist measurement divided by the hip measurement). Presented with figure drawings of women identical in every way except the waist-to-hip ratio (varying from .7 to 1.0), most men in Singh’s experiments express preference for women with the waist-to-hip ratio of .7, which is very close to the waist-to-hip ratio of anyone with the 36-24-36 measurement (.67).
Nothing new… We’ve heard for ages how waist-to-hip ratios is an indicator of female fertility and how its very encoded… The following I’ve just found out though:
Why, then, do men want women with low waist-to-hip ratios? Singh argues that this is because healthy women have lower waist-to-hip ratios than unhealthy women. A host of diseases — such as diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and gallbladder disorders — change the distribution of body fat so that sickly women cannot maintain low waist-to-hip ratios. Women with low waist-to-hip ratios are also more fertile; they have an easier time conceiving a child and do so at earlier ages because they have larger amounts of essential reproductive hormones. And, of course, women who are already pregnant with another man’s child cannot maintain a low waist-to-hip ratio.
A woman’s waist-to-hip ratio also fluctuates, albeit very slightly, over the menstrual cycle; it becomes lowest during ovulation, when the woman is fertile. Thus, men are unconsciously seeking healthier and more fertile women when they seek women with small waists.
I didn’t actually know the reasons, except for the hormonal one. I didn’t even think of the pregnancy thing, which just makes so much sense. And the fact that the ratio actually varies in that one same woman, depending on her own, specific fertility part of the month.
And I’ve always wondered why I had been such a tummy-guy… Lol, my eyes just go there, straight there… Like in an instant… They just go there. Like I asses her tummy immediatelly before anything else… and I just sooooo love a nice, tight tummy.
