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A curvy body's like a drug to men
A curvy body's like a drug to men
An hourglass figure activates the reward center in his brain
By Charles Q. Choi
LiveScience
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.
A curvy body's like a drug to men, study reveals - Health - Skin and beauty - msnbc.com
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I'd rate her up there with heroin on the drug scale?
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Looks like more fun than any drug I've ever done.
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Oh yeah. thats what I like
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I'm an addict and I do other drugs too....
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
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Who Da Kine? (She's Da Kine) Originally Posted by maniclion
Or something like that...Last edited by MDR; 11-13-2010 at 04:07 PM.
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she's a twin too!!! Originally Posted by min0 lee
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11-13-2010, 10:43 PM #12primeau
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pretty sure it is a drug to me...and I'm pretty sure we need to hijack this thread with nothing but hourglass shaped pics
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On it! Originally Posted by lnvanry
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^^^^Oh, YEAH!
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That is straight-up gross. I'd probably pass her to Curt James or Saney. Originally Posted by min0 lee
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She would make a good Olive Oil, though!
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^^^LOL This!
And thanks so much vortrit!
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Christina is the most beautiful woman in the world to me. I remember when I saw her in Firefly, which at the time I had never heard of her before. She goes beyond sexy to a realm of absolute beauty. I rarely say that anymore. Most attractive women are just hot bitches, but Christina is something more. Originally Posted by Curt James
^^^^Oh, YEAH!
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That made me so high my dick raised 6 inches..... Originally Posted by Curt James
^^^^Oh, YEAH!
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
not yet plucked as to slacken the seams
and drag down the features of age,
no folds or creases from unkempt wear
eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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Translated "That is straight-up gross. I'd pass her and do Curt James or Saney instead. Originally Posted by vortrit
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I'd buy her some food. Thanks to Mino for all the rest of the photos. Very feminine and beautiful women. Curves are sexy as hell. Originally Posted by vortrit
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Yeah right... NOT! Originally Posted by min0 lee
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The resolution is near perfect on my system so I see what you did you sly dog.... Originally Posted by vortrit
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
not yet plucked as to slacken the seams
and drag down the features of age,
no folds or creases from unkempt wear
eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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Nice work Manic, I completely missed that, but completely belive it
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Redhead............ check
Pale skin............ check
Beautiful Smile.... check
Think body......... check
Huston, we have a boner!“I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”
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Betty Brosmer AKA Ms. Weider
This video shows off Betty's incredible and NATURAL 38-18-36 figure:
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I like a little more natural like Selma Hayek, Halle Barry, or Beyonce, or the younger Kardashian who married that douche nozzle who can't handle his miami nose candy......
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
not yet plucked as to slacken the seams
and drag down the features of age,
no folds or creases from unkempt wear
eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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Love those old time girly pix. They just seem a bit more tasteful.
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