>  In a social psychology class I took, we were shown that men prefer
> women with a .7 waist to hip ratio (don't have the paperwork available right
> this minute, but I also saw this on an educational tv show the other night).
> Even men from a culture that had NO television still chose the picture of the
> woman with this same waist to hip proportion.  There is something to be said
> for the woman's body as sexually appealing... this also played into facial
> features.  Women, of course, also have their preferences.  Evolution is
> supposedly responsible for this according to both my class instructor as well
> as the TV show narrator.

I've heard this explain, by a anthropologist I think, as being an heritage from
our prehistorical ancestors: broad hips point at easyness in childbearing, well
formed bossom points to being able to feed the offspring and a small waist tells
the man willing to pass on his genes that the woman is not carrying another
man's child at the moment. Kathy D. does this make sense?

Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC, living in Maaseik, Belgium
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