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Originally Posted by UKking
Man, those are sole fucked up ads. The power of marketing and pop culture. Honestly, I doubt that the popular preference favouring slim women is innate; I think this is something that is taught and learned. But it's so deeply ingrained into our culture now that it might as well be written in stone.
What's even weirder to me, though: In the supposedly instinctive selection processes we go through in determining how sexually attractive a person is, we factor in their potential health. A healthier mate is more likely to raise a successfully reproducing offspring. And nowadays, if you imagine a slim woman in some spandex & running gear versus an overweight woman in the same outfit, which do you label as healthier? The slim woman. BUT, in reality, does the larger woman's weight affect her ability to raise successfully reproducing offspring? Not really. Not today anyways. Well, how about back in the stone age? I'm no expert, but I doubt it.
Anyways my point is that I doubt the slim preference is biological, or instinctive or anything like that. I think it's marketing. Very old marketing, too, whose funky origin has been lost in time, and now it's just some self-perpetuating reality of the unstoppable economy and media in a crazy Chicken-And-The-Egg relationship.
Imagining my preferences were flipped around is like imagining a colour that doesn't exist. Does not compute. So where does that leave me as a guy who blatantly prefers slim women, knowing that there's no good reason for it? Well, for one, the admission makes me feel guilty. It inflicts emotional turmoil on countless women. But the guilt is followed by resentment towards the resistance of the slim preference, since it is 'the source' of that annoying pang of guilt.
A lot of help that is, huh?
This topic reminds me of religion for some reason.
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Note that people did not live a sedentary lifestyle, nor were there as many fatasses during the stone age as there are now. If we all had to hunt for our food, we would be in better shape. What the woman jogging in spandex represents is healthy. I highly doubt that the plus-size model in those ads is at her healthy weight, nor do I believe that our sexual preferences are solely based on what society deems "right."
The caveat to the attraction of slim women is naturally bigger women. Women who's frame is larger usually have wider hips, and there's a reason they're called child-bearing hips. That should be naturally sexually attractive, as our minds and instincts naturally lean towards larger women, but that usually means women who are larger-framed, not fatter. I don't think I need to explain the health risks that excess fat stores pose.