> Harry, Harry, Harry (said in the voice of Gilderoy Lockhart)
>
> There we were, discussing how language interrelates with the behaviour that
> enables us to choose our mate, and therefore IS part of human biology, and
> you bring up the question of portly women.
>
> And I was just about to have breakfast.
>
> Let me tell you that there is no evidence that fat women have ever been
> desirable to most men.
How about http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorf.html
There is good evidence that there is a trend to associating thinner
women as more sexually desirable over the past few decades
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=139033
The attractiveness of fatness in women has varied over the millenia in
response to social trends
http://www.mindfully.org/Health/Who-Is-Fat-Culture.htm
>
> Just because Reubens and a few other people liked them and painted them,
> that doesn't make it the norm.
>
> He was painting rich people, that would pay him. And they tended to be able
> to get a big share of the food and be idle. Whether he really preferred fat
> women is highly debatable.
>
> Walking around the Tretyakovsky or the Wilanow Palace or Zamek Krolewski,
> which are the three most recent collections I've visited, you won't see many
> fat chicks in party hats in the collection.
>
> If you like them, you're welcome to them.
>
> Uncle Davey
I don't think that a brief walk around a few museums makes you an
expert on the subject. I don't suppose that a few minutes researching
on the internet makes me one either. It perhaps does make me slighlty
better informed.
I don't see the connection between language and sexual attractiveness.
Is your argument that if I don't find a woman sexually attractive,
you'd be able to persuade me that she is? Somehow, I doubt it!
RF
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