Preferred female body proportions among child-free men.
Based on conceptual extrapolations from sociobiological models concerning the significance of secondary sex characteristics as markers of a female's capacity to produce and nurture offspring, we reasoned that men's greater unwillingness to reproduce would be linked to preference for a female body type characterized by the relative absence of such markers. Heterosexual undergraduate men (N = 67) indicated their ideal (most arousing) female body type on-line by means of an adjustable female figure. As expected, the desire to remain childfree was linked to erotic preference for a combination of smaller breasts and larger waist-to-hip ratio. Additional research into individual factors that map onto variations in the preferred body proportions of erotic targets is thus encouraged.
Department of Psychology, St. Jerome's University, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G3, Canada. cburris@uwaterloo.ca
Christopher T
CT
Burris
Armand R
AR
Munteanu
D000293:Adolescent; D001504:Beauty; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D020010:Heterosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D049629:Waist-Hip Ratio; D055815:Young Adult