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Preferred Female Body Proportions Among Child-Free Men

Abstract  

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.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original Paper
  • Pages 1-7
  • DOI 10.1007/s10508-012-9964-0
  • Authors
    • Christopher T. Burris, Department of Psychology, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3, Canada
    • Armand R. Munteanu, Department of Psychology, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3, Canada
    • Journal Archives of Sexual Behavior
    • Online ISSN 1573-2800
    • Print ISSN 0004-0002
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 05/26/2012 | Link to this post on IFP |
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