What Makes a Woman Sexy
With all the modern day pressures on looking good, it’s not surprising that most women judge themselves as being too big and are not content with their own figure.
The media dictates that all ’sexy ‘women are slender and good looking, however a quick look back over our history tells us that this ideal was more recently adopted by society.
Many pre 20th century paintings portray women in a very different light when compared with the glamorous slim slender models of today.
Paintings such as Raffael’s ‘Three Graces’ tell us that rich bodied women, graced with typical feminine curves, were at the time, considered to be the most attractive.
Research shows that in that past, being fat or over weight was a status symbol and a sign of wealth. Only the rich could afford to eat well while the poor remained slim from lack of food.
These days the food supply is more abundant and being fat has lost its sign of prosperity, however in some developing countries, this still remains true as the poor struggle to eat.
With all social influences aside, researchers say that the ideal figure can be measured using the waist-hip ratio (WHR). This value is calculated by dividing the waist circumference by the hip circumference, and can be used to measure the overall appearance of a women’s figure regardless of size.
For example: 63 cm waist /90 cm hip = 0.7.
The waist-hip-ratio was first theorized in 1993 by psychologist Dr. Devendra Singh at the University of Austin Texas. According to theory of WHR, the perfect ratio for a women’s figure is 0.7.
The images above show three different WHR’s, from left to right: 0.6, 0.7, and 0.8.
This magic number has raised some criticism as studies show that non-western cultures prefer a WHR of 0.9. These variations can be related to the divergent preferences based on ethnicity as well as to the ideals that being over weight comes with wealth.
Despite the few social groups which have been shown to prefer a slightly different WHR ratio, most studies have clearly found that a WHR of 0.7 is the most popular.
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by How Surgeons Use Symmetry To Enhance Beauty With Plastic Surgery » Thailand Cosmetic Plastic Surgery and Medical Tourism Travel Blog on Jul 24, 2008 at 2:16 pm
I have a very good waist to hips ratio but somehow in photographs it never shows up. Why?
by Trupti on Mar 7, 2010 at 2:50 pm