Sunday, July 01, 2007

Sam -- Backed up by Science -- Again!

Whach'a know? Remember my post about Hourglass Figures?

According to FirstScience, a respected scientific resource...


"To shed some light on the "visual stimuli" that fire-up a man's brain-cells, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin conducted a classic psychology experiment. They showed a group of men line drawings of female bodies. The size of the waist and the size of the hips were marginally different in every picture, sex researchers refer to this relationship as the 'waist-to-hip' ratio. A clear majority of the men preferred female C: a woman whose waist is precisely seven-tenths the size of her hips. It turns out that women with this waist-to-hip ratio get pregnant more easily, have fewer miscarriages and are more likely to give birth successfully. Hip and waist size, full lips, defined cheeks, and sizable breasts are all controlled by sex hormones."

Click here to read the entire article.

And here's another much more thorough article from a different source that also speaks to face shape.

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