Why Do People Find Women With Hour Glass Figures Attractive?
Women with low WHRs are more reproductively viable. They ovulate more often, have more regular menstrual cycles, and are more likely to conceive as a result of artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization.
Women with low WHRs are also healthier. They have a lower risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, gall bladder disease, kidney disease, and various cancers
Broad hips are also indicative of underlying pelvic skeletal morphology that enables women to undergo relatively unencumbered childbirth.
Caesarian sections were not an option during human evolutionary history. Women who were unable to deliver their babies perished, along with their babies, effectively eliminating their genes and those of their mate’s from the gene pool.
Evidence also shows that the configuration of a woman’s waist relative to her hips may be an index of the availability of special fat stores (Lassek & Gaulin, 2008).
Adequate stores of body fat may be particularly valuable to women during pregnancy and lactation because these conditions can increase caloric demands by 10% to 15%, respectively.
The attraction that many men have to enlarged breasts may be a consequence of the connection between female body fat and reproduction.
Life span developmental changes in the shape and configuration of the breasts are correlated with changes in a woman’s capacity to ovulate.
and as a consequence enlarged breasts may have evolved to compensate for the loss of ovulatory cues by signaling ample energy stores and ovulatory potential (Gallup, 1982).
Evidence shows that women with large breasts actually have elevated levels of salivary estradiol and higher fertility
The value of breasts as a cue to fertility changes as women age and nurse children, which cause breasts to droop and become less firm
The value of breasts as a cue to fertility changes as women age and nurse children, which cause breasts to droop and become less firm
