survey about men's preferences concerning women's body types
 

The magazine FHM did an online survey of 60,000 of it's subscribers. (link to article about this here)

The mag found that when shown pictures of three bikini-clad models, four out of five men said they were more attracted to the size 12 and size 14 models than the model who was a slimmer size 8.
The majority of votes went to the size 12 woman, with 41% saying that she had the body shape of their "ideal girlfriend". Almost as many men voted for the Nigella Lawson-esque size 14 model.
"A piddling 20% of readers selected our size eight model pictured as their ideal girl-physique," wrote FHM editor Ben Smithurst.


The image below is of three women, size 8, 12, and 14.




while of course they are all beauties, my dowsing-cock rod is pointed directly to the right. :)

these are english sizes not american ones obviously.

those 2 on the right are good. the one in the middle looks slightly better, the one on the right im sure feels better.

about the left one-- i'm scared of her pointy knees.

The one in the middle is hot.

FHM subscribers are the perfect sample population to represent all men!

I go with the middle, but since I'm a chronically skinny fuck I guess I'll have to go with the left because most chicks I know prefer guys the same size or larger than they are.

very true.

of course FHM is not the be all and end all of male taste, but at least it was not the closet gays that read Details answering this survey! ha ha! They just want a woman with a fat cock!


as far as clothing sizes go, thy are all fucked uyp now, both british, american, haute couture, etc. they have skewed them to the larger sizes so as to prey upon weak women's desire to delude themselves that their size 10 is actually a size 10.

I go to vintage stores with my girlfriend, and I did with my ex wife. It is easy to see how the sizing has ahcnged. a size 12 in 1950 would be labeled a size 8 now, or smaller. and so on.

and I would think that FHM readers would skew more towards the typical hollywood rail thin vision of "beauty"


Keira Knightley is admittedly a beautiful, beautiful woman, lucky to be born with such a face and skin, but damn, the coke-head look just makes me ill





if you cover her bikini with your fingers it really looks like a man, a runner, or a marathoner

I'd have to think very hard to come up with a woman that's sexier than Nigella Lawson, I must say.

yummy...

you're my favorite boardie of course ;)

i like a nice tummy on a girl. thats why i like the size 14

i know lots of guys that do, but likemost things, most guys pick who they like based on what everyone tells them is the one to pick.

virgins and inexperienced men tend to pick with their eyes and not with what they know will feel FABULOUS in bed.

I like thighs and legs and curves

AMEN BROTHER

I think you'd be surprised at the amount of guys that like bigger women. And let's face it, a size 14 is only 'big' by media standards.

And it's definitely not just a tits thing. Hips is where it'll always be IMO.

I dunno, maybe it's an age thing. I'm in my late 30s and most of my friends of that age have similar taste.

The fact that I'm currently going out with a skinny 21 year old should be entirely disregarded for the purposes of this argument. As the Stones once said ... you can't always get what you want.;)

Absolutely! I wholeheartedly agree with every point in this post.

Hey hey there womanperson - Just because !"£$% and Herr Instigator have horn-o-vision tacked onto all of their posts doesn't mean that some of us don't also enjoy the finer things in life. Some of us just find their endless, interminable displays of alleged 'masculinity' reprehensible.

As has been pointed out by Herr 'often agreeable to Herr Glice' Rail, all of those ladies are gorgeous. Personally, size 12 is my absolute lower limit (as a scrawny shit myself, I might add) but those women are my no means representative of women in totality. I've 'known' size 18s who were astonishingly beautiful - doesn't mean they all are.

And, for the record, I'm currently rocking a size 16.

In my experience, men have absolutely no clue when it comes to working out what size a woman is. Perhaps this is to do with the bizarre inconsistency of sizing policy in high street stores, but I don't credit them all with such fashion savvy. I suspect it's more a case of 'she's not stick thin but I still fancy her, what age is hot? 16. A size 16 she is then'.

A fair point indeed. I can assure you, however, that I wouldn't bother saying 'she's a size 16' if she wasn't a size 16. Or, at least, that's the size of the dress I recently bought her. So myeurgh.

I don't know what guys you're basing that on, but I hope I never have the misfortune of being associated with them. Unless they're 16 themselves. In which case, what would anyone expect?

Ah, but do you know it fits? Ah ha!

absolutely correct. i have NO CLUE about what a "dress size" is. hence i said i like "the two on the right". ive barely started learning this shit in the past 4 years and i'm almost as disoriented as when i started.

said the guy who constantly boasts about his imaginary cock?

COCK LOVER

Trends in what is deemed sexy in women is notoriously dictated by bitter middle-aged women and gay men. Two groups that are hardly best equipped to properly reflect the tastes of most men.

only idiots try to guess a woman's clothing size.
stop hanging around with idiots.

Yes thanks.

I'm not dignifying anyone else with an answer.

Big boobs !! Nice ass !!!!
With shapes, like Scarlett Johansson, my (imaginary)love !!!
No breadboard !!

Sorry, sometimes I'm a little vulgar...

It's such a shame, because she has the whit and smarts to be able to defend herself for having whatever figure she wants, i wish she was healthy and curvy looking and defending that instead of constantly denying her obvious anorexia.
Other anorexics like MK Olsen and Nicole Richie do not have that whit or intelligence.

Speaking as a gay man, I just like to say this to the hetero men: This summer's "in" look will be Carhartt arseless chaps. Many media types in Soho will be sporting these in no time, and man about town Paul Weller has commisioned Ben Sherman to make a vintage Mod-style "tonic-chaps" pair.

Jump on the bandwagon before it's too late!

I apologise, it's hard to keep track, you paint yourself as quite the lothario.

Concentration Camp Chic

Arrrggg.... She's so hot !!!!

as long as she is not a nutter i dont care.

or one who prefers to fondle, grope, lick and suck on men's nuts?

rob is your puberty never ending?

Looking at that picture of Nicole Ritchie, I'm more bothered about when hers is likely to start!

I lean more to the right on this issue, though there happens to be something weird about the girl on the right in that picture.

maybe, my girlfriend cannot understand why a 34(soon to be 35) year old man is constantly ready and willing to rock the casbah, if you get my drift. (she is 26)

I would also say that my fascination with ridiculing british slang and speech is also never ending.

It's my experience that women are actually far more judgemental about their body sizes than most men, to the point where they don't actually believe us when they hear us say how we're actually not that bothered about it on the whole. There are of course upper and lower limits, where a woman looks unhealthy, but that leaves a fairly large window that includes a variety of shapes and sizes. Any guy that would only go with a woman that's a size 10 or 12 is probably just a gay guy trying to deny the truth about his sexuality by going for the most widely acceptable model (as 'normalised' via a strangely asexual media) of so-called female beauty.