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Personally, I'm not enthralled with stripping and sex work, but all this sniping kind of misses the point. Maxim is apparently assuming that all men are either closet ghouls who secretly lust after famine victims, latent homosexuals who like women who look like men with breasts, or pedophiles who like teenage boys, if a woman is too "voluptuous," at 5'6 and 145 pounds, to meet their exotic dancer standards. A lot of men--including the one I married--very much appreciate soft female curves, which it appears the writer probably has, in rather reasonable amounts.
Weren't Marilyn Monroe's measurements in that vicinity? Or think of Rita Moreno in West Side Story, what sensual grace she had, and my god, she had curves. If it's really true that a majority of men have somehow been convinced that this is fat and unattractive and that anorexic bags of bones are ideal fantasy women, it's at least half as much a pity for them as for the women who starve and loathe themselves to please them.
