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I find it amusing (and sick) that most mainstream American men (and the mainstream women who wish to attract them) find the ideal women to be one who is 5 foot, 10 inches tall, wears 44 DD bra, weighs 96 pounds, and has a "butt like a ten year old boy."
In other words, to me, "Boys with boobs."
What madness is this? I prefer voluptuous women!
Is that so wrong?
If one reads Desmond Morris's classic "The Naked Ape," one might infer as I did that the reason that the human female alone developed enlarged mammary glands was to display the eroticism usually found by most human males (and virtually every mammal) on a female's front, which encourages "missionary position" sexual congress.
Did you ever wonder what the missionaries were trying to discouraged in their "uncivilized" flock? Why, it was rear entry congress! It also encouraged face to face sexual congress...hence the term.
To quote Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in "Murder on the Orient Express," I, too, am a connoisseur of the retreating form of a woman."
In other words, I adore women who have callipygian (look it up!) bottoms! And I heartily concur with Daniel Brown when he wrote about the "Golden Ratio" that appears in nature everywhere inspires and inflames the hearts and minds of human males when it is observed in the curves of a human female.
Note, however, that there is a difference between being fat with a rear end caused by that alone, and having a coke bottle/pear shape that is caused by having a wide pelvic girdle, a flat stomach, and a narrow waist, as well as having a rounded derriere that juts proudly and sensually out from the side, preferably with a healthy lardosis.
I could go on rhapsodizing, but you get the idea. Jennifer Lopez is popular for many reasons, and all I want to do when I saw Kate Bosworth in "Superman Returns" play Lois Lane (a character who is quite voluptuous in the comics) was to offer her a sandwich, as to me she looked like a little girl playing dress-up in her mommy's grown-up clothes.
Finally, if you remember the "Seinfeld" episode where Kramer inadvertently receives a New York vanity license reading "Assman" (which apparently is based on a real incident in either Jerry's or Larry David's life), I cannot remember being more insulted for being an "ass man" myself than when Kramer brings a woman to Jerry's apartment whom he had attracted by virtue of the license.
That particular actress was merely big all over, with quite a generous bosom and no discernible waist, but with a bottom that to my eye was small to the point of being flat. I inferred from this that they meant it to be comical that any man could enjoy a woman with a round fundament, and that all we look for is an obese woman.
The author Debbie Dickerson seems to fall into this misguided category, as do most mainstream Americans.
Au contraire, mon ami, au contraire.
