The Ultimate Body Language Book

also tend to carry low hip-to-waist ratios. Research also tells us that the waist is the last place women
tend to add fat so as to preserve the sexiness of their curves. These changes happen rapidly after about
age eighteen, where fat is added to the buttocks and legs but stays off the stomach until much later in
life at around menopause. Only with great diligence are women able to keep their stomachs flat after
their childbearing years. Once again though, after childbirth the area tends to be most resilient to fat
deposits and the legs and butt tend to hold the most amount of fat, serving only to further emphasize the
hip-waste ratio.
Having said this, digitally altered images and women who naturally carry a higher hip-to-waist ratio,
are often seen as even more alluring. It is a play on the minds of men where everything is better if
bigger, and if some is good, more is best. When it comes to men, if something is worth doing at all, it’s
worth overdoing! The size of women’s breast is a prime example, and came about through evolution
specifically to attract and keep the attention of men. Women are rare in the animal kingdom as they
have what scientist refer to as permanently swollen breasts, or breasts that are large outside of lactation,
and seem to have absolutely no desirable function at all, but as a sexual selection characteristic.
Interestingly though, we aren’t alone in terms of exaggeration preferences, for example, mother birds
who’s eggs have been swapped for larger ones (of another species), even freakishly large ones, will
tend to sit on them longer and more frequently, even sometimes abandoning other eggs in their clutch.
So it appears that even mom’s like more of things, especially when some of that things is great, more is
seen as greater. Universally however, men do prefer the golden hip-to-waist ratio of seventy percent
and tend to prefer a c-cup sized breast which amounts to about five percent of women’s total body mass
– if you really want to get technical! The point being that exaggeration tends to mesmerize and sexual
body language is no different.