Article: Child-bearing hips.(Brief article)

It is a truism that men are attracted to women with large breasts and narrow waists, with consequent accentuation of the hips. Now a study has shown that women with this shape are significantly more fertile than other women. The researchers calculated waist-hip ratios by dividing the waist measurement by the hip measurement, and found an average figure of 0.72. In narrow-waisted women this figure was 0.68. Similarly, breast size was calculated by dividing the measurement around the breasts by the measurement around the abdomen directly beneath the breasts. The average was 1.16, with large-breasted women having ...

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