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People tend to forget that even without society's pressures, humans will find skinny people more sexually attractive as they are generally more likely to be very healthy (with the exception of those that are anorexic), this is a really primitive reproductive instinct, healthy mate = healthy babies. So even without magazines to tell us that skinny is good, we'd still find skinny more attractive than fat.
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The healthy mate= healthy babies thing I agree with. But that's not the only thing that factors into attractiveness. What about fertility idols? They were obviously made as a symbol of attraction, and (as the name states) fertility. It's something to do with the hips being larger, I think. Someone elaborate on this, if you could. And to quote NDW:
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200 years ago a well-proportioned woman was considered the picture of beauty - if you were skinny it meant you didn't have the money to eat. Now it costs more to eat healthy than to eat every meal in a fast food restaurant or pull out a tv dinner.
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