What Women Want: To Know That Men Prefer Full-bodied Women

Finally, one answer to the unanswerable question: Women want to know that men desire women who aren’t rail-thin. It’s true. ScienceDaily reports that three studies conducted at Southern Methodist University all support the thesis that a woman’s body image is strongly linked to her perception of what she thinks men prefer. The studies also revealed, unsurprisingly, that most women believe that men prefer very thin women. OK, it’s not hard to see where women get such ideas, but the media gets a lot of things wrong. ScienceDaily reports that the new studies involved 448 women who were asked to look at images of women with different body types, and who were told that some of the women were particularly attractive to men. In all three studies, women who were told that men were attracted to larger women felt better about their own bodies.