There you go, Alice (so you're using the name Rita now?)... annoying all of us with your blatantly racist comments. Crawl back under the rock you slithered out of, you disgusting woman!

What do you look like? Probably some hillbilly in the backwoods with that atrocious spelling, grammar and syntax!

Wow...what ignorant intellegance you have. You must lead a miserable life to talk about anyone the way you do. It is that kind of stupidity that will never ever get you anywhere in life. Since you have a limited mind....do you know or have you heard of Karma? What you put out is only what you will get back. I take it that no matter what anyone says to you that you will continue on this downward spiral of existance. Once you decide you are not getting anywhere in life with this type of thinking then maybe your life will start to turn around. I truly hope so for your sake.

somebody sounds like a hater...

Men (and women) are animals. Physical attraction is based on deeply-rooted animal instincts. We're all ruled by things we're not consciously aware of, like this ratio. Also, shiny hair and glowing skin are signs of a good breeder; strong men will be able to protect the children. Most humans get past these basic instincts and pick mates based on personality. But this goes back to cave-man times and is hardwired into everyone's brains.

Skip 8-27-2010 @ 1:13PM
I am 64 years old... Just mentioned for a time line...
The perfect woman's body has been stated as :::

Bust Size - X
Waist Size - X minus 10
Hip Size - X plus 1

Examples ::: 36-26-37 or 34-24-35, etc.

36-24-36 - The Monroe - corseted hourglass was just fantasy

THE TIMES, THEY ARE A CHANGING

You're right, they are changing! I'm 16yrs younger than you and prefer different measurements. Attractive non-athletic is 32 to 34D - 22 to 24 - 32 to 33. Athletic 34C - 24 - 32. Just please no huge breasts, especially when it's primarily because of having extra weight. There isn't much more disgusting than a woman bragging about large breasts when it's because they are overweight. There are plenty of guys (me included) that don't want huge breasts. If they are natural, the woman is in shape and has a great personality. I will treat them the same as extra small breasts, it's the personality that makes the person.

So, that mean it's wrong to find Christina Hendricks attractive?

Charles, you say you're disagreeing with Skip, but all the measurements you said go with the math he said. The way bra size works is that the number (such as 36 or 34) is the actual measurement in inches of the bust, and the cup size (such as B or C) is the different between the measurement of the bust and the underbust.

I completely disagree. A lot of women are running around with loads and loads of extra fat in essence hiding a potentially perfect figure. The opposite is true for sticks with hair that people like to call fashion models...put on a little weight and BINGO they've got the makings of a perfect figure.

Not all women put on weight or take of weight equally yet if most lost enough or gained enough they would eventually reveal an actual waist instead of just rolls of fat or skeletal ribs. A lot of women start of with curves and then lose those God-given curves by excessively eating their weight in junk, high fat and high carb foods and if the scrawny girls would lay off the diet coke and cigarettes and eat properly they just might discover they have a perfect figure too.

*disclaimer - these comments were not intended to include any persons who have an actual physical medical condition that through the condition itself or medications for that condition cause weight gain or loss.

James- You're referring to your attraction and marriage to your "fairly pretty" wife as comparable to two morbidly obese people, because she doesnt look like Salma Hayek?!? What a narrow way to view your life. I mean to call it settling isnt exactly what it is. If Salma was a pig to you, and you still married her because of her attractive body, you'd still be "Settling".

The thing about physical attraction is we assume that shiny hair and big hips or muscles and and a chiseled chin are the only contributing factors to attraction and how our ancestors mated and learned to mate. This simply isn't so. Personality characteristics are at much to blame for evolution as the luck of the draw in the gene pool. More positive,happy people are idealistically better to mate with as they create offspring who are genetically more predisposed to happiness than a person who is susceptible to depression. It's just as much genetically in us to pick non-physical traits as it is to pick physical ones.

However, everyone mates. Depressed people have children. Unattractive people have children. People who aren't wealthy have children. People who dont have the perfect waist to hip ratio have children. People who are horrible with money have kids. People who do drugs or abuse their mates and others still have kids. Sexuality is complex and isnt as narrowed as people like to think. You can be turned on by more than just people who resemble ALba, or Brooklyn Decker, or Brad Pitt. Looks. i'd say, are less than half the deciding factor.

Get over yourself.