Amazing how some people in this discussion provide their opinions as some kind of fact. Or their own personal experience as proof of one thing or another.

That's about on the level of the old one, 'Well, my uncle has smoked like a chimney all his life and he's 87, so it can't be dangerous to smoke'. Uh-huh. I've actually heard that one used, it made me speechless! For about 5 seconds.

These are two very different things - what you like (or think) - and what is fact.

BH, your first post is spot on, as are all your later replies. Sensible, accurate and unbiased.

And to the person who claimed (and did so seriously, apparently!!) that the first row, Anna Nicole, is some kind of 'normal' - what planet did you fall off? Heavy City USA?

Sure, voluptuous women can be very appealing. That's not the point at all. That's a matter of opinion or taste. It's not relevant here.

Skinny women can also be very appealing, and that's also a matter or taste or opinion.

For goodness' sake - what is typical in the US at the moment (people being large) is not any kind of ideal, nor normality. It's just average modern American.

Go look at 'normal' or average East African - and I'm not talking about starvation, I'm talking about ordinary people who eat and burn fats & carbohydrates at corresponding levels. Look at the sinewy fat-free look of people living the way Homo Sapiens was meant to live. They're more like 'normal'  than MASSIVELY overweight US and some countries in Europe.

That's the level of labour our hearts and other organs are constructed to function most efficiently for. Call it 'sinewy' instead of skinny and we can avoid all the opinions about what constitutes skinny or attractive or whatever.

Calling any thin person 'anorexic' is a disastrous mistake. Anorexia is a severe mental and physical condition that leads to death unless stopped.

:] Fish - viewing this from an physical anthropological perspective, not personal or cultural preference, nor contemporary political correctness.