There's no denying it and now science may support it: men love big butts.
According to a study highlighted in
Medical Daily, a team of researchers at Turkey's Bilkent University found further evidence supporting an evolutionary explanation for why men are attracted to women with curvy derrieres.
The study determined that the ancestral advantage for women with a 45 degree spine curvature, which enables mobility through pregnancy, has remained a preferred feature of modern man. In evolutionary terms, our forebears are thought to have developed a sexual attraction to women with greater curvature because they possessed the highest likelihood of bearing children who would live to further pass on DNA.
To test the theory in the present, researchers had 300 men look at silhouettes of women with varying degrees of spine curvature. They found that the majority of men expressed a preference for silhouettes with spine curvature of 45.5 degrees, bolstering the notion that the attraction to big butts could reflect an instinct for genetic survival.
While not the simplest way to explain it, this may well be the most acceptable way. The reasons for attraction are often inexact and love, as it has evolved, weighs personality as a major factor for building partnerships. That said, the research at least makes the infatuation a little less crass.
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