Will skinny people get more attractive...

It's been reported many many times in the media that the world is getting fatter. We're eating more, exercising less, and it's inevitable that the world is quickly turning obese.

My question: since skinny people are considered attractive in society today, will they be further sought out by people as sexual partners? Natural selection dictates that hardy species make the best mates, so will skinny people (those less likely to die from obesity-related diseases) become more attractive (or at least more sexually desirable) as the rest of the world gets fatter and more prone to disease?

 

[biostud]

Originally posted by: jumpr
It's been reported many many times in the media that the world is getting fatter. We're eating more, exercising less, and it's inevitable that the world is quickly turning obese.

My question: since skinny people are considered attractive in society today, will they be further sought out by people as sexual partners? Natural selection dictates that hardy species make the best mates, so will skinny people (those less likely to die from obesity-related diseases) become more attractive (or at least more sexually desirable) as the rest of the world gets fatter and more prone to disease?

Actually there was a report that the danish women has gotten less obese over the last 40 years, H00RAY!!!!! 😀

 

[Ready]

i heard danishes r hot

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: jumpr
It's been reported many many times in the media that the world is getting fatter. We're eating more, exercising less, and it's inevitable that the world is quickly turning obese.

My question: since skinny people are considered attractive in society today, will they be further sought out by people as sexual partners? Natural selection dictates that hardy species make the best mates, so will skinny people (those less likely to die from obesity-related diseases) become more attractive (or at least more sexually desirable) as the rest of the world gets fatter and more prone to disease?

You're making the leap of logic that a skinny person would have sex with an overweight person. I know this sounds callous, but think about it; odds are, a thin person (especially in this day and age) has a healthy, active lifestyle whereas an overweight person probably doesn't. The odds of these two people falling in love and having a kid taking the disparate lifestyles into account, are probably pretty slim (no pun intended).

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: Ready
i heard danishes r hot

I hear they are jelly filled.

 

[Drizzy]

I think that people just need to relearn self control!

 

[Zysoclaplem]

People in better shape have always been more attractive, and probably always will be. But natural selection really no longer applies. Humans are a bit more complicated than other animals.
We feel anger, jealousy, depression, stress, happiness, fear, hate, love and numerous other things. We could meet the most gorgeous person in the world, with the worst personality, and not want anything to do with them. Or the best personality in the world with an overweight body, and love them more than anything else.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the say goes, and this is true.
But things change for everyone. The young get old, the skinny get fat, the fat lose weight, the old get young.
People are trying to change. But most lack the willpower or the time to do so.
But then again, may'be being obese, and dying from obesity related illnesses is the new natural selection.

 

[StageLeft]

As mentioned, natural selection doesn't necessarily work very well for us now. Fat people are just as able to get a fat mate as a thin one, and even if it runs in their family that they'll die from obesity related illnesses at 50, that's well past child-bearing age. Indeed, any genetic abnormality that makes most members in a family die at, say, 40 years on the nose, is not very likely to be stamped out of existence, because few people have children past the age of 40.

Another thing is that one's class is related to obesity. If you're poor/lower class you're more likely to be obese. Sadly for evolution you're also probably more likely to have a lot of kids (I think that lower classes have more children per family but not positive), so in fact the lower class, fatter people may be outbreeding the higher class more healthy individuals!

ON TOPIC: Yes, as the general population gets fatter, if you're a skinny one you'll be compartively more attractive. it's highly unlikely that we'll, as a society, find fat people more attractive in time. Back in days of old when starvation was a real fear, the chubby ones were seen as attractive. Now that nobody in our society worth mentioning starves to death, those who are able to maintain a slim weight will continue to be seen as more attractive. They will stick out more. Already those not overweight are a minority in adults. A hundred years ago people would have been amazed to think that there are now vast populations of people who are so well fed as to be actually overfed and eat so much food that they're unhealthy because of it! It would be like somebody from the future coming down and telling me that in one hundred years the general population will be so obsessed with excercise that there is a chronic state of overtraining in the average individual. Ha!

 

[vshah]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
As mentioned, natural selection doesn't necessarily work very well for us now. Fat people are just as able to get a fat mate as a thin one, and even if it runs in their family that they'll die from obesity related illnesses at 50, that's well past child-bearing age. Indeed, any genetic abnormality that makes most members in a family die at, say, 40 years on the nose, is not very likely to be stamped out of existence, because few people have children past the age of 40.

Another thing is that one's class is related to obesity. If you're poor/lower class you're more likely to be obese. Sadly for evolution you're also probably more likely to have a lot of kids (I think that lower classes have more children per family but not positive), so in fact the lower class, fatter people may be outbreeding the higher class more healthy individuals!

ON TOPIC: Yes, as the general population gets fatter, if you're a skinny one you'll be compartively more attractive. it's highly unlikely that we'll, as a society, find fat people more attractive in time. Back in days of old when starvation was a real fear, the chubby ones were seen as attractive. Now that nobody in our society worth mentioning starves to death, those who are able to maintain a slim weight will continue to be seen as more attractive. They will stick out more. Already those not overweight are a minority in adults. A hundred years ago people would have been amazed to think that there are now vast populations of people who are so well fed as to be actually overfed and eat so much food that they're unhealthy because of it! It would be like somebody from the future coming down and telling me that in one hundred years the general population will be so obsessed with excercise that there is a chronic state of overtraining in the average individual. Ha!

maybe not in the US, but elsewhere, millions do.
EDIT: which I guess is why you said "our society" :beer:

anyway i hope OP is right

-Vivan <<5'11" 120lbs 😀

 

[Bulk Beef]

The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: sward666
The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

I'd recommend four or five of them so you can pile them on you for warmth. 😀

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: sward666
The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

I'd recommend four or five of them so you can pile them on you for warmth. 😀

4-5 siberian girls, or one georgian.

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: sward666
The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

I'd recommend four or five of them so you can pile them on you for warmth. 😀

4-5 siberian girls, or one georgian.

....or a relatively slender Alabamian. 😛

 

[Electric Amish]

No. Skinny chicks are ugly.

 

[SoylentGreen]

Attractiveness really is in the eye of the beholder. Yes, you can say Rachel Hunter is attractive and I don't believe that you'd get a valid response in disagreement.
America is not the world btw. Many european nations have very high fat-laden diets and they remain thin.
It has more to do with a sedentary lifestyle that Americans are enjoying.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: SoylentGreen
Attractiveness really is in the eye of the beholder. Yes, you can say Rachel Hunter is attractive and I don't believe that you'd get a valid response in disagreement.
America is not the world btw. Many european nations have very high fat-laden diets and they remain thin.
It has more to do with a sedentary lifestyle that Americans are enjoying.

People are also consuming more calories than in days gone by. Obesity is also well accepted in American culture. In Europe you'll be mocked far more by your peers than here, where since everyone is fat, it's much easier to get away with. Unless you're the fat kid on the playground or morbidly he-man sized obese, you'll be able to go years without even a nasty look from anybody.

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: sward666
The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

I'd recommend four or five of them so you can pile them on you for warmth. 😀

4-5 siberian girls, or one georgian.

....or a relatively slender Alabamian. 😛

*shudder*

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Another thing is that one's class is related to obesity. If you're poor/lower class you're more likely to be obese. Sadly for evolution you're also probably more likely to have a lot of kids (I think that lower classes have more children per family but not positive), so in fact the lower class, fatter people may be outbreeding the higher class more healthy individuals!

Very intriguing point. In third world countires, if you are poor/lower class you are THIN as hell. Fat people only exists in the well to do/rich class

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Another thing is that one's class is related to obesity. If you're poor/lower class you're more likely to be obese. Sadly for evolution you're also probably more likely to have a lot of kids (I think that lower classes have more children per family but not positive), so in fact the lower class, fatter people may be outbreeding the higher class more healthy individuals!

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Very intriguing point. In third world countires, if you are poor/lower class you are THIN as hell. Fat people only exists in the well to do/rich class

What we'd consider chunky now a couple of hundred years ago was hot 🙂

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: sward666
The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

I'd recommend four or five of them so you can pile them on you for warmth. 😀

4-5 siberian girls, or one georgian.

....or a relatively slender Alabamian. 😛

bwahahahaha, so good

 

[Schadenfroh]

153lbs at 6' and still no women yet, so therefore, no

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Fausto

Originally posted by: sward666
The skinny ones will die out during the coming ice age.

/off to find some fat Siberian girl

I'd recommend four or five of them so you can pile them on you for warmth. 😀

4-5 siberian girls, or one georgian.

....or a relatively slender Alabamian. 😛

bwahahahaha, so good

Thank god we Georgian have a few states left to pick on (AL, MS, WV). 😛

 

[Jhill]

www.naafa.org Some of these people are pathetic



Another page that will boggle your mind (the 900 club)

 

[vi edit]

Define "skinny". As in twiggy arms and legs, no mucle tone to be found and flat as a pancake chest and booty?

No thanks. If that's your definition of "skinny" then I don't find that attractive all.

This is exactly my problem with modern society - there is no middle ground when it comes to size. You are told being fat is bad, and being borderline anorexic is good. There is no reward for just being "normal" anymore.

 

[bleeb]

heheh... being Kate Moss skinny is VERY rare.