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PaperclipPerfector  12d ago (text post)   2338 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 6, 2024

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But do lower class men actually like larger breasts more than upper class men, or are upper class men just more sensitive to appearing vulgar and crass and temper/moderate their responses? What do you think of the boobs vs butts phenomenon where the map of global preferences looks suspiciously like an IQ map? And Jewish women being known for their breasts?

Ofc people falsify their stated preferences to enhance their social standing.

The ideal forms change with time, in the 90s it was really slender people generally, our times appreciate someone who has above average levels of muscle mass and standout secondary sexual characteristics. I personally always leaned towards the second and never understood the appeal of androgynous, skinny, low muscle mass body types.

The Greeks got both the male and female form right. Youthful heracles is my reference point personally and aphrodite might have been one had I been a girl.

  • What if causation is structured differently? Like, a preexisting proclivity for temperance leading to (1) preference for smaller breasts and (2) better life outcomes.

  • Does the lower class thing hold up in places where there is no correlation between class and obesity rates? Most people like looks that they grew up with.

  • "Those who disagree are just falsifying preferences" is a too emotionally satisfying theory to not be suspect. Also, even if it is shaped by social pressure, in what sense is a sufficiently internalised preference less valid? Nobody likes IPAs or jazz in a state of nature, either.

  • I would guess that IQ correlates positively with a lot of sexual preferences that are not reproductively advantageous. Furries are known to be something like the Jews of IT, too.

a preexisting proclivity for temperance

I think the only limiting factor on preference for breast size is once they become so large they're a visible deformity (at which point you get into inflation fetish territory- aka the DeviantArt school of sexual attraction). Of course, that also means having breasts that large is selected against.

"Those who disagree are just falsifying preferences" is a too emotionally satisfying theory to not be suspect.

I think that pushes the average size preference up, not down, for 'she looks like a little girl that means ur a pedo hahah also die' reasons.

I think that pushes the average size preference up, not down, for 'she looks like a little girl that means ur a pedo hahah also die' reasons.

In my experience I only really feel this dynamic online. IRL I wouldn't feel embarrassed to introduce my parents to a gf with A cups, introducing my parents to my H cup gf would feel shameful.

introducing my parents to my H cup gf would feel shameful.

y tho

But do lower class men actually like larger breasts more than upper class men, or are upper class men just more sensitive to appearing vulgar and crass and temper/moderate their responses?

This article spends several thousand words arguing "Yes".

You always link the most based articles

And Jewish women being known for their breasts?

I haven't really heard this before outside of "khazar milkers"-posting.

Really? My friend (now a Republican state senator lol) and I were joking about "jewbs" all the time in high school in 2006. Granted about half the girls in our school were Jewish so we may have been in an usual situation...

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