From the perspective of gender differences, men's shoulders are wide and hips are narrow, while women's shoulders are narrow and hip breadth; Men have a broad chest and a thick trunk, which looks developed above the waist, while women have wide hips and full thighs, which looks developed below the waist; Male fat is mostly concentrated in the abdomen, and female fat is mostly concentrated in the buttocks and thighs; The position of male body center of gravity is relatively higher than that of female body center of gravity.
Women tend to overestimate men's love for women's thinness [42]? Men tend to overestimate women's love for muscular men. The media plays an important role in the popularity of ideal characters, which increases the misunderstanding between men and women about the love of opposite sex ideal characters.
Men and women like figure:
In one study, young women aged 18 ~ 30 were asked to describe their favorite male figure, and generally tended to have slender legs, narrow shoulders and narrow hips, and an inverted triangle figure; Hip breadth hates stubby legs and narrow shoulders, pear shape (S.J.Korn, 1975).
Actor Tom Hanks asked his friend rob reiner what women are pursuing nowadays. Lai Na gave the answer in the movie Sleepless in Seattle 1993: "Developed chest muscles and narrow buttocks."
In a series of cross-cultural studies, Singer showed men female sketches with different waist-hip ratios. In some sketches, the waist-hip ratio of women is 0.7, some are 0.8 and some are 0.9. The experimenter asked the subjects to circle the pictures they thought were the most attractive. In all the selected samples (including Africa, Brazil and the United States), men of different age groups think that women with waist-hip ratio of 0.7 are the most attractive [5 1]? .