En undersøgelse med 100 mænd fra tre landsbyer i Papua Ny Guinea viste, at mændene vurderede kvinder, der havde gennemgået mikrograftkirurgi for at reducere deres talje-til-hofte-forhold (WHR), som mere attraktive efter operationen. Resultaterne indikerer, at WHR er en vigtig faktor for attraktion, uafhængigt af ændringer i BMI.
Titel på undersøgelse:
Male preferences for female waist-to-hip ratio and body mass index in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
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Hele abstrakt på originalsprog:
One hundred men, living in three villages in a remote region of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea were asked to judge the attractiveness of photographs of women who had undergone micrograft surgery to reduce their waist-to-hip ratios (WHRs). Micrograft surgery involves harvesting adipose tissue from the waist and reshaping the buttocks to produce a low WHR and an “hourglass” female figure. Men consistently chose postoperative photographs as being more attractive than preoperative photographs of the same women. Some women gained, and some lost weight, postoperatively, with resultant changes in body mass index (BMI). However, changes in BMI were not related to men’s judgments of attractiveness. These results show that the hourglass female figure is rated as attractive by men living in a remote, indigenous community, and that when controlling for BMI, WHR plays a crucial role in their attractiveness judgments.