google.com, pub-4988895920620082, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Big Butts Are Good For Business: Kim Kardashian's recent Paper magazine photo sparks a dialogue

Although the association between big butts and fertility is real, not all societies have the same fascination with full derrière as we do in the West.

Androgens are a class of hormones that are associated with strength, stamina, and competitiveness. These hormones also cause fat to increase around the waist, LiveScience reported.

A 2008 study found that in countries where food is scarce and women bear more physical responsibility, men will take a preference for physical strength over fertility.

“Lower or higher androgen/estrogen ratios (or value them equally) should depend on the degree to which they want their mates to be strong, tough, economically successful, and politically competitive," wrote Elizabeth Cashdan, lead author of the study.

Her team found that a bigger emphasis was placed on a tiny waist and big hips in countries where women were less economically independent, then in countries where there is more sexual equality.

According to Dr. Dionne Stephens, an associate psychology professor at Florida International University, large booties have long been preferable in Latino and black communities but have become more mainstream thanks to pop culture influences.

“When people see things repeated on TV more and more, it becomes normalized,” Stephens told Perth Now.

Butt augmentation rates are skyrocketing in America. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, these operations have increased by 58 percent from 2013 to 2014, with Dr. Constantino Mendieta, an ASAPS member claiming that he is “seeing a tremendous rise in requests for buttock augmentation procedures.”

This quest for backside beauty has come with a price, however. So far, deaths in Miami, New York, Las Vegas, and Jackson, Miss., have been reported in association with butt enlargement surgeries gone wrong.

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Contact Form

Name

Email *

Message *