Journal article
Female waist-to-hip ratio, body mass index and sexual attractiveness in China
Current Zoology, Vol.56(2), pp.175-181
2010
Abstract
Men and women at Northwest University (n = 751), Xi’an, China were asked to judge the attractiveness of photographs of female patients who had undergone micrograft surgery to reduce their waist-to-hip ratios (WHR). Micrograft surgery involves harvesting adipose tissue from the waist and reshaping the buttocks to produce a low WHR and an ‘hourglass’ female figure. This gynoid distribution of female body fat has been shown to correlate with measures of fertility and health. Significantly larger numbers of subjects, of both sexes, chose post-operative photographs, with lower WHRs, as more attractive than pre-operative photographs of the same women. Some patients had gained, and some had lost weight, post-operatively, with resultant changes in body mass index (BMI). However, these changes in BMI were not related to judgments of attractiveness. These results show that the hourglass female figure is rated as attractive in China, and that WHR, rather than BMI, plays a crucial role in such attractiveness judgments.
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- Title
- Female waist-to-hip ratio, body mass index and sexual attractiveness in China
- Authors
- B J Dixson (Author) - Victoria University of WellingtonBaoguo Li (Author) - Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of ChinaA F Dixson (Author) - Victoria University of Wellington
- Publication details
- Current Zoology, Vol.56(2), pp.175-181
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- DOI
- 10.1093/czoolo/56.2.175
- ISSN
- 2396-9814
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Psychology; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99621008602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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