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Topic started on 14-1-2009 @ 03:29 AM by tezzajw

'Marilyn Monroe' hormone discovered


www.news.com.au
SCIENTISTS have identified the Marilyn Monroe hormone that is linked to an hour-glass body shape in women, and also an increased desire to trade-up to new men.

Women who have high levels of oestradoil also show elevated confidence and a greater inclination to have sex outside of their current relationship, according to the US-based research.

The ovarian steroid hormone is also associated with having a symmetrical face, large breasts and a low waist-to-hip ratio.
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reply posted on 21-1-2009 @ 01:35 AM by tezzajw
reply to post by amatrine



Lucky the times have changed for the better!

She would be lucky to make the pages of Ralph or Zoo these days.



reply posted on 21-1-2009 @ 03:33 AM by CA_Orot
I myself, am a Marilyn Monroe fan - I think she was gorgeous. As amatrine said, for her time period, the curvy hips and hour-glass shape was considered attractive. Today, as long as you can see hipbones, ribs, or other bones...apparently that is attractive.








Do you know how irritating it is to go into a jean store, and see a size 00? What sort of message is that sending to young girls? I'm not a heavy girl, but I have curves and this "hour-glass" gene. Don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong with being thin and healthy - but some of the stuff being promoted today as "fashionable" and/or "attractive" gives a lot of women complexes about their own bodies.

I would label the body type as a gene - not a hormone.

As for the gene being responsible for "up-trading" and infidelity - I think that's a little on the far fetched side. I wouldn't credit Marilyn Monroe's larger hips and small waist gene, with being the reason for her non-commitalness and affair with both Kennedy's (I'd say a Psychologist might give a better opinion on what that is). Give the gene credit where credit is due: the hour glass body, anything else I would call speculation.


- Carrot

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reply posted on 21-1-2009 @ 02:06 PM by sos37
reply to post by tezzajw



Great, just what promiscuous women in relationships need - an excuse.

"But sweetheart, it's in my genes!"

Fail.


reply posted on 21-1-2009 @ 04:23 PM by CA_Orot
Originally posted by yellowcard
I think it's more sad to see a society that offers obese sized clothing, frankly I like women to have a smaller frame, curves can be obtained without being fat...but I can certainly say that I find women like Natalie Portman who is almost curveless to be extremely attractive.


And you are entitled to your opinion on what is attractive and what is not - everyone has different tastes. Thin women yes are attractive, curves are attractive yes, bone-racks, are not attractive. Not to me anyway. As a woman, I'd rather date a guy whose got some meat and muscle on his body, then a guy whose going to stab me with his hip bones or who has his ribcage sticking out. I personally do not find it attractive.

I for one would rather see a size 00 in a store than to see a section made for fat women, or men for that matter, it's frankly quite grotesque.


It is grotesque, that there are super-plus sizes in stores, but I think its just as grotesque as the size 00. What I guess I'm trying to say, is that there are 2 very extremes in women's fashions and body types. A 00 is a little on the extreme side - just as is a size 22. I understand that there are women who are naturally thin (my mother) who can fit into such sizes without looking bony and unhealthy. There are also women who are naturally larger. But obese is just as bad as being sickly skinny. Both sides of the scale are prominent in our society - and that is sad. There is a difference between being healthy-skinny, and un-healthy skinny.

Just my personal opinions.

- Carrot

PS. Audrey Hepburn was also very pretty, I agree.
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