From: gerryq@indigo.ie   
      
   In article ,   
   jamesd@echeque.com says...   
      
   > All the features that men find attractive are strongly   
   > correlated with fertility and health - with the notable   
   > exception that men prefer women who are a lot fatter   
   > than is healthy, though a lot slimmer than is common in   
   > modern society.  The playboy model has about twenty   
   > pounds of fat on the olympic athlete.  The male   
   > preference for women with substantial fat reserves   
   > probably reflects the fact that in the ancestral   
   > environment, a women bearing a child is going to run   
   > down those fat reserves a great deal.   
      
   I don't understand where you get the idea that having more fat than an   
   Olympic athlete is unhealthy.   
      
   - Gerry Quinn   
      
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