Archive for August, 2011

What’s your ‘type’ and how do you express yourself?

Quizzical Pussy posted this excellent entry where she calls out Erik Holland who is something of a troll. Yes on his website (which I won’t honor with a direct link here) he does start to make some solid points about skeletal structure body types and generalizations of masculine and feminine forms. And then he goes way overboard with it. I liken it much to how Sigmund Freud made some excellent and even ground breaking realizations about how the human brain works. Aaaaaaaaaaaaand then he went and said that we all want to fuck our parents. Sig. Can I call you Sig? How long have you felt this way?

I find it interesting and outright weird that body types can be fashionable. From the well-fed women in the frescoes of the Renaissance to Twiggy and beyond, nobody can deny the fact that these things run in trends. I find it far easier to accept that different people like different things. I like flat-chested women. I always have. In junior high when the other thirteen-year-old boys discovered BEWBIES I was simply unimpressed. My eyes were drawn to the girls that had hips and shapely legs. I’ve actually gotten confessions from other men with the same tastes in women. Anything more than a mouthful is a waste after all.

However I have to come to the conclusion that thirteen-year-old me was seeing the same thing as those other boys although through different features – the likelihood of healthy reproduction. On a reptilian level they saw the breasts as a sign that those girls would be able to feed the babies. On the same level I saw the hips for their birthing capabilities and the legs as a survival tool. Since we live in an organized civilization instead of the wild these attractions are not only vestigial they have been reduced to pure aesthetics. I know full well that a flat-chested woman can breast feed perfectly well and she won’t have to fight those things all her life. The other boys? Maybe they never bothered to look down any further than chest level because of the obsession. I really have no idea there.

One way or another as I put it to a work associate once, that’s why God makes them in all sizes and shapes. If everyone looked the same it would be so boring. Honestly I think that very neatly explains racial fetishes. Often we are naturally drawn to what we perceive as exotic. My exotic may be very different than the next guy’s exotic. From that standpoint alone how terrible would it be if everyone looked alike! How does all this relate to Holland and his website? Deep down inside I think he just wants to fuck his own mom. :P