No one wants a bone but a dog is an old-school saying in the African American community that affirms the traditional approval of full-figured women by black men.
Its true. There are scores of guys of all races who prefer big women and choose them in the same way others favor blonds. Anecdotally speaking, a voluptuous woman could represent the ideal mother/lover image for men like Ron, a fifty-three-year-old special education teacher who never dates a woman under a size 12 who has food issues and does not like to eat.
Many men associate a woman who has a passion for food with someone who is highly sexual and likes to cook. Other guys admit to being attracted to the body type they are most familiar with from their family of sisters and a mother who are big-boned and fleshy.
Jerome, a middle-aged African American grocery clerk who has dated large women his entire life, buys into the notion that big women are easier. They dont expect much and if they reject a brother, he does not feel as bad as if a skinny woman disses him. And in bed, Jerome laughs there is more pushin with the cushion Besides, Jerome said that in his experience little women are evil.
A recent study published in the ‘Journal Of Black Studies’ reports that one size does not fit all when it comes to the size of beauty in the black community. In a 2004, report titled African American Mens Perception of Body Figure Attractiveness by Tammy T. Webb, E. Joan Looby, and Regina Fults-McMurtery, the researchers found that African American men with more mainstream values, perceived women with smaller body figures as more attractive than women with a larger body figures. This is in stark contrast to the long-held belief all black American men prefer thick women. The writers of the 2004 report attribute the influence of movies, videos, magazine and video games to the changing tastes of who is considered beautiful by African American men.
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