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Do guys like curvy hips?

Shapely hips in women are linked with fertility and overall health. As such, it makes sense evolutionarily speaking that studies across cultures have shown men typically find hourglass figures sexy.

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Watching a curvaceous woman can feel like a reward in the brain of men, much as drinking alcohol or taking drugs might, research now reveals. These new findings might help explain the preoccupation men can have toward pornography, scientists added. Shapely hips in women are linked with fertility and overall health. As such, it makes sense evolutionarily speaking that studies across cultures have shown men typically find hourglass figures sexy. To explore the roots of this behavior, researchers had 14 men, average age 25, rate how attractive they found pictures of the naked derrieres of seven women before and after cosmetic surgery that gave them more shapely hips. These operations did not reduce weight but just redistributed it, by implanting fat harvested from the waists into the buttocks. Brain scans of the men revealed that seeing post-surgery women activated parts of the brain linked with rewards, including regions associated with responses to drugs and alcohol. It might not be especially surprising that evolution wired the male brain to find attractive bodies rewarding. "Hugh Hefner could have told us that by showing us how many zeroes are in his bank account," said researcher Steven Platek, an evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. "But there's more to it than buying Playboy, Maxim, or FHM." For instance, "these findings could help further our understanding pornography addiction and related disorders, such as erectile dysfunction in the absence of pornography," he explained. "These findings could also lend to the scientific inquiry about sexual infidelity." The scientists also found that changes in a woman's body-mass index or BMI — a common measure of body fat — only really affected brain areas linked to simple visual evaluations of size and shape. This may be evidence that body fat influences judgments of female beauty due more to societal norms than brain wiring. "The media portrays women as wholly too skinny," Platek said. "It's not just about body fat, or body mass index."

What do women think?

Future research could also investigate the effects that attractive figures have on the female brain. "It turns out women find similar optimally attractive female bodies as attention-grabbing, albeit for different reasons," Platek said. "Women size up other women in an effort to determine their own relative attractiveness and to maintain mate guarding — or, in other words, keep their mate away from optimally designed females." These findings should not be construed as saying that men are solely programmed by their biology, nor that "women without optimal design should just hang up their mating towel," Platek added. Platek and his colleague Devendra Singh detailed their findings online Feb. 5 in the journal PLoS ONE.

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What parts of a man do you touch?

We list the 6 erogenous zones in men that you should start working on! Ears. Sensually swirl your tongue into his ears, nipple and suck on his ear lobes. ... Neck. Men have certain erogenous points around the neck - it can above the collarbone or at the end of his hairline. ... Scrotum. ... Nipples. ... Perineum. ... Skin.

Women generally know how to make their men happy, but do you know there are erogenous zones on his body that will drive him crazy?We list the 6 erogenous zones in men that you should start working on!Sensually swirl your tongue into his ears, nipple and suck on his ear lobes. Whisper into his ‘right’ ear what you would like to do to him, as the right ear is connected with the part of the brain that controls happiness.Men have certain erogenous points around the neck - it can above the collarbone or at the end of his hairline. The best option is to work on two pleasure points at the same time, like nibbling his ear lobes while caressing the nape of his neck.Scrotum is sensitive and responds best to light fingertip caresses, licking, gentle sucking, stroking. If the fondling is not tender, the skin loses sensitivity. Remember that the testicles are sensitive and should never be gripped hard or bitten in the heat of passion – which can kill his ardour forever.Always ask if you can suck them, all men don’t enjoy it. Again gently!The ridge between the back of his scrotum and his anus is the Perineum. Pressure with the fingertips at the mid point of the ridge can induce an erection or restore a flagging one.Explore every inch of his body from his big toe to his big grin. Massage the length of the spine, buttocks, inside of the thigh, biceps with lotion. Physical contact itself is one way to heighten the passion.Read more Personal Health, Diet & Fitness stories on www.healthmeup.com

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