有此一說／看豐滿美女 男人如喝酒嗑藥

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2010.02.26 04:05 am

很多女性一味想讓自己瘦下來，卻不知道真正能讓男性神魂顛倒的，反而是身材凹凸有致的豐滿美女。最新研究指出，「沙漏型」身材的豐滿女性能讓男性感到興奮，效果和喝酒、嗑藥相當。

英國「每日郵報」報導，科學家發現，女性凹凸有致的身材能夠活化男性大腦內和「獎賞」感覺有關的區域，使其產生愉悅感。這解釋了為什麼珍妮佛羅培茲（Jennifer Lopez）和碧昂絲（Beyonce Knowles）之類的流行樂女星常被視為「性感女神」。

研究員先讓14名年齡平均為25歲的男子觀看7名女子的背面裸照，然後讓這些女子進行整形手術，將腰部脂肪分配到臀部，但體重維持不變。

腦部掃瞄顯示，這些男性看了手術之後的女性，腦內和「獎賞」感覺有關的區塊會產生反應，其中包括通常只對藥物及酒精有反應的區域。

科學家說，「沙漏」身材女性比較容易懷孕，生出的小孩也較健康，罹患心臟病的風險較低。這提供了男性會喜歡身材豐滿女子的遺傳學基礎。

喬治亞州葛威納特學院（Georgia Gwinnett College）認知神經演化學家普拉特克（Steven Platek）表示，這些研究發現不只解釋了男性購買「花花公子」（Playboy）之類成人書刊的原因，也有助於進一步了解色情成癮和相關疾病，像是不 看黃色書刊或影片就會有勃起障礙。

他還說，這些發現有助於科學家探討外遇相關議題。

【2010/02/26 聯合報】

Looking at curvy women's bodies has the same effect on men as taking drugs: study

BY Rosemary Black
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, February 24th 2010, 3:20 PM

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Images of curvaceous women - like Scarlett Johansson, above - set off the reward centers in men's brains, according to a new study.

Men can get the same high from looking at a sexy, curvaceous woman that they do from drugs or alcohol, says a new study. The results may help explain why some men are so preoccupied with pornography, researchers said.

In the study, 14 men, whose average age was 25, were asked to rate how attractive they found photos of the nude derrieres of women before and after they had surgery to enhance their hips. The surgical procedures redistributed the women's weight by putting waist fat onto their butts.

The result: The mens' brain scans showed that viewing the women after surgery actually activated the regions of the brain that are linked with rewards, including the areas associated with responses to alcohol and drugs.

The idea that men seem hardwired to find attractive women rewarding shouldn’t come as a surpise.

"Hugh Hefner could have told us that by showing us how many zeroes are in his bank account," researcher Steven Platek, evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist at Georgia Gwinnett College in Georgia, told LiveScience.

Added Platek, "These findings could help further our understanding of pornography addiction and related disorders such as erectile dysfunction in the absence of pornography."

Men are wired to love women's curves for a reason, says psychotherapist Karol Ward, author of the book "Find Your Inner Voice."

"Curvy looks in a woman mean that she is good at reproduction, and so the man gets the message that this is someone they could procreate with," she explains. "The attraction has a lot to do with fertility."

Fidelity expert Danine Manette says that bigger-hipped women look like they are better at bearing children, and men are subconsciously drawn to them.

"There is something physiological that goes off in men that attracts them to these women," she explains. "It's not something that they are even aware of. But when it comes to pure animal attraction, men go for the women who look like their bodies are built for reproduction."

Platek, who with colleague Devendra Sing, described the findings online in the journal PLoS ONE, also noted that women size up other women "in an effort to determine their relative attractiveness and to maintain mate guarding - or, in other words, keep their mate away from optimally designed females."

Source: New York Daily News