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What Is Sexy?
Byline: Brooke Le Poer Trench
We asked four experts from wildly diverging fields what the word "sexy" means to them.
THE ANTHROPOLOGIST
Birds do it, bees do it--and anthropologists explain why we do it. Lionel Tiger, the Charles Darwin professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, shares his research and insights on what human sexiness is really all about.
In anthropology, what is sexiness? There isn't a formal definition anyone can agree on, but there are proven constants in terms of what men find sexy: large breasts, a small waist, and wide hips. This is a holdover from times when women with wider hips were more ...
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