Why do women generally have wider hips and larger breasts than men?

Also, why do many men find it attractive?
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Most Helpful Guys

  • Wider hip bones are to bear children. Females in related species to ours also store body fat on their hips/thighs/butt, where it's more visible (for quadrupeds) to advertise that they have sufficient fat stores to produce a child. Males find that attractive. Breasts are not actually large due to milk production (or only are engorged when actually breastfeeding). Human women have fat deposits on the breast as well, which related species don't. A leading hypothesis was that when humans became bipedal, women lacked the 'ass' visual cue when face to face with men. Similar curves in the breasts allowed another way to advertise fertility.

  • Most guys don't like "wide hips." We like slim hips, that are still full but feminine.

    Why do women generally have wider hips and larger breasts than men?
    • Really? I always thought most guys preferred large breasts and wide hips (as long as the woman isn't fat)

Most Helpful Girls

  • Wide hips allow for a better pregnancy process

    Breasts are usually larger because women hold fat in that area more, because we lactate and use it to feed babies.

    Men typically find these acctriativd, becaus of biological conditioning. Wide hips and large breats typically signal to men on a deeper level that she has good Gene's to make babies, this their deep desire to pass on their Gene's is triggered.

  • We have wider hips so that we will be able to deliver a child, and we have larger boobs to store/hold milk for when we breastfeed babies. Men are also biologically attracted to women with breasts and wider set hips because of reproductive purposes.

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  • don't you girls have mothers? how do you NOT know the basics of life by now?

  • Because they were made that way. Women have different bodies from men in many ways.

  • For surviving childbirth and for the child surviving their initial milk-only diet respectively.

  • Hips for giving birth, and breasts for feeding babies, it's due to evolution. The mothers who didn't have wide hips died at birth, and the women with small breasts starved their children, either way, their genes couldn't continue.

  • For making and nouritioning babies.

  • Cervical arch for childbirth.
    Breasts for lactation.

  • Babies.

  • Patriarchy

  • Those attributes are valuable for childbearing. A man's anatomy, even if he had a womb, would just get wrecked if he tried to carry a baby.

    The reason so many men find those traits attractive is because they are the opposite of what we have.

  • cause women make children. the breasts don't technically need to be large but it suggests fertility to the male and causes interest. just like wider hips. though with the hips there's another reason. it gives the impression of stability but also of "fat reserve". it's an evolutionaly remnant from a time where there was not a constant supply of food, so having reserve was vital for survival of giving birth and the months around that.

  • Really
    Are you serious?
    You dont know that as a 21 y old female?

  • We are built that way. Like guys have penises and girls have vaginas. Yeah. It is they way we are built.

  • Most men don't have breasts. As for the reasons giving birth and nursing.

  • Someone missed health class

  • Child birth And breastfeeding

  • Genetics. And because breasts and wonderful to look at. They develop young and mature in your twenties. I’d love to snuggle next to a pair

  • Biology. Did you not go to school or something?

  • Probably because women bear children and needs it.

  • Because they are beautiful

  • because they are women
    and yeah because they are men

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