The men I spoke with about this “new woman" type applaud it too. It seems they want to love more of us than we realized. The saying that “only a dog wants a bone and even he wants some meat on it” is a truism and not, it seems, just for dogs. Men want some meat too and they want it on their women!

And here’s something else that’s noteworthy. Researchers in a survey at the University of Sydney in Australia have found that men who desired a curvy healthy woman were exceptionally comfortable with their male sexuality having a strong sense of their own “maleness.” So real men love real women!  Yes!

Comments from the study found that men are direct in wanting real women with real curves. One said:

“The “head on a stick” look on women is not attractive. I never understood why women starve themselves to look like that. They don’t look good, they look starved!” .

Another responded:  

“A skinny woman, unless she is naturally thin, looks too much like a little girl. That is not something most men want.”

Yet another commented: 

“I definitely want to feel flesh not bones on a woman. I’m not talking about obesity at all, just normal women who look like women, sexy, full curves and all.”

A sexy woman comes in all sizes and shapes, no doubt about that.  Cindi Leive  is to be praised and possibly nominated for sainthood for her stance on using healthy models in her magazine.

Isn’t it nice to see a woman to whom other women can relate? A woman of healthy weight, attractive, and vibrant, who is happy in her own body and who looks like you? I definitely thinks so. Few, if any of us, have anything in common with a model who looked starved and unhappy. Isn't it great to know that “having a little extra” is also so appealing to the men in our lives?

Yay for normal, healthy women! 

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