You stop fixating on MILF’s.
Researchers in America examined photographs of actresses and pored over back issues of Playboy magazine to see whether there was a correlation between attraction and national prosperity.
They found that women with mature facial features — smaller eyes, larger chins and stronger faces — were popular during recessions, while baby-faced actresses did well during booms.
They concluded that Playboy’s “playmates of the year” — academically referred to as PMOY — are likely to be taller, heavier and more mature- looking during hard times. They are smaller, more curvaceous and have bigger eyes when the economy is thriving.
The findings are revealed in the paper Playboy Playmate Curves — Changes in Facial and Body Feature Preferences Across Social and Economic Conditions, which will be published later this year in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
The author of the study, Dr Terry Pettijohn, is a social psychologist at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. He said: “When social and economic conditions were difficult, older, heavier, taller PMOYs with larger waists, smaller eyes, larger waist-to-hip ratios, smaller bust-to-waist ratios and smaller body mass index values were selected.
“As social and economic conditions improved younger, lighter, shorter PMOYs with smaller waists, larger eyes, smaller waist-to-hip ratios, larger bust-to-waist ratios and larger body mass index values were preferred.”
Of course, it could just be a sign of an Oedipus Complex.
I thought there would be pictures.