I don't think
Libertine was saying anything negative about Rubenesque women...I think he was simply explaining the likely reasons concerning their allure without judgment.
A lot of our attitudes about women and their weight have really emerged in the last century, and most of them due to attempts to subdue female sexuality with the advent of mass distribution technology. Many women considered hot in the pre-Hayes Code era (between 1896-1933) were what we would call..."full-figured" is the best way of putting it, and I would happen to agree that the flesh of that body type carries a voracious and invigorating amourousness to it.
But when the Code went into affect, one of the stipulations was that clothing on women could no longer be body-hugging, and clothing styles were adopted to cloak the figure in drapery (hence the plethora of glamour and period pictures in the 1930s and 40s). Bust inspectors were real job titles given to real people to ensure that costumes adhered to standards set forth by the Code (although these standards weren't concretely established). One of the side effects of this was that women with narrow waists and large..."global endowments" were often the preferred choice because the size of their chests were perfect for prying the clothing away from their bodies, acting much like awnings. A generation or two of skinny, large-breastes women as the sex symbols for people growing up with movies established the big-tits-and-hourglass-waist as the cultural standard, thus paving the way for eating disorders and unecessary breast implants for generations to come.
So in many ways, attempts to confine sexuality for moral purification only ended up damaging society as a whole (although Drew would probably argue otherwise). But then again, moral crusaders largely champion and herald the end of the world so why would they give a fuck about the health of society since its illness only hastens the Judgment Day?
But from a technical standard, it IS about health overall. Skinny people are ectomorphic body types; full-figured or Rubenesque people are endomorphs; and UFC fighters are mesomorphs (all bone and muscle), ane each body type carreis with it certain levels of healthy equilibrium. So here's my measurement of Fat vs. Rubenesque:
FAT: an endomorphic body type with excessive levels of fat collecting into cellulite pockets layering disporportionately into the skin; breathing becomes laborious, and ambulatory capacity is hindered without the aid of degenerative nerve disorders or glandular imbalance; non-hereditary circulatory problems occur causing cardiac distress. Typically seen in Wal-Mart wobbling around themselves and yelling at their 8 kids (named Colton, Conner, Hunter, Derek, Lou-Ann, or Travis) in sleevless shirts and rat-tail heads that they aren't going to get that kind of cereal.
RUBENESQUE: Endomorph with normal levels of body content. Fat and weight levels consistent with height and age, and appendages are proportional. Skin wrinkles and blemishes are consistent with girth, and not due to cellulite sediment. Generally pleasant attitudes and quite ticklish with/without possible enlarged libido. Lots of fun and actually more attractive to men than often admitted. Famous examples:
Devinn Lane,
Calli Cox,
Crystal Renn, (and
Bella,
😀), etc.
So a FAT woman, in my opinion is simply an endomorph with an unhealthy lifestyle; someone who doesn't eat right and take care of themselves. But for a woman who does take care of their body and keeps it in balance, the copious flesh becomes succulent and rather alluring. The same applies for ectomorphs, who can look revolting when they lose too much weight and resemble skeletons. Both look UNHEALTHY because their bodies warp into disproportionate forms. But when they're balanced just right...YYYYYYYYYYYYUUUUUUUMMMAY!
By the by, I don't think that
TicklishGiggle's body counts as Rubenesque on account of the fact that she's
5-foot-10 and she might be underweight for her height
On a final note, we could all stand to tone ourselves up a bit, some more so than others (my tits are getting almost as big as Bella's) but that comes with exercise, not dieting or losing weight; it's enhancing what we've lost, not losing what we have.
) has nothing to do with height. The fact that her proportions differ from other, equally rubenesque women due similar shapes overall but different bodies, because they're different people, doesn't make the term invalid for her nor for the purposes of this thread. The actual measurements are surely different, but the definition doesn't change because of that. A woman under 5 feet tall with dimensions similar to Crystal's would still be considered rubenesque.
