Curvy

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Sorry.. this has nothing to do with aspieness, but I'm gonna post it anyway.

When someone in the innumerable posts about turn ons uses the word curvy - what does it mean?
It's this extremely flexible word that makes me none the wiser. Is it purely proportional, geometric, does it denominate size?

Also pictures or names of who you think is curvy would be interesting. I'm expecting people to vary widely in their definitions

No ideal what people mean by that either but mainly it is females who use this term.

So I guess it is reference to breast and other curves. Please forgive me for the suggestive language.

I myself would like to have some balance in a women, extremes when it comes to anything is rarely ever good.

Curvy, full figured, a few extra pounds, BBW... all euphemisms for fat.

Because you know, it is easier to invent some new word to apply to oneself and make oneself feel better for 2 seconds, instead of fixing the actual problem for good.

I'm primarily talking about men using it as a positive therm and being attracted to it. Just specifying.

not this

this

My husband uses this term to describe me (and he's an Aspie). He says it means I look like a woman - with a chest and hips- an hourglass shape.

some people like this others don't.

There's nothing wrong with a woman having curves. That is how most are built genetically, naturally. Sure some might look like anorexic girraffes (but I bet a lot of them are NOT natural- surgery and eating disorders). Sure, someone obese might use the word to feel better, but that doesn't mean all women with curves are fat. A woman who is seriously underweight due to an eating disorder might use the word "slender"...but that doesn't mean that anyone who uses that word has a problem they are trying to hide. Men who use the word "curvy" are most likely refering to a woman of a HEALTHY weight who has an hourglass shape.

I'm pretty sure I've seen "curvy" listed as a turn-on alongside the word "slim" in some cases, so I guess to those people the term has little to do with weight. I usually tend to associate the word with a tiny bit of extra weight myself, though, in addition to the usual image of a more rounded, feminine shape. But that might just be because my definition of attractive includes full-figured people as well; I see it as a positive rather than a negative.

Holy moly, is that real? And is she on a catwalk there?

I think some people use it to mean 'womanly', and some people use it to mean overweight. No way of telling which without seeing for yourself.

The Commodores defined it as being 36-24-36...

The term 'curvy' typically refers to the figure-eight shape of women, formed by breasts, wide hips, and a thin waist. In my opinion, it does not inherently mean fat. There are different body types - a women can have wide hips and a small chest, a large chest and smaller hips, small everything, or big everything. Evolutionarily speaking, it is primarily the hips that get a man's attention, as they signify better probabilities for childbirth. Breasts are for feeding young; the attraction to breasts is almost entirely a social construct.

That was a remarkably ignorant, insensitive thing to say. It would appear that you don't really know how that works.

Once the weight has been put there by Mother Nature, it is near impossible to get rid of it without drastic surgical intervention. Even with the best intentions, willpower, eating correctly, it is difficult to shrink the fat cells once they are deposited, and they make chemical demands on the body to be refilled. Rather than develop a self-hatred for being unable to do the impossible, it is healthier to exercise for fitness, eat for health, and worry less about the measurements.

It's simple: when a man says he likes curvy women, he means he likes women with humongous boobs and an impossibly small waist. When a woman says she's curvy, she means she's fat.

The first would be someone similar to Kate Moss's body type.

It means a woman with defined hips and chest pretty much. You can be a size 8 and curvy, or a size 8 with a boyish figure.

Some women call fat "curvy" and usually they have a chest, but people get mixed up and think all fat people are curvy and its an excuse to be fat when it isn't.

Politically incorrect as it may sound, this is almost exclusively how I've seen the term "curvy" being used in my experiences.