Obese women 4 times likelier to have unplanned pregnancy than slim ones
Heavy women, but not men, lack sex partners
Seeded on Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:11 PM EDT (msnbc.com)
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Well duh! Men tend to be more focused on physical attributes when it comes to finding a mate. As opposed to women who tend to value other attributes.
That's true but I'd bet at closing time in any bar a fat chick will make out just fine!
That is fu(ked up, and funny at the same time.
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Thank you for your vote, I put alot of time and thought into that comment.
Women just lie and spread. For a guy to have sex with a very overweight woman, he has to go through all the fatty rolls. I can see why they don't want to have sex with overweight woman.
Listen, it's all about the bottom dollar, so to speak. If heavy girls want to get boys, come on, let's be honest for once and start dishing out the dough.
Why else do fat guys get girls? Do I have to explain myself??
The men are lying. Most guys will have sex with any woman who doesn't try to escape.
How can that be? Somebody is lying, and I don't think its the women.
Microchick,
That's just not true. When it comes to Internet dating women look at physical attributes just as much as what guys do. Weight is more of a factor for men but, height is factor for women. A short guy is like being a fat woman. Although, a fat woman can work out(and should). No matter what a guy does he is not getting taller.
This phenomenon seems to change with the height of the woman as well. Tall girls 5'8 and above seem to on average accept a man who is the same height and even a smidgen shorter. Short girls typically have the female equivalent of Napoleon complex. They will only consider a man that is 5'9 and up...even if she is 5'0. Of course there are exceptions but, to the original point...women are just as physically superficial as men.
Lets see what those other values are that women place ahead of appearance: money, position, money, car, money, home, money, education, money, appearance. Well i guess microchick was right a man's appearance came in 10th place. lol
And in other news, researchers found that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
In related news, penniless men, but not women lack sex partners.
Funny AND true!
I'm 4'11". I have never met a man shorter than I am. lol
I'm not that tall and have never had a problem. Maybe you have other issues !
lol Eris if you met a man shorter than you, make sure to steal his pot of gold and get your three wishes up front
There has always been a double standard - THANK GOD! A chubby at the end of the bar at closing time is always an option.
LOL Broken Saint
I am pretty sure even a leprechaun is taller than me.
I'm just lucky most guys don't have anything against short women.
I don't tend to linger in gardens lest I be mistaken for a beardless yard gnome. LOL
I have found the reasoning for the amount of sex had is sometimes quite different than the report says.
Thin women are very conscious about their body and body type. They are usually hunting for men and and putting out to find self validation. A woman with a little poundage has a more "rounded" life so to speak - not as shallow. You will find the thinner women in bars or other meet and greet areas trolling for men. Women having more sex are the ones who will break an engagement with someone to go out at a moments notice with a man who has just called them. Or can't be happy unless they are with a man, or have a man to take them somewhere. They are always looking for a boyfriend to make them happy or feel complete.
Hate to tell you... we all might know the needy fat woman, and that is the one who is being made fun on this thread. But there are more out there that are just fine, thin and fat, living happy normal lives, with out the need to be glued to a man. That has to be a real ego blow to the men. So keep joking.
"I don't tend to linger in gardens lest I be mistaken for a beardless yard gnome"
Beardless is my standard.
JoMan, you make some good points. Perhaps it hasn't occurred to people that thinner women are possibly more promiscuous than heavy women and might just have lower standards (which would explain why the big guys are still gettin' somthin'). "Less partners" for a heavy woman could just mean 5 or 6 partners compared to, say, 50 for a thinner woman who just doesn't care who she sleeps with.
lol Eris! Short women are hot!!
suprised our government doesnt start making quotas for its citizens to have sex with a heavy woman for every skinny woman. we dont want to discriminate now....and whats up with them getting unplanned pregnancies......thats not fair.......its now law...every woman has to at least have one unplanned pregnacy in her lifetime....or they are discriminating.....we have to make everything in this world equal you know.
Yeah, but that's why we're glad for tall people. More shade!! LOL
And they can reach the stuff on the top shelf.
If the fat broads lack sex partners it’s probably because they’re not where the prospective men are. They need to be at bars at closing time where there will most likely be any number of candidates to choose from.
Wet Willy, my theory is that the big girls aren't lacking sex partners, they just aren't sleeping with more men than they can count, like all the skinny girls out there.
So if men primarily focus on how a woman looks, what's wrong with women being primarily focused on a man's wallet? They're both pretty superficial values, though one will keep a roof over your head and the other ....well...won't. Doesn't seem to me like one value is any better than the other.
Jane, seems reasonable to me.
All you chubby woman without sex partners Just email me. OK, Because there ain't nothing like a chubby woman, between the sheets if you know what I mean.
sorry I'm happy being a size 2 :)
Lord ap11 I love you being a size 2, alway love a woman height/ weight proportionate. I much prefer thinner than heavier. Jusus you can all those fat babes I certainly don't want them.
Ya baby, the men who have been with me never had a complaint and usually came back for more!
full figured women are sexy. I'll pass on the size 2. eye candy is nice on the arm for a date, but BiG poppa Pump the BiG Bad booty Daddy needs a real woman in the bedroom LMAO!!
Doesn't anyone notice the blunder in this story? First a fat woman has a hard time obtaining a partner, but she's FOUR TIMES more likely to get pregnant?
Clue- fat chicks are desperate because of their lack of self esteem, because of their fat. So they are more likely to put out. Easy math. I think the issue w/the study is the interviewer asked if they had a hard time finding a partner (meaning long term) and that would be right. Getting some-some? as some other poster said, at closing time it's easy.
Ew on fat chicks.
It just costs more to feed the plumper ones once you are done - unless you have a White Castle open 24hrs.
You have to love their folds.
ma - Great source of mushrooms!
Like this is a surprise!!!!!
You must be kidding. They actually did a study on this? Who is paying for this kind of study and why?
The money could be used for so many more important things.
Like a gym membership
Cindy, you are right. This is only news to the french apparently. This is like a FNN round table where they say fat women eat too many hot dogs. Shame on you AP.
France ranks 23rd globally for obesity with a percentage of 9.4%. the US of course is #1 ranked at 30%. You have to wonder about their sample group. They must be the most miserable people in France.
"Obese people are at higher risk anyway for diabetes, depression and urinary stress incontinence, all of which can hinder sex."
So how in the world does being overweight lead to pi$$ing on oneself? As if they aren't having a hard enough time getting laid. Now they are diseased, pissy, smelly, sad and fat.
In science, its not enough to say "it is obvious"... you need well constructed data gathering that is treated statistically to be able to say "this seems to be the situation"
a false assumption could cause numerous failures in further studies.. knowledge must be built on firm foundations... good basic research provides this foundation...and in a world of ever increasing obesity we need good foundations to solve the problem
I just want to know how much this guy got paid to tell us this. Any college guy or woman could tell you a slender girl gets a lot more sex than fat girls. These people have a firm grasp of the obvious and got someone to pay them for it.
The study was done in France, where obviously they consider this sort of thing worthy of large government grants.
Like computers, statistics have a 'garbage in-garbage out' component.
The sequel: Poor men, but not poor women, lack sex partners.
LMAO!!!!
Now that's funny!
Definitely older and wiser. LMAO
Unless the poor men like fat women...
So true.
And who are they?
Dr. Klahn: Refuse, found in waterfront bars.
Loo: Shanghaied?
Dr. Klahn: Just lost drunken men who don't know where they are and no longer care.
Prisoner #1: Where are we?
Prisoner #2: I don't care!
Loo: And these?
Dr. Klahn: These are lost drunken men who don't know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don't drink.
Prisoner #3: I don't know who I am!
Prisoner #4: Yeah. and I don't drink.
Dr. Klahn: Guards!
[moves prisoners]
Dr. Klahn: Do you care?
Prisoner #5: No.
Dr. Klahn: Put this man in cell #1, and give him a drink.
Guard: What do you drink?
Prisoner #5: I don't care.
~Kentucky Fried Movie~
Didn't they say for the other prisoner "Take him to Detroit?", and then they drag him off screaming? We were IN Detroit when we saw this movie for the first time, laughed so hard we almost missed the rest of the movie. I think the screaming prisoner was singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop ("On and On"). Thanks for the memories...
"You have my gratitude...."
One of the all-time-comedy-double-talk skits. When the agent arrived on Han's Island, one man was beheaded by a sword attached to Han's stump. The next prisoner was sent to Detroit.
Why is it kung-fu masters never score?
I LOVE BBW's (Big Beautiful Women)!!! I am married to one and there is absolutely no substitute for the size of breasts some of them have. I would never, ever, go back to a regular sized woman. I am an average sized guy by the way.
The study forgot to mention that obese men are still men...and will screw anything that moves.
Place 25 women at a Chippendales and 25 men at a Topless bar and let's compare maniacs any day.
Actually, I think it is the other way around. Men will screw anything that stops moving long enough.
That's not true, the body gets cold if you wait too long.
My beautifully, muscled body does NOT want some female who looks like her name is OINK JOHNSON, or CHEESEBURBER CLARA.
AARRGH!
You must have a lot of mirrors in your house to adore yourself.
while admiring your beautifully muscled body Oink Johnson or Cheesburger Clara doesn't want LIMP DICK WILLIE or Mr SHRINKING VIAGRA WITH A NUMBER 3 IN TOOL trying to GET a neat fit. All that muscle won't do a damn thing for you if you can't lift anything but your ego!
Snap! You tell'em!
You told him Clara
Lol, I see what you mean, and I agree. I think there are so many overweight people these days. However, you seem like you would have a hard time getting a female to be with you, fat or not. Nobody on this commenting board gives a crap how "beautifully muscled" your body is. You seem like a narcissistic jerk off. With the way you described how awesomely hot you are, you must be gay.
Oh, and its CHEESEBURGER, not CHEESEBURBER. With a "G". Smart one...
Hey, SpaceZimmy... You sound like a jealous, potbellied bucket of lard. Me? Never gay, and getting females is not hard work.
This is a COMEDY VINE, folks! Have some fun.
My bad on the previous "cheeseburger" spelling. I was eating & typing @ the same time. Heh! Heh!
Heh! Reminds me of a guy I worked with who would constantly check out his appearance in ANY shiny surface (including door knobs, glass, cans, etc.). When we pointed this out to him, his response was, "Well, of course."
Despite the fact that he was a fairly good looking guy, he always had trouble keeping a girlfriend. Can't imagine why....
There's the irony! Fat dudes get chicks and fat chicks get the curb, but chicks can check themselves out in the mirror any time and dudes cannot. Any super good looking guy is "probably gay", but gay women are looked to be spiked hair hermaphrodites. - Hilarious world we all live in!!!
I say "F" whomever you want as long as it is approved by both parties!
Women who are obsessed by their appearance are just as annoying and shallow as the men. For some reason, though, it takes men longer to notice how annoying these women are. Things that make you go "hmmmm....," I guess.
Nothin' wrong with NOT BEING POTBELLIED/OBESE! I'm GLAD I'm not. Lots of people on this comedy vine seem very hurt and insulted that everyone does not have a sloppy body. Then, they twist having a nice body into some ego trip or vanity. I'm glad I don't like the OINK JOHNSONS & CHEESEBURGER CLARAS of the world.
"Let them eat cake!"
Now, back to my daily exercising....Heh! Heh!
Hey....all the showers in this house spray olive oil...WTF?
Ever notice how guys that workout a lot and brag about their chiseled bodies like to park in handicapped spaces and fire lanes because they don't have time to walk in from a parking lot?
I guess there are many lonely fat women in the United States...since we are the fattest nation
eat away!!!!!!
What a completely idiotic report. It must be a slow news day and they hope we'll believe the pop science just as they suckered us with "global warming".
Does anyone realize obese women have a harder time concieving? Soooo if they are 4 times as likely to have unplanned pregnacies I'd say they are getting lots more sex than the thinner women.
There are many many sites on the Internet specifically for those who enjoy the non-skinny. You ever notice they keep moving the obese scale (the scale that determines who is obese) lower and lower so more and more people are being considered obese?
Through out human history skinny women were considered sickly and not worthy of marriage material. It has only been since the late 1960's or 1970's that thin women were considered desirable. Thin women seem to have more medical problems.
Personally... I'm what is considered a chubby chaser :-)
(yes, I do have a limit of what is too big, it is a personal limit... there are those who like their women larger. I believe there is someone for everyone.)
It is the progressives that seem to like putting everyone in a funnel and if when you come out the other end your not as they desire your somehow defective.... In fact it's God keeping us each individuals.
Way to twist this around to somehow malign "progressives". If you like fat girls, good for you, but don't blame liberals. Maybe it's just that conservatives tend to be from the south where they eat a lot more fat and grease and fried pork rinds. But hey, how about that Hillary? She's got some fine "cankles", huh Bubba? I bet you find that new Supreme Court nominee attractive too, huh? I bet you get all hot and bothered for Rosie O'Donnel too. Not like that Skeletor look alike Ann Coulter.
Devlin is a real man! And the majority of men have a preference of women who have curves. No need to assault his tastes not everyone likes a toothpick!
Maybe it's just that conservatives tend to be from the south where they eat a lot more fat and grease and fried pork rinds.
I always love when this gets trotted out by people who think they're clever yet don't realize that of the former Confederate states, all but one or two have black populations significantly above the national average.
And we know they don't vote the elephant.
Um, no, they do not.
I have to question the whole "obese women have a harder time conceiving" theory that is tossed about, even in the medical community. Every single woman I have known who has had to resort to fertility treatment has been skinny (not thin - brittle skinny). Just want to see the studies and data backing this one up.
flbikerchick
I beg to disagree as does the medical community.
The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).Obese women trying to become pregnant experience longer times to conception, even if they are young and have a regular menstrual cycle.
http://bionews.zampbioworld.org/2009/03/04/18353
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A study carried out by the researchers of Amsterdam’s Academic Medical Center has shown remarkable facts that chances of conceiving a child by obese/overweight women have less chances than women of standard weight. The study has stated some amazing facts that women having a Body Mass Index of 35 have a less likeliness of 26% of conceiving a child than women having BMI of 21-29. Women face a less chance of 43% of conception with BMI of 40 than the one’s having a normal weight.
http://www.ayurvediccure.com/womenshealth/problems-that-overweight-women-face-during-conception-or-pregnancy/
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While it is possible for an obese woman to get pregnant, she is 18% less likely to conceive.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5591640_pregnant-obese.html
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According to the study, women who are obese are 28 percent less likely to conceive and have a successful pregnancy. Those who were overweight were 14 percent less likely to have a successful pregnancy.
http://www.examiner.com/x-25811-Nashville-Infertility--Miscarriage-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Overweight-and-obese-women-less-likely-to-get-pregnant
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It may take longer for overweight women to conceive than their normal weight peers. One study showed that obese women on average took 11 months to become pregnant, compared to an average of seven to eight months in average sized women
http://www.fisher-price.com/fp.aspx?st=665&e=expertadvice&catnamestart=c&ccat=PS_Conception&content=274912
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ScienceDaily (Dec. 12, 2007) — A new study of obesity and the probability of pregnancy has shown that a woman's chances of a spontaneous pregnancy steadily decrease the fatter she is.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071211233947.htm
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(Reuters) - Obesity decreases the chances that a woman will get pregnant, and the more obese she is, the worse her prospects of conception, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINN1155920920071212
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I do my research.
And I thank you for it! Not your typical Newsvine poster. I also learned something I thought I already knew.
Women outside the "normal" weight range, whether too fat or too thin, have a harder time conceiving. If the weight is low enough, as in some female atheletes, she can actually stop menstruating. However, being obese also plays havoc with your hormones.
Devlin, please keep commenting. We need more people like you--people with open minds and FACTS.
Well, I am glad this information is out! My BMI is not within the so called "normal range" so I must be considered fat, I've never had a problem. Seems that I have found men who prefer women with "meat" on their bones. But I would like to know what is the purpose of this study? Whoever wrote this article is obviously torn between fat and obese!Damn this is a f*&^^up article!
More of a cushion, better the pushin.....I think that's how it goes.
Even a dog wants more than a bone! More cushion for the pushin, more motion for the ocean! lol
Everyone knows that BMI is just a marker for trouble. If you are in great shape but are built "squatty", your BMI will look like it is out of range, even though you are not "at risk". Belly fat is the best overall marker for trouble (unless of course you have a flat stomach and 200lb ankles) Ha.
If you want a corpse--go to a cemetary.
I'll take a fat girl over a skinny girl any day.
We need to team up. You take the fat ones and I will take the skinny ones.
Sex with skinny women is as much fun as wrestling with wire coat hangers
LMAO!!! that's funny..wire coat hangers!
this is a joke about abortion... i just know it.
lmfao!!
Or maybe there are a bunch of fat guys lying about how much sex they are getting
Woman find a fat wallet to be very attractive.
Fat guys need love too and thinner women just like thin men love some meat. The wallet is the dessert!
you mean ... attractive people attract more people than unattractive people ?.........unbelievable !!
Yep follows to reason that fat is not beautiful and fat people attract guess what? fat people. So anyone got an idea why the parents of obese children should not be charged with child abuse and child neglect?
My daughter has been heavy since she was little. Her husband looks like someone out of a "boy band".
He's prob. gay.
She probably tags his gay ass with a strap-on.
Well Duh!
You have to roll a fat chick in flour to find the wet spot! Too much trouble!
If you KNEW how to lay the pipe you wouldn't have to "roll a fat chick to find the wet spot". Obviously the fat chick would have to "find the weenie" before you can roll!
yo if u 69 the bytch be careful u dont smother urself!
Tajapreshus
Something tells me your fat, with not much of a sense of humor. That's two strikes, usually fat girls have at least cool personalities. You just suck, I bet you never got the opportunity to even try and find a "weenie" just my thoughts.
Why do you assume Tajapreshus is a woman?
oh lord anther fat chick, do u wanna know how i assume?
That's what snorkels are for!
I wonder, did anybody take into account that this study was based completely on self-reporting??? They interviewed fat men and fat women and based the results on their answers. Come on!!! Guys are notorious for exaggerating their sex partners - fat men and thin ones. Unless they had the interviewers follow these people around for a couple of years and take a tally of how many times they actually had sex, this study has little value. Maybe the study just shows that fat women are more honest than fat men.
So true!
Do you think fat guys whack off more than skinny guys?
Or is that about even, too?
I'd also like to add that this study was done in France. I don't agree that this is the case in the US, in fact I think it's the other way around. This is just based on my own limited observations, but I doubt I'm the only one who thinks so.
Fat men lie about how much they're getting just like thin men do, and fat women have "unplanned" pregnancies because they a) desperately want the guy to stay around and think the kid will help b) have much more limited opportunities to have a child of someone they would actually want to have a child from. "obese women were less likely to ask for birth control services" Making no attempt to remain un-pregnant is planning to get pregnant or more specifically to trap a man, taking birth control and still getting pregnant is "unplanned".
Here's a thought: being overweight is often due to excess drinking, as all forms of alcohol contain lots of calories. Maybe drinking a lot is a factor common to both obesity and unplanned pregnancy, ya think?
It's no secret that obesity causes erectile dysfuction since most likely you have high cholesterol and high tryglercerides thus poor blood circulation. 33 % of all obese people are in denial.
It also means your blood pressure and blood sugar is elevated as well.
All these 5 factors are interlated and interconnected. My I suggest if your obese to "start dancing to the music".
One of my favorite Sly songs and an easy enjoyable way of burning it off. !!
Also cut down on Sugar, Salt and alcohol !!
It is just a matter of taste.
I knew guys at U MASS when I was in school that were into "hogging". They even had fat girl porn back in the days of written porn.
Besides, a fat chick can suck a golf ball through a garden hose!
Your garden hose comment makes NO sense.
I knew guys like you"Bend Overs, when I was at USC they would Bottom out every chance they got,they loved the strap on play. Still do! Sometimes they enjoyed the showers better!
Angel'sLovely-
Sure it does. Try and visualize it in your mind and you'll see what a feat it would be.
Also helps if you've seen Full Metal Jacket.
The thing is...why would anyone do such a thing? I mean, I get that it's a joke, but completely absurd. Anyway, I've never seen the movie Full Metal Jacket. I guess that's why it makes no sense and isn't humorous to me.
The Obese woman is a beautiful human, they just need more positive guidance...
See!
Here's an example of a guy that'll do fat chicks!
Way to go Beev!
It just comes down to physical preference. I'm simply not attracted to fat men. Also, this study was done in FRANCE. The French aren't usually fat, so fat in their culture is still far more unacceptable than it is in the U.S. or the U.K. There are many, many fat Americans that enjoy a healthy sex life. I see fat people (both men and women) that are married in this country all the time!
That stood out to me as well, the fact that this is a study of European sexual tastes, not American. I don't think this is the case in the US I think it's the other way around.
Plenty of American guys like their ladies "Rubenesque" or even downright rotund. There are millions of pages of BBW porn on the Net. (Or so I'm told. I am of course completely unfamiliar with any of that sort of thing, being the saintly soul that I am.)
As many Europeans have different views about, say, personal hygiene than we Yanks do, it's not a stretch to suppose their sexual tastes are somewhat different as well. European guys probably ARE a little more demanding than we are when it comes to a woman's weight.
I'm guessing, though, that European women are as fond of the contents of a guy's wallet as their American counterparts are.
and yo....
lest we forget.........
BIG SLOPPY TITTIES!!!!
(o) (o)
What's the matter? a fat girl did you wrong?
Dude.....do you know how to read? I don't mind critics but you make no sense!
As a guy and trying not to be too insensitive, Do you really want to get emotionally involved with a woman whose mortality rate is not very good. As a man your setting yourself up for premature heart ache even though you are most definately a beautiful person. This may explain the reason men do not get involved with obese women. People who have been thrashed the most ususally care the most.
That's like saying a woman shouldn't get involved with a man who's diabetic.
I wouldn't get involved with a man with diabetes who did NOT vigorously monitor and treat his disease, exercise regularly, eat healthfully, and keep their A1c down.
Over time, he would become impotent, lose limb sensation, have eye damage, and suffer from heart disease. No thanks....
Everyone has personal responsibility to follow medical advice so as to be in the best physical and mental condition possible for their partner. Fat people aren't holding up their end of the bargain.
Great idea. Everyone you date must get a complete physical and release the results to you. They should provide a genogram too, since you want your children to be genetically perfect. Do you also carry a photo from your sweetheart's most recent colonoscopy in your wallet?
Wasn't Traci Madison a porno star in the 80's?
Fat chick that would do two or three guys at once.