"Some researchers have found that the waist-hip ratio (WHR) is a significant measure of female attractiveness. Women with a 0.7 WHR are usually rated as more attractive by men from European cultures.[13] Beauty icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren have or had ratios close to 0.7, even though they have different weights and heights. In other cultures, preferences appear to vary according to some studies,[14] ranging from 0.6 in China,[15] to 0.8 or 0.9 in parts of South America and Africa,[16][2][17] and divergent preferences based on ethnicity, rather than nationality, have also been noted.[18][19]
Note: In the studies referenced above, only frontal WHR preferences differed significantly among racial and cultural groups. When actual (circumferential) measurements were made, the preferred WHR tended toward the expected value of 0.7 universally. The apparent differences are most likely due to the different body fat storage patterns in different population groups. For example, women of African descent tend to store their fat in their buttocks more than women of other groups. Therefore, their WHR as viewed from the front may appear to be much greater than when viewed from the side. The inverse may be true of women of East Asian ancestry. Therefore, African men appear to be more likely to value a woman's small WHR in profile and Asian men may tend to place more value on a smaller frontal WHR, compared to European men."
It basically does. It says Asian men prefer their women to have .6 WTR from the front. European men prefer a .7 WTR from the front, while African and South American men prefer a .8 or .9 WTR from the front. But when you take into account the actual measurements it comes out to be .7 across the board.
So if you take the average Asian, European, and African woman and they all are the same height, weight and all have a waist that is 26" and hips that are 37" on paper you would assume that they all would carry their weight the same. But the black women from the front would look more straight up and down while the Asian and white women would look more curvy from the front. But when they turn to the side the black woman's butt would stick out further while the white woman's butt would be flatter, and the Asian woman's butt even flatter. If the black woman has a bigger butt then her hips would have to be narrower to still have the same measurements as the white and Asian women. The opposite would have to be true for white and Asian women. If their butts stick out less from the side, then their hips must be wider from the front to still keep the same measurements as the black girl.
