Success is all in the measures: Androgenousness, curvaceousness, and starring frequencies in adult media actresses

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-304

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Fisher, Maryanne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Female attractiveness; Pornography; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BODY MASS; BREAST; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; SEXUAL AROUSAL; VALIDITY; WAIST HIP RATIO;

BEAUTY; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; DRAMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SEXUALITY; STEREOTYPING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33745968962     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-006-9021-y     Document Type: Article

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