Tits and Bums

[randyrobert]

Always (since age of 14) been a tit man myself so the apparently recent interest in “booty” may have passed me by. The first time I was aware that guys were interested was seeing the bond film Goldfinger in a cinema in Cairo way back in 1965 when a well -shaped ass was turned to the audience and they went wild.

But more recently-and maybe it’s the coming of Brazilian or ebony providers that a shapely bum seems to be such an object of attention.

So have I been missing out all these years or is bum fancying a relatively recent phenomena?  Or has it been around since the invention of the bustle in 19th century? 

[B4bcock]

It's been around since Adam took a bite of the apple proferred by Eve and thought to himself "I'd rather get me teeth into your tasty peach, love."

[PhelTGrik]

Hips and bust have been pyshiological markers of fitness for child bearing/rearing.

Perhaps as Europeans encountered certain African tribes where exceptionally prominent glute development occured as a genetic freak it shifted attention to fashion trying accentuating what little European women tended to have in the posterior.

Exotic (relatively to whatever group you're taking the perspective of) traits tend to be more favoured in terms of sexual selection e.g. women with larger breasts will attract more attention than those with smaller ones. Fuller lips rate more highly than thinner ones, tan/olive skin appeals more than pasty pale white (mainly because we see this as being indicative of health whereas go back to the 19th century and the 'swarthy/ruddy' complexion was more associated with lower social class)

Getting more on to assess specifically...the exotic element aside, large or well defined glutes these days also tend to indicate some kind of athleticism which again goes back to the visual markers some people's hind brain (no pun intended) twig onto for the purposes of sexual selection.

[fakeboobslover]

I believe it has less to do with service providers in particular. There has been a general trend or change in ideals of "female sexyness" over the last 20-30 years. It has also been reflected in the mass media - if not actively transported by them.

The 90s were much more focused on big boobs (think: Baywatch, newsstand magazines, also porn), whereas over the last 10-15 years the attention has gradually shifted quite a bit to bums (in music videos, on Instagram, etc.).

90s Pamela Anderson (who was world-famous for her two "ample assets") has been supplanted by Kim Kardashian as the epitome of the this trend.

[randyrobert]

There has been a general trend or change in ideals of "female sexyness" over the last 20-30 years. It has also been reflected in the mass media - if not actively transported by them.

The 90s were much more focused on big boobs (think: Baywatch, newsstand magazines, also porn), whereas over the last 10-15 years the attention has gradually shifted quite a bit to bums (in music videos, on Instagram, etc.).
90s Pamela Anderson (who was world-famous for her two "ample assets") has been supplanted by Kim Kardashian as the epitome of the this trend.

Oooh I feel a PhD project coming on

[catweazle]

The bustle, as worn in Victorian times, was designed purely to enhance the visual aspect of the buttocks.