Here’s what I’ve found that also quotes Lassek but reaches quite a different conclusion:
"William Lassek and Steven Gaulin, anthropologists from UC Santa Barbara, have reviewed the research on body shape, attractiveness, and fertility. As well as waist-to-hip ratio, they looked at the impact of body mass index (or BMI).
Men tend to prefer women with very low waist-to-hip ratios (whose waists are much narrower than their hips), but these women are actually less likely to conceive than women with a less pronounced hourglass figure (emphasis mine). Younger women are more likely to have an hourglass figure, and age is related to fertility, but the most attractive waist-to-hip ratios are generally found in women in their late teens, whereas women’s fertility tends to peak in their mid to late twenties."
And, these are also cultural and not timeless preferences. In ancient Egypt and 1920s America, women with small breasts and boyish figures were considered the most attractive so it hardly seems likely to be evolutionary for that reason as well.
https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/
The women that we see on TV and in movies have to literally starve themselves in order to achieve the "attractive" WTH ratio of teenage girls. Please stop promoting this as desirable and achievable for anyone older than 21. It's toxic and leads to eating disorders.
