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Man’s image of ideal female body is shockingly skinny even by Japanese standards

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By Casey Baseel

Happiness in the real world is largely the result of prioritizing what’s really important for you, going after those things, and not being too picky about everything else. Of course, when you’re talking about fantasizing, you can have it all, as we’ve seen previously when men are asked for the characteristics of their ideal woman.

So when a men’s magazine in Japan recently published the results of a similar survey, we weren’t surprised that the compiled average of the physical parameters were pretty strict. What was shocking, though, was the response given by one man, whose image of the perfect female figure isn’t just largely unattainable, it’s downright unhealthy.

Twitter user Junnai shared one page of the questionnaire’s results. The bottom half is labeled “Part 2: Body,” so we’re guessing that another section of the magazine contains the respondents’ preferred personality traits.

This page, though, is all about the physical, and with a section unabashedly declaring that the best breasts have both elasticity and a well-defined shape, there’s obviously not a lot of self-censoring going on. There’s a tale of the tape for the perfect body, and the non-round numbers seem like a pretty clear indicator that the figures are averages, with a height of 157 centimeters, a weight of 44 kilograms, a D-cup bust, and waist and hip measurements of 59 and 81 centimeters, respectively.

Even if we make the bold assumption that these men wouldn’t mind even larger breasts than D cups, the chest size requirement alone eliminates roughly three out of five adult women in Japan. Still, with some 40% of the country’s female population left to draw from, we’re sure there are some women who could check off all of those boxes.

Somewhat harder to find, though, would be someone fitting the description one man gave of his ideal woman.

152 centimeters isn’t that tiny by Japanese standards, but 37 kilograms? There are indeed certain things that’s a fine weight for. For example, if you’re an eighth-grade boy who’s just started lifting weights, a 37-kg bench press is a modest, yet decent, starting goal.

For a person, though, 37 kilograms probably means either your caloric intake or number of limbs is lower than it ordinarily should be. That or you’re some kind of bird-like creature built for flight and have hollow bones.

Japanese Internet commentators largely agreed.

“That’s crazy.” “152 centimeters and 37 kilos? You’d starve to death.” “She’d look like a skeletal structure diagram.” “Way too skinny!”

Not everyone who participated in the survey was so fixated on numbers, either. Directly to the right of the 32 kilogram comment sown above is another quote from someone else saying, “As long as she has a slim waist I don’t really care about how many centimeters it is.”

We should also point out that the magazine either didn’t know or chose not to reveal the age of the respondents. It’s possible the guy looking for a 37-kilogram girl is still in junior high, and thus isn’t thinking in terms of full-grown women, we suppose. Of course, it’s also possible that he just doesn’t have enough experience with real women to know how far out of touch with reality his fantasy is.

Source: Jin

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Me, I find Japanese women just about perfect just the way they are. Of course, I prefer small breasts and don't care for larger ones. I guess I'm a minority among male opinions. but Japanese women have so many delightful qualities to offer apart from just physical appearance. They have the greatest sense of joy and fun of any women I've met or dated.

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Reading the title, I expected "Man's image of..." to mean the image of men in general based on a representative survey, but they really meant the image of one man!

Anyway, I generally like Japanese women; though I would rather they get rid of padded bras.

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I was tempted to say at first that the headline is very misleading. The survey reveals that men largely like average women, with slightly above average busy size (even then, it's not that much higher). Then I noticed that the headline isn't actually wrong... They didn't say. "Men's image... ", but "MAN's image... ". Note the use of the singular, not the plural.

So okay, the headline is actually accurate, but the story is irrelevant. Focusing on one reply on a survey? Come on now. The guy could have made a mistake on his firm, or could have been joking, or simply doesn't know exactly how thin that was.

What would have been really interesting was to ask the same questions to women about what they think the ideal female body should look like. Are women harsher than men on themselves? That would have been an interesting comparison.

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I want an hourglass figure not a stick figure

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Japanese women have sensational bodies, right into their later years. I love their slender bodies, which, for the most part aren't too skinny for my liking - they are just people who eat well, and are conscious of maintaining that and their appearance, and it works for me.

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37 kgs? Really? The reality is, even most senior elementary schoolgirls in Japan are bigger than the "ideal woman" of these netizens! It makes you question just what type of fantasy female they are chasing. Fortunately there are plenty of toned, healthy and curvy women around for those of us who aren't into the bony look.

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To me Japanese woman's body has never developed into womanhood..sometimes I see a woman from behind and I can't tell whether she's a mom or a child going to school,.and obviously when I turn around to look she can definitely pass as a child. Or vice versa..dress her old, give her a bag and viola, she can pass for a mom as well. I can agree in being careful with what they eat and all..but sometimes they go to extreme measures that make them the most vain people I've ever met. I go to yoga and a lot of my yoga mates are extremely thin and yet think that they're over weight,,it just shocks me to hear how they say that they are. Sometimes I wonder if they're truly happy with that kind of thinking about how to lose weight everyday could be rather stressful. My husbands opinion is that they don't eat so much at home, so when they go out that's the only time they indulge in all kinds of food. So relatively at home they only have natto, himono and miso soup that's the basic..plus they rush to leave, they hardly have chill axing time at home. For them home is a place to eat , bathe and sleep. That's all.I'm talking in general, don't mean all. This is my opinion

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Girls with zero arse just don't do it for me! The big breasts I can live without, only because it's not acceptable to walk down the street with a girl holding her breast.

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My Japanese wife is a knock out. Love you hunny!

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Big breasts go hand-in-hand with a big body. Just as there's no way to "spot reduce" fat from on your body (say, only from the hips), there's also no way to "spot add" fat to the breast tissue short of surgical procedures. If you want a girl with large breasts, you're generally going to have to deal with the rest being larger as well.

Back in the day when I was actually trying bodybuilding, women competitors were not allowed implants. A woman striving for well-defined muscle definition during competition would need to get down to less than five percent body fat, and the breasts were the biggest "casualty" of this regimen. Competitors in bikinis would have less breast tissue than your typical middle-schooler. Right around the time I gave up on my quest to be the next Arnold Schwartzenegger, the competition rules for some contests were being changed to allow breast implants for competing women.

The point is, expecting a wisp of a woman to be sporting anything more than a B or C-cup is really unrealistic. But I guess seeing as this article was asking about the "perfect female figure", there really wasn't anything that required the responses to be realistic.

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