About a couple weeks ago, you might have heard about a study out of the University of Hawaii that found overweight and obese women (BMI>25) had ‘more sex’ than normal-weighted ones. The study was all over the news because it challenged what we would generally believe – after all, ‘skinny’ women are hotter, so they should have more sex.
The study surveyed over 7,000 women aged 15-44 about their sexual habits, and a higher percentage of the larger women reported having had sex. The researchers admitted they were surprised. “These results were unexpected and we don’t really know why this is the case,” said lead researcher Dr Bliss Kaneshiro. The big question remained – why?
Well, perhaps they should have talked to researchers over at University of Alabama about their new study. While looking to see if the weight of obese women might be tied to their overall ability to control impulses, they found an interesting result. Overweight women are simply more impulsive – even in methods completely unrelated to food.
In a study of 95 men and women, the researchers looked at “delay discounting” – a measure of the degree to which an individual is driven by immediate gratification vs. the prospect of larger, but delayed, rewards. The participants were given the choice of receiving varying hypothetical amounts of money immediately or fixed hypothetical amounts of money to be received after delays of two weeks to ten years. The obese women undervalued the delayed rewards at a rate three-to-four times greater than that of normal weight women – meaning they’re a lot more impulsive.
If you bring together the two parts, it seems obvious why overweight and obese women would have more sex. Because of a lack of impulse control, the hefty ladies are more likely to say ‘yes’ to a man’s advances.
That’s not to say that all fat women are sluts – don’t get me wrong. While the University of Hawaii study found that overweight women are more likely to have had sex, they also found that the sexual behavior between the two groups was essentially the same. That is, BMI was not significantly associated with sexual orientation, age at first intercourse, frequency of heterosexual intercourse, and the number of lifetime or current male partners. So one group was no more slutty or prudish than the other. The only difference is that more overweight women had had sex at all – a small variance in the big scheme of sexual behavior.
Small enough that, perhaps, their increased impulsivity could be at fault. Which just might give those University of Hawaii researchers their answer. Of course, they have yet to show if this difference is genetic versus learned – which might open up a whole other can of worms.
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Me and my ex stripper wife (she is now a college professor) have had a few heavier (I wouldn’t say fat) girls and they are alot of fun but mostly the wife only goes for 110 to 130 pound 5foot8 strippers (she doesn’t even really like club girls, ie: college girls out skankin’ on the weekend) betweent the ages of 21 (we have standards) and 35. She likes that new soft skin more than anything and you only get that with youth, or an older woman who is obsessed with remaining young.
In fact, the only thick girls we have been with were all black girls (hips and azzzzz baby). She does seem to have a thing for a mixed black girl, especially a black/asian girl. Oh my wife, I love her so, the shallow lil’ btch.
had sex with various shapes and sizes….
See the woman in the picture here, grabbing on her rear bumper with her legs spread out while driving in and out in the missionary position will take you places you only visit in your imagination.
slim women not bad but it feels like you really have to be careful and handle them gently. Many times it feels like you might break or rip something if you go too rough.
with Big woman, there’s plenty of shock absorbers to take the shock of however rough you want to be
Apart from the morbidly obese I find larger women to be more attractive and open about sex. Whereas scarecrows tend to be more childish, demanding and quite frankly make me feel like a pedophile by being near them.
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Note that you wrote:
“The study was all over the news because it challenged what we would generally believe – after all, ‘skinny’ women are hotter, so they should have more sex.”
Why is skinny in quotes? If you’re going to put a word in quotes there, it should be hotter. That’s your view, wilcoxclynn. Skinny is “hotter” only in the prejudices that predominate in our society. I doubt most people feel that way.
In our society it takes nothing to qualify as fat. The beauty ideal is emaciated, but that’s not what men want. Many of us like big women. That applies both to those who really are fat, and those who are merely categorized as such (i.e., the vast majority, such as the median-sized women presented as “plus-size” in Glamour’s bogus size liberation issue).
Were the subjects in this study Hawaiian? That would make sense as I’ve heard that Hawaiian men are more attracted to heavier women.
Don’t say you’re fat! You are ‘heavenly curved’ as a woman should be
You are on top of the world in Japan with all those skinny bones over there! Enjoy!
I am fat and I love my life, love the world .. make good money.. and get laid whenever I want but choose mostly to be monogamous. And I have found living in Asia around a ton of hot skinny women ..that everyone still prefers big tits and thick hips !
Argue against the logic in the article if you like, but saying you find something “offensive” is quite irrelevant.
This is an amazing uncovering. Well I also believed that skinny women are more pronged to have sex. I would, however recommend all women to go for toronto lap band which is a great program for becoming thinner and smart.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that’s funny…almost every fat woman that I have ever met are always miserable…want to die…hate the world…and hate themselves…”
Dude, seriously? That did not strike me as funny the least bit. All of the fat women I know are actually overly happy. so go fuck yourself, you pathetic and ignorant piece of shit. I bet you don’t even weigh over 100 pounds, motherfucker.
Well I am extremely happy, my only worries about being overweight is the effect it will have on my organs in another 30 years. I am beautiful, I have many admirers. However I am not built like your average fat girl. No huge hips, huge boobs, huge butt. I actually find a large amount of men like those type of fat girls. Infact I have met a few men who said I could use some extra pounds lol.
But there is one thing I have found to be 100% true over my years of fatness. Guys who make fun of fat girls, especially the ones who feel it necessary to point and laugh and make pig noises and stupid stuff like that….. are only proving just how small their penis really is. It is because they feel insecure. I have 4 friends that used to be my enemies until I called them out on it. Just because us big girls are good at what we do sexually doesn’t mean we want to do it with you.
i know lots of fat women and the majority r so confident
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that’s funny…almost every fat woman that I have ever met are always miserable…want to die…hate the world…and hate themselves…
I think your explanation is at least plausible, but you certainly haven’t exhausted all possible explanations. Doesn’t male/ homosexual female perception of female attractiveness matter to this study? Had you possibly considered that, despite the propaganda shoved down our throats by the woman-hating media and fashion industry, people just regard larger women as more attractive? Or perhaps there’s something else about larger women, other than their body type, that makes them more attractive to men/homosexual women? All I’m saying is that your conclusion is not exactly obvious, ignores a lot of possible alternatives, and to be frank, strikes me as somewhat offensive.
They take what they want and they want what feels good. Food & Sex! It’s a mystery with this study that any man would prefer a skinny toothpick over a thick chick. Hell ask a guy what he wants. Food & Sex! Don’t forget this is a very old saying. Fat people are happy people. Why do ya think Buddha is always smiling. Also not to long ago huge huge women were in style. Time is relative so my yesterday could be your last year. Don’t forget about the little ladies tho. Real men love all women.
~Rbertrzc
I belive all these facts are true…I am a chubby person and my husband just can’t keep up with me…
As a fat Businesswoman when i go on business excursions, i find myself looking out for women of similar proportion. The reason is i found slender businesswomen tend to look down on us because we are overweight. I play a vital role in my organisation and my weight is not an issue. There are plenty of intelligent fat businesswomen out there who are successful and single
I think the real reason is obvious. A LOT OF MEN OUT THERE ARE “CHUBBY CHASERS”. I think the study should’ve also compared the number of “healthy sexual experiences” vs “negative sexual experiences”. For instances, how many of these sexual experiences happened during a relationship and how many were in a nightclub somewhere or met by some guy who just wanted to have a good time? just a thought…
Well, no. Fat women ARE sluttier according to the study. The study merely shows that there is no difference in sexual behavior between the two groups of women who HAVE had sex. That does not mean that the percentage of each group who has had sex is equal. In other words, 99% of the heifers may have had sex while only 1% of the scarecrows had sex, but they had it at the same age and with the same number of partners. To me, that makes the fat girls sluttier on average. Are you with me camera guy?
However, as someone who lives in Hawaii and went to this university, I doubt that you could extrapolate this study to other populations. There is a lot going on in the psychological makeup of many of the local girls that seems to be tied to feelings of inferiority and a tendency to choose men who don’t necessarily make the best long term partners. The fat girls are the worst in this regard.
Since the study was looking at whether the women had sex at all, a thought occurs to me. Many women (myself included) became fat as a coping mechanism for dealing with childhood sexual abuse and/or incest. That makes for an awful lot of obese women who have had sex, doesn’t it?
Perhaps fat woman have more sex because psychologically they feel inadequate. Consenting to sex easily helps them convince themselves that they ARE desirable and are not inadequate?
or it could be that fat women want to feel wanted and men will bed anything that moves.
I suppose some women would feel inadequate or insecure and therefore that would be why they would sleep with a lot of guys… but not every ‘fat’ woman is insecure with her body… a lot of them could simply like/want sex.
It could also be due to certain physical diseases/problems/disorders. I have Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome which ups my testosterone level, and I also have Hypothyroidism, which combined with the PCOS has made me overweight all my life and virtually unable to lose it. I also have ADD which definitely causes me to be impulsive.
It would be interesting to see how many of the ‘fat’ women have PCOS or ADD or anything else that might contribute to the factors stated in the study.
you could also argue that it’s the insecurity of the skinny woman which holds her back from having sex rather than insecurity of the chubby chick.
a skinny girl sees herself as an object of attention, especially in a social setting where she may know a group of people. she’d be more concerned about ‘looking like a slut’.
my guess is, if she was on vacation & no one found out, she’d be a LOT less trepidatious about who she gets with. hence the whole ‘what happens in vegas’ phenomenon. or ‘vacation pussy’ as it’s more commonly known.
fat chicks may not feel this pressure as they’re not as scrutinized in this manner.
so it could actually be a sign of a healthy thing more than an unhealthy thing.
i’m just saying.
people always oversimplify things without looking at other deeper possibilities.
there is also the possibility that since a skinny woman may get more advances, she just shuts off to most people.
both theories point to the fact that chubby chicks are just less guarded.
chicks who have their guards up all the time are a pain in the ass anyways. :-p
That gotta be relative because what is obese to some is pleasantly cuddly to another, my wife is largish but that is just around her middle after having 4 kids, she also has a rather robust bust shall we say, and I love her to bits.
All through my adolescent and later young adult life I have always found that many women whom are a little overweight or plump say are generally happier and more comfortable with themselves than those with hourglass figures, it seems that they are certainly not likely to be worrying about it.
“sluts”? “fault”? And all these comments about fat or thin women needing to have sex to compensate for insecurity?
Heaven forbid that these women are actually:
a) in happier, healthier relationships than their peers, or
b) have worked on a happier, healthier attitude to their bodies, or
c) have snagged partners who enjoy sex more
But whatever it is that’s at fault for causing this slutty behaviour, at least we can rest assured that misogyny and cultural moral judgmentalism hasn’t tainted the research or its reporting.
Did no one read the whole paragraph on “their sexual behavior is essentially the same except larger women have had sex at all more”?
To be sluttier you’d have to have a higher number of parters or more sex on average – neither of which was found by the study.
Just noting
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“To be sluttier you’d have to have a higher number of parters or more sex on average”
I just don’t know where to begin with this one.
Is not the author(s) of the study(s).
Her use of the term “sluts” is consistent with terminology/style she has displayed in previous posts – simple and plain, but fun and playful.
If you want a scholarly treatment of the subject matter, don’t read a blog. Through her own interpretation she points out potential flaws in the study and give her opinions. If you overlook that then you miss the point of her post and instead allow your own bias and baggage to trump anything you could have gotten out of it.
Of course, you could be looking for an argument – but that would be with Mr. Barnard, room 12.
Eric
A thought occurs to me: why are there so many ads on TV that tell women to become mere wisps if they want to be sexy. May we extrapolate from the study a conclusion–the larger you are, the more sexually available you are–that a subliminal promise from the advertisements might be: if you are slim, you don’t have to be as sexually available as you are when you are large?
My experience with women leads me to believe that any one of them, if interested in a guy, will use whatever she finds useful in her womanly arsenal to get and keep the target’s attention. I don’t believe that the self-reported sexual behavior of any woman is a particularly useful datum other than as just what it is: an observation of self-reported behavior. There are too many unanswered questions beyond self reports to come to a conclusion that a woman’s size is an indicator of her sexual availability.