I know a liittle about this stuff. One theory is that busts follow the market--in prosperous times small is fashionable and in depressed the big bust is favored. I don't know, fashion is different from any real collective preference, except that it influences some people. There are fairly talented people who work hard to make celebrities look good, then that look becomes a recognisible sort of style thing and people recognise it, respond to it. The general big bust preference is like that--not so many people really prefer it, I think, but it does have a way of bringing the subject up.

Straight males generally have always liked jiggly women, as part of the the whole liking-women deal, and still do, and no amount of stylish fashion really changes that. But we have managed to create social diseases by attacking people's insecurities with diabolical ads. Same with ads about cars or whatever, how successful you are, or appear to be. I drew nude models a lot in college, and am really very easily attracted by people's looks, in all sorts of ways. I think it would be a good thing if drawing were still considered a basic part of education instead of a flaky gift. It's just a kind of literacy, just work like anything else. Then people might be better able to culture their eyes, instead of being so susceptible to influences. My own preference has always been mostly in the timeless range of mature-looking normality--by which I mean more or less average body types, with lots of room for variation. The only place to find average, mature- looking photos of nudes, when I was a kid, was books about witchcraft. Odd, now that I think of it.

I've been with one woman about 22 years, since I was seventeen. One attractive woman I know is as weirdly voluptuous as a hindu stone carving, looks exotically sexy, very unusual, probably not a fashionable sort of look, is my point, but still as sexy as sexy gets. I don't think I judge people by their looks, much, but I enjoy the way people look, and like to flirt and have fun.

One thing I find unattractive in women is when they get all high-minded, ethical, and principled, when it suits them, but forget that principle the rest of the time. It seems so masculine, like a woman having a big beard.

Given that the look goes with other things, one thing I find especially sexy in general, is the ability to act. Bad acting is horribly unsexy, no matter what someone looks like. But in women in particular, the ability to do that look in the eye, that face--like Nala in the cartoon The Lion King. To do that, on cue, convincingly--that's amazing. I was watching with my kids, and Simba and Nala roll down a hill, then she looks at him with that face that women get at a certain point in the development of intimacy that says Fuck me. Yikes. Is that where women learn it? From Disney? How did they do that? It's kind of a mona lisa smile, and the eyes narrow just perceptibly. If a real actress did that in a movie it would be my pick for an oscar, but this was a cartoon of a damn lioness. People talked about the word Sex being drawn in the clouds, subliminally--what about that liminal thing where Nala does the Ok-fuck-me face?

Another theory is that smell is a very good indicator of biological mate-compatibility. I heard that somewhere.