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I will be totally serious for just a moment.

Hobying, and a traumatic midlife crisis, has made me apreciate much more than I did as a young man, and much more than i ever imagined i could or would, the incredibly wide range of female beauty spread throughout the world.  Giselle Bunchen, just to pick a name at random, is NOT the ultimate or only word in feminine beauty.  It's all over the place, in every racial/ethnic group, in every cultural group, in all geographical locales, in all educational and economic backgrounds.  You only have to allow yourself to see it.  And then you will very quickly learn to appreciate it.  And kick yourself for not tumbling to it sooner.

Likewise, I've come to learn, both from the hobby and civie life,  that there are many ways to please aand satisfy a woman, physically and otherwise.  And every part of a woman's body can be beautiful, even the least obvious parts, and these are some of my faves -- a smile, dimples, facial bone structure, feet, ankles, toes, shoulders, necks, the simple feel of her skin.  Sometimes I can feel like a glutton at an all-you- can-eat buffet.  I don't know where to start, and I don't ever want to finish.

OK, serious time over.  Back to being, if not humorous, certainly sophomoric.

TY very much for allowing me to psychobabble over your question.

I don't know what the original question was, but thank you for your enlightened point of view.  It was beautifully stated spychobabble.  So allow me to join you....LOL.

Society has created this ideal image of beauty to which women are being held to be considered beautiful.  They're supposed to look like Barbie...big boobs, long body, narrow waist, flat belly, long legs, with a J-Lo butt and somewhere between 18 (and I say that only 'cuz that's the age where she becomes a legal adult) and 23.  In the modeling world even 26 is considered too old.  It is an image which very few of us can attain.  Is it any wonder that more and more women turn to plastic surgery to fix their "imperfections"?

As I've gotten a little older, I too, have come to appreciate the beauty of diversity.  I look around me and I see so many beautiful women (and men)...and they don't necessarily conform to that ideal image of beauty.  One only has to open their eyes to see it.

For awhile, Dove was running commercials for moisturizer using 'full-figured' women in bra and panties.  Remember the frenzy that caused?  Women loved it, while men seemed to hate it.  I remember one man remarking, "If I wanted to see that, I'd look at my wife!"  If you took a moment to look past the larger frame (and none of these women had fat rolls or belly's that hung to their knees...they were just larger women), you would have noticed beautiful skin, and very lovely features on their faces.  Each and every one of these women were quite attractive....beautiful in my eyes.  I really wish they hadn't quit running the commercials.

Thank you again for your serious moment...

You may now return to your originally scheduled programming..  

The questions are two posts above this one.

I noticed you mentioned prejudices about shape and weight, which are prevalent among men and women.  However, as a man who is shorter than 5'6" with an average build, I face a lot more discrimination than if I were average height and overweight.

I have found that many [most?] women consider a man unattractive if he is shorter than her or even the same height.  I always wonder what providers think of me.  Have my respectful demeanor and sexual performance changed or reinforced their prejudices?  I don't feel I can ask a provider directly since they she is not going to say anything that jeopardizes her business.

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