MISS AVERAGE: WHAT SEX DOLLS CAN TELL US ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF BEAUTY

a thread

(miss average pictured below)

What is the "ideal" feminine form? This is a question I've discussed in detail in the past, but today I'm contributing a new angle to the discussion: sex dolls.

They're just like sexbots, except they'll never let you down by... moving.

After my early articles on feminine beauty, several people sent me popular research articles claiming the optimal waist-hip ratio (waist measurement divided by hip measurement) is 0.70. These have had a lot of publicity in the media. https://twitter.com/antemachina/status/1272611322916737024

When I've read these studies in the past I've always noticed that .7 was the lowest ratio they tested, so I replied that, while I wasn't certain what the optimal ratios were, they were likely to be BELOW 0.70.

The waist-bust ratio, or the waist measurement divided by the bust measurement (abbreviated WBR) is a similar number to the waist hip ratio; and when both are equally low, the result is an "hourglass" figure.

(One study that tested WBRs found them to be MORE CLOSELY tied to attractiveness than WHRs. But WHRs are studied more because...? Well I don't know why.

Naturally the idea that a ratio lower than 0.7 is preferred is difficult to test, because ratios below 0.7 are quite rare.

Indeed, one of my interlocutors was in disbelief when I suggested a waist-bust ratio of ~0.6 was likely to be preferred over ~0.7.

Example waist-bust ratios:

American women in the 1940s: 0.77
20-something Japanese women today: 0.77
Janet Lupo (November 1975 centerfold): 0.62
Anime girl (purported): 0.60
Jessica Rabbit (purported): 0.58

Today I did a little experiment, not especially scientific, but fairly obvious. I went to four top sex doll sales websites in four different anglophone countries and checked the proportions of the bestselling models.

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And the average proportions of the bestselling sex dolls are...

0.61 bust to waist ratio
0.61 waist to hip ratio

Below is an example that measures close to this average (0.62)

Of course you could get a more accurate number if you spent more time and did a more sophisticated calculation of popularity.

The number is roughly similar to Jessica Rabbit, Kim K (for the lower ratio), Janet Lupo (for the upper ratio) and purported anime sizes.

I only included full size models, so the criticism that these numbers would be distorted by the small size of the dolls is not valid in this case.

In sum, when men choose a full size model with entirely sexual purposes in mind, they prefer an "unrealistic" model equivalent to the most extreme human centerfolds. If you do an image search for the Janet Lupo, the November 1975 centerfold, you will see a human equivalent WBR.

At the same time, they don't choose something bizarrely outside reality or even biologically impossible, but "just outside" the limit of what you're actually likely to encounter.

I am not in the market for one of these dolls but I consider this to be valid evidence nonetheless.

In some ways it's BETTER information than in the scientific studies, because the men buying these don't feel psychologically constrained by the pressure of being observed (however indirectly) by a researcher.

By the way, the range of variation in this sample was .52-.67. None of the ratios fell above 0.7.

So there you have it. While there's undoubtedly variation in individual taste (and more variation than these popular models show) the average preferred ratio is slightly above 0.6 for both bust and hips.

Now, to some of you that may seem a rather extreme ratio. After all, it's well below any popular supermodel's proportions. And remember, this is the AVERAGE. Not the ratio in the also popular "voluptuous" category.

Let's take a look at those more extreme ratios.

The most extreme waist bust ratio I've found is...

0.34

I won't post a picture, but it's VERY extreme.

I wasn't easily able to find a WHR below 0.5. Perhaps it permits less variation, or perhaps the ethnicity that prefers very low WHRs doesn't buy these dolls.

The most common bust waist ratio in the "voluptuous" category is far more moderate than 0.34: it's around ~.50.

Here's what that looks like.

These are the tamest examples I could find. I hope I didn't burn your eyes!

I can't help but close with some fashion comparisons.

On the left is the latest model on a clothing site where my gf was shopping last week.

On the right is the "average" sex doll.

No one's really surprised at the disparity, but it's still rather... striking.

On the left are Vogue's "top models of Fall 2019"

On the right are the popular sex dolls in the "voluptuous" category.

Fashion: running as fast as possible in the wrong direction since 1920.

If the "prestige" or "aspirational" look and the most attractive look were aligned...

does anyone think the world would be worse off?

I would go so far as to say that the main goal for social critique is to align status points with genuine good.

In the realm of aesthetics, that means aligning "prestige" beauty with genuine beauty.

And... are any of my own readers honestly surprised by these dolls?

The purpose of all these ratios and calculations is really just to state the obvious in a way that's hard to refute, and end the game of scoring status points by lying to signal class and "good taste," or to better sell clothes--which actually CAN confuse gullible people.