Overweight (92.5%) and obese (91.5%) women are significantly more likely ever to have had sexual intercourse with men than normal-weight women (87.4%). The age

Overweight (92.5%) and obese (91.5%) women are significantly more likely ever to have had sexual intercourse with men than normal-weight women (87.4%). The age range was 15-44, which is wide, and nothing indicates that these findings were controlled for age, the obvious culprit. The numbers seem about right for my assumed age groups for each category. The fact is that sex is actually very easy to get (for either gender). Quality sex is somewhat harder to find. This is what makes this sort of study meaningless. Sexually undesirable people (not to say that obese women are necessarily undesirable, but that seems to be the null hypothesis) tend to have sex fairly often, just with lower standards. When a man propositions a woman, she can respond in one of two ways; she can say “yes” or she can say “no.” When a woman propositions a man, he can also respond in one of two ways; he can say “yes” or he can say “yes, please.” This is not true. I'm 25, male, and have never had sex outside of a long-term relationship. I've definitely said "no". "Choosiness" is one of those gender-loaded traits where the differences within genders are larger than those between them. Duh. Men may not be saying “yes, please” to overweight and obese women, but Kaneshiro et al.’s study clearly suggests that they are definitely saying “yes.” This made me laugh, and might have justified the time I spent reading this otherwise horrible article.