How thin do men want women to be?

Societal Myth--all men want all women to be extremely thin in order to be considered attractive. Yes, even though women's and men's magazines would lead you to believe this, the research data, and my own experience professionally and personally bears the research out to be true. A famous study looked at what shape and weight women are, what there own ideal weight and shape was, what they thought men wanted, and what men said was their ideal for a woman's shape and weight. As expected, women wanted a much lower weight that what they actually were. They THOUGHT that men wanted a shape and weight close to the women's own self-ideal. What men ACTUALLY said was attractive was a weight and shape that is the same as the average women actually is. So, in reality, men are not the source of the thinness pressure on women. Women put more pressure on themselves than men put on them. This is not to blame women for their thinness obsession. There are clear societal pressures on them to embrace the thinness ideal. More on that later . . .