Do guys find thick legs or thin legs attractive?

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Anonymous wrote:No, guys don't like fat women, even if it's the legs that are the fat part, and even if instead of calling them fat, you call them "thick."

Also, normal weight or slightly overweight--i.e. something less than a 30 BMI--isn't "thin."

If you were the athletic type you would have called your legs "toned" or "muscular." So we are talking fat legs here, aren't we?

Nope. Don't like 'em. Sorry.

I call my legs, which I developed through lifting weights, "big" or "huge". I don't know what other people call their legs. Seems personal!

I call my big/huge too, but they are solid muscle. I have little body fat. My husband loves them. I have a genetic propensity to build big thigh/hamstring muscles very, very, very easily which probably was also partly due to over 15 years of soccer.

I can no longer run much--due to hip. I used to run marathons to try to counteract their sprinter-like muscle and try to get longer slow-twitch looking muscle. Now I am stuck on Peloton which has made my thigh muscles nearly bust out of my jeans. They are hard as a rock and my husband says you can tell they are fit as h*ll and look fantastic...but I grew up in an era when the long skinny legs were in.

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What a weird thread to be bumped from over a year ago.

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The answer to "do guys like [x body shape]" is always some do, some don't, no point worrying about it, love your own shape and your confidence will be sexier than the correct thigh size anyway

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Anonymous wrote:What a dumb question. It's like asking, do I like big boobs. Sure, I like some of them. Do they come with a big, fat body? Then...no. I like a nice, round butt and that often comes with thicker thighs. If they are thick because she's fat...no. Hell no and never cankles. I could elaborate a lot more but asking any one person, what "men" like about one female body part is ridiculous. I can't even give you one answer for me. I have no idea what other men like. We are not a hive and I don't speak for them.

Thank you for saying this! I am a woman who grew up thinking that my round (but fit!) butt and my thicker thighs (with which I was a 3 sport letterwoman) were awful and to be despised (after all, we all had to look like Christie Brinkley or Cheryl Tieg). I threw myself into a fit in my 20s to reduce all of the above and only managed to succeed a little. I'm now veryclose to 50 and still have a nice, lifted butt and thick thighs with a tinier middle. I have always hated how I look and am working hard to get over that. I use younger women and their "no body shaming" as examples. But every once in awhile, it's nice to hear of a man who appreciates a body like mine. So, thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer to "do guys like [x body shape]" is always some do, some don't, no point worrying about it, love your own shape and your confidence will be sexier than the correct thigh size anyway

No, actually you could stand to lose some weight.

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The women I see at the gym have thick legs because they have muscular thighs from squatting. Their ankles aren't thick and the rest of their body isn't fat either. This is a good look.

Squatting to pump up your thighs even more is not attractive. Especially if a woman is short.

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Very large breasts…

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The women I see at the gym have thick legs because they have muscular thighs from squatting. Their ankles aren't thick and the rest of their body isn't fat either. This is a good look.

Squatting to pump up your thighs even more is not attractive. Especially if a woman is short.

The women at the gym are attractive. You're just inventing nonsense to justify being too lazy to do any real work at the gym. You're on the treadmill or the elliptical poking at your phone, which isn't actually doing anything for you.

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Anonymous wrote: A number of black men have told me they prefer thick bodies and thick legs.

Same. Black + Hispanic men tend to be more forgiving + may actually prefer roundmer shapes. Different strokes for different folks OP.

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^rounder

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering. A 20 something white guy said he found thick legs sexy. However the girls who have this type of legs usually have thick ankles or cankles and have more fat on the rest of their body. So should I be aiming to be thin or fat?

He likes big butts, thick waists and porky legs. Next!

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Anonymous wrote: A number of black men have told me they prefer thick bodies and thick legs.

Same. Black + Hispanic men tend to be more forgiving + may actually prefer roundmer shapes. Different strokes for different folks OP.

Fat equals rich provider.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer to "do guys like [x body shape]" is always some do, some don't, no point worrying about it, love your own shape and your confidence will be sexier than the correct thigh size anyway

No, actually you could stand to lose some weight.

This just in: man thinks his personal opinion about what is attractive is objective universal truth

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering. A 20 something white guy said he found thick legs sexy. However the girls who have this type of legs usually have thick ankles or cankles and have more fat on the rest of their body. So should I be aiming to be thin or fat?

Are you aiming to be with this particular guy? If so, sounds like he likes thick legs so maybe it will help. For other guys, anyone’s guess.

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This just in: man thinks his personal opinion about what is attractive is objective universal trut

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You are right. The OP should love her body as is while working on things she (and not anyone else) would like to change.

If she wants to lose weight because she wants to lose weight (or because her doctor suggested she do so), rock on sister. However, asking others to tell you what you need to do to become more attractive is a loser move. It is an even bigger loser move if you ask about something you cannot change (e.g., your height).

To the poster who posted this: Are you one of those women who will call out a man for stating an "objective universal truth" yet offer up your own because you are a woman? On DCUM, women are happy to post about what they find attractive in men but very seldom self-aware enough to allow for the fact may want to do the same.

I suggest that any woman (or man) who hears someone tell them something like "your legs are too thick" respond with "STFU."