BBW’s, Improve Your Large Body Image
American women, unfortunately, have a huge problem with body image. On average Americans are 60% overweight, but recent findings say that 75% women believe they are fat. American women have a predisposition to believing they are fat, and very few see themselves as attractive or slim. Although, there is some basis for those perceptions. According to the last census in 2000, the American female population numbered one hundred forty million. Statistically, that means over eighty-four million women are overweight and close to forty million adult females are medically obese. So, if women who are slender have poor body image, what chance do big beautiful women have of feeling good about their body?
Recent research has found a direct correlation between a female’s self-perception and her sexuality. The better she felt about her body image (attractiveness) and higher her sexual drive (and activity). The worse that she sees herself; the less her libido presents itself. As American women (including large women) are pre-conditioned with “thin is in” or “thin is beauty” meted out by the mass media, that means that statistically forty million females (at least), and quite possibly eighty-four million ladies are having a very miserable, substandard love life. This poor love life is only due to poor body image. Even women’s magazines have discovered in their random polls that forty percent of women had a diminished sex drive if they simply felt they were overweight.
There are those who say there is self-hatred that is demoralizing caused by society’s perception of being fat means that one is lazy, ugly, and out of control. Some say that women who obsess about weight are easily intimidated in bed. That when their weight increases just a few pounds they cannot enjoy sex because they fell afraid to show their body, are embarrassed to create any sounds, and are generally unable to relax when touched. Unfortunately, this poor body image, poor sex life connection only strengthens the more women obsess about their weight. Women cannot believe that men want to be with them, to touch them, to make love to them.
Then there is a billion dollar industry that feeds off this idea that women must be slim to be sexually attractive- the diet industry. Sadly, dieting will not improve the perception of a woman’s body image enough that she will be comfortable enough with herself to enjoy sex. A recent study has shown that nearly half of women surveyed, overweight women who have dieted to their goal weight, say their success didn’t satisfy them. That they still felt terrible even after the weight loss. They didn’t feel sexy before or after the weight loss not because of the fat, but because of their perception of themselves. That did not change.
If women, large or small sized, will ever be able to enjoy true passion, romance, and intimacy in their relationships, they must improve their body image as it is today. Accept your body today, and you will enjoy awesome lovemaking tonight. Truly enjoying the joys of life is the path to improving the way you perceive your body.
Once you discover new techniques to delight your lover and take action to leave behind negative perceptions about your body, you will alter your perception of sexuality in a positive way. Changing your love life is a terrific way to altogether overhaul a poor body image.
