The essence of attraction
Gloria, 19, is into fat men. Nothing under 20 stone will do. Gloria can slip into an eight with the ease of an eel slipping through jelly. Her boyfriend, Gary, is six feet, weighs in at 22 stone and his stomach arrives five minutes before he does. Admittedly, he has nice eyes, is a lovely man and treats Gloria like the little princess she is, but really, what does she see in all that fat?
‘I just love, big, big men. I find them really sexy,’ she says. ‘Gary makes me feel safe and protected when he’s around. I love gentle giants.’Maybe fat men like Gary offer a girl more fun – after all, there’s a lot more to explore and you never know what or who you might find under one of those folds of fat. And a girl like Gloria always likes to be on top – which is just as well, because she’d be flattened into the mattress if not. Or am I just not using my imagination enough?
So, while Gloria spends hours in the gym developing muscle definition and keeping cellulite at bay, Gary works out on the sofa, watching telly and drinking beer. Like most women, Gloria spends a fortune to become the woman we think men want us to be, while men save their money and expect us to accept them as they are.
Gloria does not see the injustice in this. Like the housewives of the ’50s, she feels it is her duty to stay desirable for her man. She also assures me that there are millions of women whose tastes in men go far beyond the George Clooneys of this world. For them, an overhanging belly does what a six-pack does for the rest of us. After all, men don’t have to be slim, young and beautiful to be adored by the opposite sex. We are far more forgiving when it comes to body image.
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