Ladies' posteriors can be quite interesting to observe. The great Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as evidenced above, made a careful study of them throughout his long artistic career.
But, unlike Renoir, we now live in an age of scientific wonders that permits us to ponder rear ends with greater precision. When men thoughtfully observe a shapely posterior, where are they looking?
This is of casual interest to us laypeople, but of professional interest to plastic surgeons when they are tasked with sculpting perfection from the clay of the human body. A journal article in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery found that men most often look at the gluteal cleft and then the thigh gap. The women who participated in the study also focused on those two areas.
But, the eye tracking technology revealed, the male participants tended to hold their gaze for longer periods of time than the female participants did.
-via Dave Barry | Image: Reclining Nude by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, photo by Pharos
Previously on Neatorama: Study Finds the Ideal Shape for Male Buttocks