Standards of Beauty – Part (…)
I came across this footnote in Burton’s translation of the Arabian Nights:
This prominence of the glutaei muscles is always insisted upon, because it is supposed to promise well in a bed-fellow. In Somali-land, where the people are sub-steatopygous, a rich young man, who can afford such luxury, will have the girls drawn up in a line and choose her to wife who projects furthest behind. Posted by Thrasymachus at 04:02 PM
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