The context of that research was in figuring out some probability that obesity is, in fact, contagious as shown in this statement "A person's chance of becoming obese significantly increased if he or she had an obese friend, sibling, or spouse"
I started out contemplating the possibility of an "inward" connection to the obesiverse, but I was quickly enlightened to the way in which obesity seems to have tentacles spreading outward instead.
All of this leads me totally off-topic (as usual) into some sci-fi type of fantasy I've had for the longest time! When I first saw and skimmed over the details surrounding the Venus of Willendorf and subsequent other Venus figurines scattered through "space and time", I wasn't very intrigued. Instead, I was amused by such obvious evidence that the shape, feel, and mere sight of a big woman's body contains strong visual breeding cues that have been imprinted onto our instinct but resisted and rejected over the millennium.
As an admirer of the physical aspects of a larger woman's body, I can only translate this residual tugging of instinct by saying that a larger woman's body appears "super feminine", and therefore elicits a strong sexual response that a smaller woman's body is not capable of producing because it more resembles an immature masculine physicality. In other words, skinny women's bodies resemble immature males more than sexually mature females. As a female's body becomes larger, other parts of the body become more rounded and softer to the touch. This causes otherwise non erogenous parts of the body to take on the same textile and visual appeal of other erogenous parts.
When viewed "as a whole", the larger body makes perfect sense even though we are made to believe that this is a distortion of what a female body should look like. This creates tragedy in the way that women are sold products or procedures with the promise to "eliminate problem areas". It is no coincidence that those problem areas are also places where fat accumulates to contribute to the rounded shape that a woman's body actually should have. Women are made to feel so self-conscious about being living examples of physically enhanced femininity that they are brainwashed into eliminating those very things that make them appear more feminine.
Take the way that network television chooses to air shows that feature larger men and women because it's a "hot topic" right now, but they are always very careful to avoid showing certain parts of a larger woman's body. Watching such shows for hours on end will rarely, if ever, produce a female "navel slip" or "belly slip". Therefore, it is my conclusion that the sight of a large round belly is just as controversial and "disturbing" as the sight of a large breast out in the open, particularly in the case of large females.
I start to imagine the possibility of those venus figurines being more of a warning rather than a relic. The sci-fi part of my fantastical imagination produces a theory that is not about "time travel", but instead about some leap in quantum technology that allows a momentary two way link with another time period through mastery and manipulation of the multiverse theory. Many stories have been whipped up about time travel and the past being influenced by the future, but I imagine a more subtle advance in technology where it is eventually possible to have brief glimpses and even contact with those living in another time instead of simply being able to directly observe past events.
Such a complex theory is easy to use in fiction because one doesn't have to describe the technology in order to speculate about that technology's consequences. It would be important for me to point out in such a fictional work, one would not have to actually exist, travel, or walk into the past to achieve this two-way communication. Instead, the fictionally created device could simply provide a momentary opportunity to not only observe the past, but be observed simultaneously. This is where the story starts to come together, taking facts from our current time and applying them to this fictional premise.
According to statistics released by world health organizations, as many as %50 of all Americans could be obese by 2025. A fancy illustration is even used:
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[/caption]Taking this tidbit of info, one can give earth technology another 50 years or so, maybe by 2075 (if we haven't been smacked by another era ending meteorite) before it advances to the point necessary for quantum theory to be proven and mastered to the point of being able to manipulate such time interface technology. Taking the stats given previously, we can assume that this obesity epidemic will have gained exponentially by that time so that even the highest ranking quantum scientists, lab techs, and researchers have all grown as well. Let's just say that in a sci-fi world, one can take those stats and imagine a potential "fat future". Then, imagine that the past is interfaced, by none other than a big female researcher. In a typical attempt for sci-fi to predict the future and explain the past, our future obese quantum physicist actually causes the beginning of a self-fulfilling prophecy!
Seeing the stunning shape of the obese researcher appearing in the "future portal", paleolithic era homo sapiens are amazed to the point where it is seen as a sign from something "superior", something "magic", maybe it's "God". A whole prehistoric drama unfolds. With each passing experiment in paleolithic observation, our portly researcher leaves our ancestors with a need to explain, a need to understand, and a need to respect and document such an unnatural spectacle. The Venus of Willendorf statues are relevant and important not because they are big females, but because they are the first attempt of primitive man to re-create the human form in a semi-permanent medium. It is fascinating to play with the "man created God" aspect of sci-fi and all of the past events that could be explained away with a little imagination and a little observation of the state of our current technology and our potential as a race to improve it exponentially.
Even in the most outlandish fiction, there is that slight probability of some future truth being told. In this "chicken or egg" dilemma of evolution and obesity, I can be amused with wondering if prehistoric man started growing supersized females as an early, primitive religious ritual, or were they influenced by something they saw and had contact with and therefore mimicked by growing women in the tribe with a certain shape to prehistorically unrealistic size. It has been pointed out that these statues come from a period where human society had not yet invented farming. Because of this, it is pointed out that the statues were more about an "earth goddess" in early religion, or they represented fertility, or a yearning for security in a time when resources were scarce. There are many interpretations, but it seems that archaeologists do not want to assume the statues were carved from a real life model. Wouldn't it be a kick in the ass if they were to discover more proof that morbid obesity in another human era was revered and respected in an equal manner to which it is discouraged and rejected now!
When I said that the Venus could be a "warning", one theory is that we are being warned that we will harm our evolution in some way if we attempt to intervene when it comes to individuals over a certain size. Another type of warning could be in the way that it is our destiny to grow in size as part of our very evolution in adjusting to a lifestyle where chasing and poking wild game with sticks is not necessary to eat anymore. One obvious warning to me is that fat is the last acceptable prejudice.
The statues exist to show humanity that fat has been around for tens of thousands of years, and as humans who have well developed intelligence and technology, we still have no instruction manual for the human body and we cannot control or change the instinct to feed and store. By attempting to wipe out obesity, it's as if human beings are so over-confident in the ways of mind control that we think we can bully people who are "too big" to shrink down to our "acceptable standards". The truth is that human beings evolved over several millennium, and fat was an ingenious way for humans to eat and store in preparation for lean times or harsh seasons. If any researcher is confident that he will solve this "obesity problem", then he must have a direct line to the Gods of the future because he must have overcome human evolution itself. Too bad they can't overcome so many other pathologies in their struggle to manipulate evolution itself!
In the future I will further address the phenomenon of paleolithic obesity, because it is both a well of potential fiction and a harsh slap in the face for all of those who think we can cure millions of years of evolution "in a generation"! Obesity man challenges!
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