What is the obsession with thigh gaps?

I've had 'Thunder Thighs' forever. In the summer I would wear a skirt and my thighs would be so sore after walking. They would rub together and cause a rash and sometimes bleeding. I'm 24lbs lighter and I've noticed a small gap appearing when I stand. Its a lovely feeling. I always hated my thighs more than any other part of my body and now I'm noticing a change Thigh gaps are great.

I'm just saying a thigh gap doesn't necessarily mean that you are too thin. If you are my height (5' 4"), weigh 127 pounds (Goal Weigh, been there before), workout, and get really muscular and toned legs... they will not rub together.

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No matter how skinny I've been, even under 100lb, my thighs touch. For some women, that is simply how their body fat is distributed and a healthy woman will always have body fat. For other women, their body fat isn't arranged like that and their thighs won't touch if they're a healthy weight. But to deliberately seek to achieve this as a goal seems bizarre.

I've always wondered whether this crazy obsession is linked to men (and women's!) equally crazy obsession with the size of a man's appendage. The idea being that the less that gets in the way of a chap getting right there and giving a woman a jolly good seeing to, the more it seems as if they have to offer...

Or maybe it's that whole thing of some men (and women!) liking the look of women with a prepubescent image, such as zero body hair, no breasts, no hips, &c. basically not liking everything that happens to a girl when she becomes a woman.

Neither seems sensible, but they're the only ideas I can come up with.

I'm most amused by the phrase 'jolly good seeing to'. :-)

but yeah, this is genetics. You either have the capacity for it, or you don't. Like having big boobs, or a long swanlike neck. And these things go in and out of fashion. No point at all in getting tied up in knots about it.

I guess it would just be nice if my inner thighs didn't wobble like jelly and rub together so much i look like i've pooped myself from the pain!! I just want to wear a skirt this summer and not have to wear tights!

I have a natural thigh gap when my weight is healthy. I've never given a thought as to whether it's sexy - I just know it's more comfortable!

I guess it depends a bit on the shape of your legs, but I have this when I am in normal weight and I find it sexy. Also when I get fatter it comes together and it chafes - nothing makes me feel less sexy than thigh rub.

^^^^^^THIS...........thigh rub is NOT sexy when you have large thighs!

I'm not sure about the gap, but I remember the day I noticed mine were no longer bleeding and chaffing with every step I took. That was a great day! That's all that matters to me!!!

That's a ditto for me as well - even though I'm a guy. Great post.

I have a thigh gap

You jelly?

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I've had 'Thunder Thighs' forever. In the summer I would wear a skirt and my thighs would be so sore after walking. They would rub together and cause a rash and sometimes bleeding. I'm 24lbs lighter and I've noticed a small gap appearing when I stand. Its a lovely feeling. I always hated my thighs more than any other part of my body and now I'm noticing a change Thigh gaps are great.

^^^this.

Well my BMI is at the high end of normal, and I have over a stone left to lose before I reach my goal, and I already have a small gap at the top of my thighs when I stand up straight and look in the mirror. So I will undoubtably have a noticeable one when I'm done.. but I won't be anywhere near underweight! I'd never specifically AIM for one though.

Mind the Gap Mondays ....Google it! :laugh:

I think the gap is probably one of the most attractive things on a woman. That and a toned stomach

the ricketts look is in?

Hey now. :grumble: