Change of tables: the butt threatens to banish the chest as a sexual symbol

It is paradoxical how the human body, which has required centuries of evolution, is what adapts most quickly to the fashions and trends of the moment.

Of course, the anatomical evolution, as far as butts are concerned, today receives various aids: from plastic surgery to the butt

brought by the Latin migration, passing through cular

, destined to sculpt granite buttocks.

There are already modalities such as the

, the

or the GAP (buttocks-legs-abdomen), essential to enter the Kardashian club, because the rearguard has become the new female sexual symbol that even threatens to banish the eternal and legendary breasts.

But in this most difficult society it is still not enough to have a great tambourine, you have to show it to the world and know how to move it.

That's why the

was born , a self-portrait of the final part of the back, which begins to overshadow the selfie, just like

and

.

YouTube is full of tutorials that teach how to move your ass independently;

at the same time that they connect areas of our brain, already atrophied due to our evolutionary passage to the bipedal mode, with our gluteal muscles, until now unnecessary to spend 10 hours a day sitting in front of a desk.

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But why this meteoric rise of butts as representatives and repositories of

female

For Dr. Orestes Fernández, a plastic surgeon in the area of ​​body surgery at the Benito Institute in Barcelona, ​​“today, artists and

are the ones who are changing these trends.

In this case, we can say that Jennifer Lopez started it years ago and the Kardashians have expanded it.

Finally, a body has become fashionable that is reminiscent of that of the Brazilian woman who, generally, does not have too much chest but powerful buttocks”.

A singularity of the ass is that it is unisex and that everyone has one, regardless of their sex and gender, so placing attractiveness in this part of the anatomy is more sympathetic to

philosophy and gender fluidity, in addition to being much more profitable.

According to Dr. Fernández, “most of the implants that are currently done are breast implants;

but they are followed by those of the buttocks, which are not exclusive to the female gender, since many men also demand them, especially people within the LGTBI collective.

He also highlights: “Another phenomenon that is growing a lot is that when a patient, whether male or female, undergoes liposuction, they ask that we put that fat that we have removed on their buttocks, trying to give the ass a better shape. more upturned”.

Ass I see, ass I want, seems to be the thesis defended by this surgeon.

Years of watching videos of reggaeton, bachata and other Latin and African rhythms have accustomed the retinas to big asses that throb to the rhythm of the music;

and of course, few want to join the row of semi-rigid ass-folders.

Cover of 'Paper' magazine starring Kim Kardashian in 2014.

“In global society, white-hetero-Caucasian is no longer the majority.

Thanks to migration there are more colours, tastes and bodies”, points out Delfina Mieville, a sociologist and sexologist with a practice in Madrid.

“Therefore, those bodies that I cannot indoctrinate, I buy.

I can't with gays?

I create a whole range of aesthetics and services.

Can't I override the Latino population?

I create things to sell to them and make them my customers.

Who would have told us, 40 years ago, that we would go with backwards caps, face tattoos or basketball jerseys that look like long dresses!

Who would have thought that we would forget our rigid dances in favor of salsa or bachata!

The buttocks, back then, were a symbol of fertility;

now they are one more product of the market, in a capitalism that sells everything”.

On the other hand, focusing sexual attention on the ass refers to our most primitive side.

Animals, when excited or in heat, sniff each other's rears, which share the vicinity of the sexual organs, and copulate from behind, except for our first cousins, the bonobos, who do it face-to-face.

According to Sylvain Bosselet, a French psychologist, philosopher, writer and author of

(Bréal publishing house)

it took humans a long time to

upright and the anatomical consequence of this was translated into round buttocks (unlike other great apes) as a means of muscular locomotion and extension of an S-shaped spinal column. The verticality hid the female genitalia and the impossibility to detect, at a glance, the state of availability of the woman.

The generous breasts then became an indicator of fertility and the ability to suckle the young;

but larger hips and buttocks were also associated with greater ease of calving and a reserve of fat, necessary for the long rearing of children or to survive lean times.”

Large hips and buttocks have been linked in women with easier childbirth. zhihao (Getty Images)

But the butt also refers us to a non-reproductive sexuality and, therefore, prohibited during much of the history of humanity;

in which religions and prevailing morality denigrated romps without consequences.

Anal sex was the back door to premarital sex for women who wanted to be virgins at marriage.

The ass as a place of pleasure and pain.

Everything can happen there except a reproductive act.

In this context, and according to Bosselet, “the buttocks gain prominence to the detriment of the breasts;

since they are detached from the act of having offspring, they are common to both sexes and, by symbolizing fertility for centuries, they keep their exciting nature”.

“Butts could be a return to brute nature and our bestial origin.

Even the phenomenon could be interpreted as a feminine strategy to conquer a greater parcel of power in the macho society.

The male desire for female asses brings men to their knees”, says this philosopher, using the symbol that the breasts are at eye level, while to touch or kiss a butt you have to bend down a bit.

The rearguard is also more connected with a more impersonal sex, less romantic,

where the other is not seen and where there is no face to face.

Or, it may be related, as Delfina Mieville points out, to "riskier practices, typical of BDSM, and the attraction of everything that has to do with having someone with your back turned, whom you cannot see or control."

The fashion history books agree that turbulent times like silhouettes with volumes.

Perhaps we are returning to the model of past centuries, where the rich were people who were overweight (a sign of wealth and opulence) and the poor were thin.

Even the clothes of the upper class exaggerated their contours, as was the case with the pads that women wore in the eighteenth century to prolong their buttocks, called

or

(in English) and

(in French).

Perhaps the rotund buttocks are saying, in Morse code, that the barns have to be filled because hard times of scarcity are coming.

Rita Abundancia is a journalist, sexologist and author of the website