@habeeb_akande1: Fat Women Are Beautiful in Mauritania, northwest Africa. "Big is beautiful and stretch marks are sexy" according to Mauritanian beauty standards where pump women with fat buttocks are highly desired. Contrary to the Western world that prefers thin women, the semi-nomadic Moors of the Sahara desert have for centuries cherished a feminine ideal of fatness. In fact, an estimated 80% of the world's societies prefer plump women, writes Rebecca Popenoe, author of Feeding Desire. For centuries, being plump with big buttocks has been considered beautiful in Mauritania, as elsewhere in Africa and the precolonial Arab world. In pre-Islamic poetry and early Arabic literature, women with rolls of belly fat were considered the height of attractiveness.