Why do they call them "love handles"?!


Question: Have you ever actually seen a women grabbing them?


Answers: Have you ever actually seen a women grabbing them?

i fink it's mainly women who are refered to as having handles, but i know that when im with a fella and he's trailing me around a dancefloor il grab onto his handles and walk behind him, and ive seen loads of fellas do this to girls as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_handle...

"Love handles" is a colloquial or slang term for a layer of fat that is deposited around a person's midsection, especially visible on the sides over the abdominal external oblique muscle. They are called "love handles" because they provide a soft place to rest one's hand while one's arm is around a person, or perhaps because they can serve as places to hold on while in the throes of passion.

The term first appeared in the late 1960s, and is defined in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang as a bulge of fat at the side of the waist."[2]

Both men and women tend to be image-conscious regarding love handles, sometimes leading to a negative body image. While many products are marketed for eliminating love handles, it is generally agreed that spot reduction is impossible, and that the best way to reduce them is to lose fat by being more active (through activities such as cardiovascular exercise and weight training) and consuming fewer calories. ((lmao-....yeahh, like it's that easy!!!))

Despite being coined in the late 1960s, the expression is still widely used.Love handles are also colloquially called a spare tyre due to the enlarged tyre-like shape around the midsection ((don't they sound attractive??? haha))

nah...wat r dey

Because people who love food get them.

They are for hanging on to when the motion of the ocean gets rough.

haha! lol i don't know why they're called that! it's quite funny, - perhaps it's if a girl has them and the guys kinda holds on to her hips? i dunno.

LOL at ronnizle's answer!

i don't have love handles, but i guess if i did i would rest my hands on them. i stand with my hands on my hips so maybe if i had love handles i could put my hands on my love handles and love myself...
lol
i guess it could just be when a guy puts his arms around a girl, or just holds her waist, they're easy to hold onto? lol


lol @ hatethinkingofnickname...

they call them that because your spouse makes you burn them and that shows how "love handles" jk i have no idea.

You grab on and they give you leverage. Sometimes leverage is important!

Haha, nahh its a saying because they are so fat that they can hold on to them. Its a metaphor. They put love at the start to make being "fat" sound a bit comforting, though it really i'snt.

Love handles...its origin is from a poet who wrote his darling love a poem praising every part of her features to quell her suspicions of his unfaithfulness....of course whether it did the job or not.....

It's a euphemism to make all those tubbies out there feel confident naked. Joking joking.... though not really. And i think its cute (not the actual thing - the name)

my lover grabs them



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