How and when did the term " thick" become a complimentary term to describe a woman's body?

I for one was insulted when I first heard someone describe me that way...

I've come to learn that it's complimentary and now like being described that way.

BTW, it was a very handsome and athletic Black Man who taught me better.
When did it stop is more of the real question. If you see paintings of women in the Roman period most of them are thick and curvy. All throughout the early 19th century curvy women were used in ads. Not sure where and when the twig skinny girl trend came in to play and body shaming. Plus men who are well hung need curvy thicker women. Skinny girls aren’t as much fun to play with!
 
you'd have to go all the way back to the Commodores when they made the song "Brick House" in 1977.
That might sound offensive, comparing a woman to a house😅😅😅, but that's actually a high compliment meaning a woman has a very curvy body
...and that was modified from the phrase "brick ******* house." Back on the plantation and in real rural parts of America, the only plumbing was a shack-like, outhouse made of wood that was always weather worn and falling down. An outhouse made of brick was considered heavenly beautiful and wonderful. Thus, when a woman's body was very desirable and attractive, she was as fine as a brick ******* house!!

Being from Alabama, the Commodores were well aware of that phrase.
 
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Back in the '60s, before mainstream or music heard on the radio could "tell it like it is" about sex, there were other ways of saying what men liked about women (and I'm talking black men and women). A popular blues song back then done by lots of musicians was "Big Leg Woman." It talks about how everything about a big legged woman was what the singer liked - including the clothes she wore that were especially tight. Of course, it was "thickness" the song was talking about. You can't have a big leg woman without big thighs and a big ass. The idea of liking thickness has been expressed in mainstream black culture going way back to (and before) the Great Migration.

Also, as a young boy, the contrast was that you didn't like or were attracted to white American women physically because they were known to traditionally have flat asses. Of course, there were always the big-ass Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell types and they were - um-hm - big ass, big tittied women. And I discovered later in life that there were more than enough thick white women to go around and enjoy...

(And that's not even getting to what women were considered the most desirable for bearing children in many African tribes, which made big hipped, thick women the most sexually desirable...)
 
...and that was modified from the phrase "brick ******* house." Back on the plantation and in real rural parts of America, the only plumbing was a shack-like, outhouse made of wood that was always weather worn and falling down. An outhouse made of brick was considered heavenly beautiful and wonderful. Thus, when a woman's body was very desirable and attractive, she was as fine as a brick ******* house!!

Being from Alabama, the Commodores were well aware of that phrase.
Thank you for sharing that with us hun ❤.
I had no idea. 💋
 
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