Kindred to save the day!

Both men and women can have them. (Noticed this was in Women's Sexual Health.) They wouldn'y effect the sex life at all. It's just another thing that can be sexualized like a collar bone.

Thanks for the explanation Kindred! My girlfriend is the opposite. She has the hip bones but no visible dimples. Other stuff I love very much is a central line above the bellybutton! I think that one comes from muscles.

Will the dimples appear if somebody loses weight?

I like dimples, I have them, and I don't think they effect anything.

I'm a plus-sized woman and mine are fully visible. And, yes, as Kindred said, they're just the markers of your SI joints

I think how visible one's iliac crest is has to do with the angle at which the ilia (plural for ilium) tilt. Some people's ilia tilt and curve forward more while other people's ilia tilt back some.

I've also puzzled over the reason some people have concave lines where their spine is while others have slightly convex lines in which the vertebrae are visible as little bumps (mine has always been the latter, no matter my weight or fitness level). I used to think it had to do with how much muscle the person has on his or her back, but even when working out and building muscle, some people still have the visible vertebrae while some thin people with seemingly little muscle have the concave line. I suppose it's just genetics for this particular trait as well.

Other cool genetic traits to contemplate are whether you have free-hanging or attached ear lobes, "hitch hiker's thumbs," or a tongue that you can laterally roll/curl.

None of these things amount to a hill of beans, really, but as long as it's not asserted that either the presence or absence of any of these traits is "superior," then it's always fun to compare differences. Variety makes things interesting. It would be boring if we all looked the same.

That's a disturbing picture.

We should, perhaps, not cast stones at the way people look--there are people right here in this community who ARE that thin, or who ARE battling eating disorders, and saying that body types similar to theirs are disturbing is just unkind.

I'm not being unkind. Being anorexic and dangerously skinny IS disturbing. I went through a period where I hardly ate at all. Though I didn't know it then it was a very disturbing time in my life and NOT healthy at all. I ended up being hospitalized. People who are battling eating disorders need to know it is disturbing and that they're dying slowly. That's a fact, it's not an unkind dis.

I had to look 3 times to realize that girl is a bit too thin I was so focused on the beautiful hips. Anyway, we have some really long and informative posts here I'm glad I opened this topic. It's not that easy to open an interesting discussion but this is going well

I follow this blog, ideagasms who published a video a few years ago teaching squirting and Stephanie said girls who have visible dimples have better luck at achieveing quirting. I was looking for a confirmation that it was true or he just said that. They tend to sell very clickbank-y stuff that I dislike, so maybe they was wrong about this too. But they have some genuine value in their newsletters..

Back on track it's weird that males can have dimples too. I gotta check mine in the mirror!

As someone who is in treatment, trust me. When I was dying slowly, it was deeply disturbing. My days were spent vomiting for 2-3 hours, working out for one hour, and sleeping for about 16 hours because I was too weak to do anything else and I knew I was dying. There are people in some online communities who idolize it, but they're usually not the ones dying of the disorder.

I only posted the picture to show which hip bones I was referring to, as there are many bones and knobs that make up the human pelvis. I didn't mean for it to be triggering. Is it possible for a moderator to delete it now?

I'm at a healthy weight and I have them. When I weighed a little less (and was still at a healthy weight) they were a little more prominent, but they're still visible nonetheless