I had learned (a long time ago) in college anthro that some experts thought perhaps the Venus figurines were carved by women themselves. In looking down at one's body a woman would see more curves - kind of an exaggerated view of the sexual characteristics of the body. And those figurines were eventually used for whatever 'the talk' used to consist of with young women in the society. It never occurred to me that there may have been a fetishized obese woman in the group...