Stephen A. Smith puts sport to one side to post bizarre five-minute rant on why he prefers 'natural' women to 'big booties' - before revealing: 'I have no desire to be with any woman as flat as me'

Stephen A. Smith embarked on a bizarre rant about how he prefers 'natural' women to those with 'big booties'.

The ESPN analyst also explained - at length - why his male viewers should want to be dating a 'strong seven'.

Smith, who recently gave sex tips to his followers on social media, explained how he prefers women with 'voluptuousness'. 

Asked if he prefers 'Bbl or natural', Smith went on an almost five-minute tangent.

The 56-year-old said: 'You know what that means? The big booties - that's what they're talking about here.

'What would I prefer? well, natural. I would like to state this because it's very, very important. It's no secret what I have a proclivity for and it's been the case all my life, my adult life that is. 

'I have no desire to be with any woman as flat as me. To each his own but if I've got my As and Ts than you then nah. I'm on YouTube so I can say "a**" and "t**s" but I just didn't feel like it.

'But if I've got more of that than you then I don't need you. I'm sorry I just don't. Some level of voluptuousness has to exist. I want curves. You can have some up here, I prefer a lot back there no doubt about it.

'Legs matter, hips matter. I don't want you ugly but you don't have to look like Halle Berry or Beyonce, either. Strong seven. Strong seven.

'Now I'm going to deviate from this subject to bring up what a strong seven is because there's not a man alive that's going to disagree with what I'm about to break down so I want the ladies to listen because I'm trying to be here for you.

'You want a strong seven. Let me tell you why. 10 is too much maintenance because she knows she's fine and you're expendable. She can take you or leave you.

'A nine is a problem too because you got enough people telling her she's a 10 so half of them acting that way. And the other half still require more from you than what others might and so you've got to be up on your game. 

'Eight is ideal because that's really, really good looking. She got it going on but at the same time there's a level of independence that comes with it which is never a bad thing until she's so independent that she's making you feel like you need to be more dependent on her than she needs to be on you.

'Here's where the strong seven comes in. Looks wise she can compete with an eight but her mentality is not that of an eight. So she's more appreciative of you wanting her.

'As a result she shows an elevated level of appreciation for you wanting her, therefore she treats you like she wants you and, as a result, you have more of a good time together. 

'Everybody knows I'm telling the truth. This is what it is. Strong seven - and that doesn't mean she's not an eight. But strong seven is somebody who looks like an eight but doesn't act like one. 

'That's what makes her special. Those are the ones who are married. 

'The others... long engagements, quick marriages and divorces or just perpetual singlehood because they spent so much time showing you that you were expendable that you finally looked at them and said "that's why I don't want your a**". Because I'm expendable. 

'You're going to dump me anyway when it's time. Why waste my time? Did I not break that down? I believe I did.'

Smith is not married and never has been. He has spoken openly before - on his YouTube show - about his happiness at living a single life.

'I’m 55 years old, I’ve never been married and I’m happy about it,' he said in an episode back in October. It's not the most popular thing to say.'

Last month Smith gave sex tips to his followers on social media.

Replying to fan questions on social media, he really did prove that no topic was out of bounds in a Q&A as part of his YouTube show.

One fan asked him what the best meal before sex is, to which the 56-year-old said: 'Ok, first of all water, no alcohol.

'I would tell you a salad. You don't want your stomach heavy before you try and get down, you know what I'm saying? It'll bring you down and prevent you from getting up to the degree that you want to get up.

'You don't want spicy foods either. It can mess with your stomach. You don't want stomach problems when you're trying to get excited. So I would tell you a nice salad.

'But you know what the best thing to do? Protein drink. Protein drink but not something that is going to lay in your stomach. And water because you want the blood circulating in all the right places at all the right times.'