Boobs! Men's Complex Feelings About Women's Breasts
Castleman M.A. on Jun 14, 2013 in All About Sex
An old joke tells of four women who interview for a job with a male
boss. The choice is difficult because all four are clearly qualified.
So who gets the job? The one with the largest breasts.
Men typically smile at the punch line, but women often cringe, feeling
tyrannized by breast size the way many men feel oppressed by the size
clothing.
were smart, kind, and fun, who could put up with me, and who were
willing to remove their bras, I felt so grateful that I thoroughly
enjoyed whatever fell out of them.
The Conventional Wisdom: Men Prefer Large Breasts
notion that men prefer big boobs:
so did the number of men who approached them.
men viewed women with various-size breasts. While small boobs
with medium to large breasts. (Many women complain that men talk to
their breasts, not to their faces.)
The bra industry supports the idea that bigger is better. The first
straps made of ribbon. Soon after, padded bras appeared to make
breasts look bigger. In 1948, Frederick Mellinger, founder of
Frederick's of Hollywood, introduced the push-up bra, which made them
look even larger. And in 1994 the Wonderbra became a sensation. A
refinement of the push-up concept that accented cleavage, Wonderbra
tripled sales of push-up bras from less than 3 percent of the market
to 10 percent.
Finally, since 1990, the average American bra size has increased from
34B to 36C. Ditto for England. One reason is breast augmentation.
Surgeons now perform 317,000 boob jobs annually (vs. around 100,000
reductions).
Plenty of Men Love Small Breasts
But beyond augmentations, another reason explains more of the recent
increases, so does breast size, and with one-third of American adults
Meanwhile, flat-chested models dominate the fashion runways of Paris,
Milan, and New York. And because top models often wed celebrities or
small breasts.
discussions. Participants were self-selected and not representative,
but the comments were all over the map. Some said they could feel
attracted only to women with a specific endowment. (The leading
preference was large, followed by medium then small.) But like me,
many men insisted that when they fell in love, they fell in love with
This dovetails with the visual evidence displayed in that major window
the zillion free porn-sampler sites (lobstertube.com, cliti.com, etc.)
and you can view men erotically enraptured by women of every
imaginable size from utterly flat to zeppelins.
Finally, English and Malaysian researchers showed full-body photos of
women to 361 men, who rated their attractiveness. The women with large
breasts were not considered the most attractive. The honor when to the
women with medium-size endowments.
Breast Size and Evolutionary Psychology
Paleolithic cave art dating back 35,000 years portrays naked women
maybe it has to do with reproductive fitness. Just as any size penis
can cause a pregnancy, all breasts can swell with milk and nurture
infants. But evolution seems to have primed men to believe that women
with larger breasts are a better reproductive bet.
Long before the contemporary obesity epidemic, when food was scarce
and starvation a real threat, large, fatty breasts suggested caloric
reserves. That, in turn, suggested that the women had reliable access
their impregnators. English and Malaysian researchers showed
photographs of women with varying breast size to 266 Malaysian men
whose socioeconomic status ranged from poor to wealthy. Poor men
showed a significantly greater preference for large breasts than
middle-class men, who in turn were more likely to prefer larger
wealthiest men often fall for skinny models.)
Then the researchers showed the photos to 66 Englishmen who were
those who felt hungry rated larger breasts significantly more
attractive. Taken together, these studies suggest that resource
Breast Size and Sexism
Some evidence also suggests that oppressive attitudes toward women may
considered women with medium-size breasts the most attractive. The
researchers also asked them to complete a survey that explored their
feelings about women in society. The most sexist showed a strong
preference for large breasts, while the more egalitarian men preferred
smaller breasts.
So do men really want women with big boobs? Some do, at least in
fantasy, hence the joke about the woman who gets the job. But many
complex than the stereotype would have us believe.
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