Men and breasts

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This is inspired by the My First Strip Club thread, which I found very interesting, but I didn't want to post it there because it's a bit of a tangent.

It's fairly straightforward: why are most men obsessed with topless women? I just don't understand it. Cleavage can be rather nice, but naked breasts? OK, they're sexual in a sexual context; but your average page 3 pinup picture? I just don't get the attraction.

It's not as if I've had such an exciting sexualised life that I've become all blasé about them. I mean, I've seen plenty of real-life naked breasts in my time - probably more than most people, thinking about it - but I hardly have a very adventurous sex life, at least not in my opinion - certainly not compared to most people I know.

So, yes. Why do men like breasts? And don't even get me started on people who think breasts are shocking, especially if they think they somehow stop being shocking when slightly clothed. It's normal to have body parts, y'know.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I've always pondered this too. Maybe I could understand it more if there was a part of a mans body that a woman could totally sexualise.

Penis? Nah.... penises are ugly functional devices. I don't think I've ever thought 'Phwoar! Penis!'

I've felt jealous of men a little though. I've always wanted to have a penis of my own, if only for a little while, but I don't think this is the issue with breasts.

Yeah, it would be good if any 'tit-men' out there could shed light on the obsession...

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

You see, when a daddy see a mummy's titties, the daddy falls in love with the mummy. And if the daddy has a lot of money, the mummy and the daddy try to have a baby.

― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Monday, 24 April 2006 05:49 (twenty years ago)

As Seinfeld put it - whatever women try and cover up, THAT's what we want to see

― Dr J Bowman (Dr J Bowman), Monday, 24 April 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

Some penises are "ugly functional devices" but even the most avid "breast man" would surely agree that some breasts aren't much more than "ugly fuctional devices". Maybe they'd argue about "functional". Anyway, there is no shortage of delightful and erotic looking penises out there. Now with the advent of internet personals and the like I've actually seen guys who have terrific penises who are otherwise not attractive in the least. Ah well.

Part of me just wants to suggest that breasts are seen as attractive because breasts are seen as attractive. That is, that it's a cultural thing, and other cultures might make other body parts the main focus. (Which might also be why "penises are ugly", because it's simply "known" that penises are ugly, ladies am I right?)

Then again I'd also suggest that the idea that exposed breasts are "shocking" exists so that exposed breasts will be "shocking", because we want to feel that we are sometimes doing things that are "shocking", and it can really make things more sexually potent to be experiencing something "shocking". I've heard people explain burqas this way, that it leads to a much more eroticized concept of the female body. This might be true, although it hardly seems worth it to me...

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:08 (twenty years ago)

I still find breasts erotic and sexually potent in the right context, though, despite not finding them particularly shocking or arousing when it's just someone (or a picture of someone) being naked.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Prosaically, I think there are some evolutionary psychology explanations for why men like breasts, but I don't know how valid or provable that stuff is.

― 31g (31g), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

they are a symbolic bottom.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 24 April 2006 07:15 (twenty years ago)

i was disappointed to have found that this thread isn't about manbreasts.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:36 (twenty years ago)

"Ugh! Breasts! Ugh! Penises! Ugh! Nudity!"

What the hell is wrong with you people?

― David Orton (scarlet), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:44 (twenty years ago)

people wear horrible clothes.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Like ugh boots?

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

ugh ban outfitters

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 10:05 (twenty years ago)

They're the embodiment of everything that's desirable about the female body. Softness and curves. But I think the attraction lies in the sight providing a compulsion to touch or to 'have', as much as the sight of the boobs themselves. Men are programmed to want them. They're supposed to show fertility or maternal capability, right? Permission is usually required before reaching out and 'having' though.

― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:28 (twenty years ago)

"if the twin peaks exists you can climb"
etc

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 11:31 (twenty years ago)

WHAT IS IT WITH U PPL AND OXYGEN HUH SRSLY WHATS THE DEAL

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:04 (twenty years ago)

"if there are twin O's you can inhale" etc

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:06 (twenty years ago)

You can live without tits, g-kit.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:07 (twenty years ago)

i can't make life without tits though

― teh_kit has 18 friends (g-kit), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:11 (twenty years ago)

20,000 year old 'Venus of Dolni Vestonice' (Czech Republic) to thread!

http://donsmaps.com/clickphotos/dvvenusbwside.jpg

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

yo why does that ho got a ball-sack on her sternums

― ath (ath), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

You can live without tits, g-kit.

IF YOU CALL THAT "LIVING" etc etc.

― Dan (Breasts = YAY) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

in addition to all said above, breasts are sort of aesthetically pleasing in their own right.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

And left.

― Dan (WA-HEY) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

i fear the ones with scary nipples, but otherwise yeah pretty!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Define scary!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

Heavily armed.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

I have to say, I've seen a variety of nipples, but I've never seen any heavily-armed ones.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Armed with nipple hair?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

to answer the thread question the best way i know how:

If you don't already know, I can't explain it to you.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/karenmarie813/tits.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

i started a thread about this with a more "controversial" title a few weeks ago and got called out for being a sexist.

but, still, boobs ought to be secondary to a nice smile and an IQ of at least 130.

― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Ew jiggly fat bags on lady chest. me hate
yay big strong lady hips for crushing head with vice like grip. me like

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:32 (twenty years ago)

precious breasts

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/37084_m.gif

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

If you do a little research, you'll find that the pick-up truck in the above picture is getting warmer, not colder.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Forest Pines, you must not have been prematurely weaned like the rest of the developed world.
Well, on second thought, I don't know about that. Many among the current crop of laddies enjoyed an extended period of breastfeeding (at least here on this island of organic-cotton diapers and home schooling), and they're just as tit-obsessed as the bottle babies of the repressed 50's and (early)60's.
Maybe you have to go for the full five-year hunter-gatherer tribe package.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I think there's a more likely cause, but I'm not going to tell you what it is.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't like most evolutionary psych explanations for boobs=cuet, but especially the "breasts are hot cause they are a symbolic bottom" theory because why not the other way around (asses look hot because they look like breasts?). The whole theory for chest=symbolic bottom says men will be more likely to mate if the have this nippled ass flopping around at them while mating in missionary position, like completely ignoring the 124 other sex positions. Not to mention that it doesn't explain why having this symbolic ass right there would make it more appealing, just that it does somehow. This kind of evolutionary theory is a bothersome grab bag of 'whatever works' kind of theories for when they can't figure out seemingly impractical adaptations.

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

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