Posted by figleaf on
Sun, 2012-08-05 17:39
On the one hand they say men are "naturally" attracted to younger women.
On the other hand they say men are "naturally" attracted to women with big boobs.
On the third hand, however, almost all women's boobs continue to get bigger as they grow older.
Discuss?
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So very Total Recall, no?
Submitted by Absurdist (not verified) on Sun, 2012-08-05 19:32.So very Total Recall, no?
WRT the third hand -- eh,
Submitted by Irene (not verified) on Mon, 2012-08-06 14:09.WRT the third hand -- eh, it's more complicated. You've got the question of not fully grown (teenagers) versus fully grown women, you've got non-pregnant/lactating versus the reverse, and you've got women who do/don't put on significant amounts of weight as they get older. Seems to me if you're looking just at full-grown women who don't put on much weight over the years, and leave out the pregnant/nursing part, if anything they tend to get smaller eventually.
In my own case, I don't think I ever felt "bigger" than I did when I was thirteen or fourteen and was simply a lot closer to my adult figure than most girls are at that age. I think the reason I got a lot of crap for it from guys on the street was actually not so much the combination of youth and larger breasts, but the degree of self-consciousness I had about it. I was a lot easier to scare and humiliate because I was shy and not used to my figure yet, so I was attractive in the bullying sense, not so much the sexual sense. I'm not at all convinced the evo-psych folks know the difference.
Yeah I always figured it was
Submitted by KaralynZ (not verified) on Fri, 2012-08-17 08:45.Yeah I always figured it was a fertility thing - pregnancy/lactating = bigger boobs = fertile and able to feed their offspring. And since the number of males out there who admit that they find pregnanct women sexy continues to surprise me, the idea that lots of other males unknowingly find it sexy seems feasible.
As someone who has done the reproduction thing, when my milk came in a few days after my child was born, i looked at myself in the miror topless and I was astonished. I looked like a porn star with huge (hard) implants. I think that this must be connected.
And also as we all know, not ALL men like large breasts. I know plenty of men who are in the (as they say) itty bitty titty committe. But I know you're talking generalizations here, as you frequently do.
Who me? You know I *never*
Submitted by figleaf on Tue, 2012-08-21 00:01.Who me? You know I *never* generalize! :-) Thanks, KaralynZ.