Women's breasts

[Jonluw]

... People generally regard it as unproblematic for children up to around three or four years of age to be exposed to breasts...

Wait, what? Does this mean you were breastfed up to 3 to 4 years of age?

No, I'm pretty sure I wasn't.
Even though it isn't common to breastfeed that late, I don't get the impression that people are worried about 4 year olds seeing boobs. It's not like you cover the eyes of your 4 year old if some boobs suddenly appear on the tv.

Hell, I've even seen dicks on posters in the street. I'd rather have more public tits, but I guess the womenfolk have a right to see the occasional wang out in the open as well.

I've always been of the impression that women (and gay guys for that matter) don't really find dongs particularly appealing. Visually, that is.
Women would probably be happier with some toned shirtless guy on the poster.
So I'm guessing no one gets enjoyment, aside from the occasional laugh, from the dick posters. Everybody loses.

 

[Flamezdudes]

You fools! You all underestimate... THE MAN BOOB.

 

[Fat Hippo]

... People generally regard it as unproblematic for children up to around three or four years of age to be exposed to breasts...

Wait, what? Does this mean you were breastfed up to 3 to 4 years of age?

No, I'm pretty sure I wasn't.
Even though it isn't common to breastfeed that late, I don't get the impression that people are worried about 4 year olds seeing boobs. It's not like you cover the eyes of your 4 year old if some boobs suddenly appear on the tv.

Hell, I've even seen dicks on posters in the street. I'd rather have more public tits, but I guess the womenfolk have a right to see the occasional wang out in the open as well.

I've always been of the impression that women (and gay guys for that matter) don't really find dongs particularly appealing. Visually, that is.
Women would probably be happier with some toned shirtless guy on the poster.
So I'm guessing no one gets enjoyment, aside from the occasional laugh, from the dick posters. Everybody loses.

So really, what we need is posters of toned shirtless guys...with tits! Everybody wins!

 

[Dags90]

I've always been of the impression that women (and gay guys for that matter) don't really find dongs particularly appealing. Visually, that is.

I think that's probably a false impression. Pretty much half of the erotic male/male fanfic written by women features comically long dicks. Gay men at least tend to keep things closer to a foot long. I prefer my dicks attached to guys though, a disembodied dick might as well be a super realistic dildo.

I think breast feeding should be a non issue for infants, and I don't particularly see why breasts should be censored at all. I'm all for topfreedom, as it were.

I've always wondered how the milk is stored in breasts. Is it just in a little sack, or is it saturating all the breast tissue, so the tissue is very very milky and it gets drawn to the nipple when sucked. If you stuck a pin in a breast would it leak milk?

Good grief, I am truly a virgin.

Sort of in between. There are bunch of small milk glands in the breast. If you stuck a pin in a breast, you'd mostly just get a good smack to the face (and probably assault charges).

 

[Jonluw]

I've always been of the impression that women (and gay guys for that matter) don't really find dongs particularly appealing. Visually, that is.

I think that's probably a false impression. Pretty much half of the erotic male/male fanfic written by women features comically long dicks. Gay men at least tend to keep things closer to a foot long. I prefer my dicks attached to guys though, a disembodied dick might as well be a super realistic dildo.

Straight women may like the thought of dicks in general, but I don't think that's an indication that they find them visually appealing.

i.e. A picture of a dick (or a vagina for that matter) is hardly sexy.

 

[Headsprouter]

[sub]Sorry[/sub]​

HA! Lousy effort. Your attempt to keep me away from tits has failed - I have downloaded that image and ran a Fourier analysis, then a Turing test to determine the encryption algorithms. I have since managed to crack them and I just finished the molecular reconstruction of the original image and it would be ready in 3..2..1..

...you bastard. You censored the original as well. Now I have to sacrifice another goat to repeat the process again.

You could've also gone for some boobies.

Blue-footed booby and the bluetit, what's with mammary glands and blueness?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

They added a boob slider to The Sims 3 after the massive 25-30 years old female userbase pointed out that it was slightly ridiculous. I mean I'm not corrupting my nephews mind just from being in the same room as him with a top on but he can still see my curves! 18 rating!!!.

With regards to the censorship of man bits I think the funniest thing I have seen was the recent 'dildo' Diablo 3 story in Kotaku. The facebook comments were full of 'I don't want dildo's on my news feed!' from men. Whereas the hundreds of stories about half naked anime chicks is perfectly fine.

It's crazy how protective or disturbed men are about their own sexual organ whereas women are expected to put up with pictures of boobs being plastered everywhere, especially in gaming. I think it's pretty funny personally.

 

[Palademon]

Urmmm.... you make some truly strange threads.

Sir, this is a very important discussion in which I eagerly await results!

 

[Relish in Chaos]

[I've always been of the impression that women (and gay guys for that matter) don't really find dongs particularly appealing. Visually, that is.

Depends. Some people do, some people don?t. Some straight guys don?t really find vaginas particularly appealing for that matter.

I did recently find a tumblr focused on the ?beauty? of the male genitalia, though.

Anyway, everywhere but Japan and parts of Europe are just complete prudes about, well, the naked body in general.

 

[Jonluw]

Although can you truly say a 5-12 year old would really be able to appreciate boobs? what with the whole "Not hitting puberty" and whatnot.

Same reasons we dont exactly like little kids being around a lot of cock.

Hey, I never said I don't want little kids around cock.
...
I ended up on some sort of watchlist right now, didn't I?

I don't get the whole "preserving their innocence" argument though. First of all, I don't see how being exposed to sexuality as a concept ruins their innocence. Second, if we didn't make a big deal out of them, boobs wouldn't be anything special that for some reason has the capacity to ruin innocence.

 

[ScourgeOfHell]

You know, usually when someone starts a socially awkward thread, they try to hide it's nature with a subtle title. Outrightly naming your thread "Women's Breasts" has to be the most courageous thing I've ever seen. Kudos to you.

 

[Jonluw]

Anyway, everywhere but Japan and parts of Europe are just complete prudes about, well, the naked body in general.

True that.
I'm getting sort of mixed signals though. On one hand, women aren't allowed to go topless around town here, but on the other I found a comic that depicted a man and a woman fisting eachother simultaneously in the newspaper today.

 

[FamoFunk]

Breasts are for feeding babies and infants. They shouldn't be hidden from anyone at any age if there's a small human being sucking from them.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

I hate the puritan stuffiness that still surrounds sex and sexuality as much as the next liberal-minded guy. However, a lot of women have enough trouble getting guys to look them in the face, rather than keeping their eyes fixed on their chest, at the best of times. Seeing topless women everywhere certainly wouldn't help stimulate intellectual discussion among people would it? Plus, consider all the men who will injure themselves by walking into lamp posts/off piers/into traffic, because they're not looking where they're going. What you suggest is dangerous man!

 

[chadachada123]

What I don't understand is how a child seeing naked bits could be harmful, seeing as (assuming 'average' sexuality, you know what I mean) he/she will either grow up to HAVE those bits (or already does) or will grow up to enjoy those bits, making any effort to shield them from view...pretty much pointless.

 

[isometry]

Civilization depends on delayed childbirth, it really is that simple.

 

[chadachada123]

Plus there are the more obvious arguments, they are too young to understand it all, we dont want to expose kids to things that we deem are too adult for them (Death, Gore, Sex) and, finally, there is just plain old modesty + logic.

If an 8 year old is regularly seeing boob, something has gone wrong. In the west (And the east. Ok, in everywhere outside of some tribes. Oh, and nudist colonies. But in my eyes that falls in between "Tribe" and "Cult".) women habitually wear clothing. This is just how it is. And because kiddies have no interest (And we dont want them to have any interest) tits etc are not exactly common in kiddie films.

So... I think that covers everything?

*wanders off and gets back to his research*

As far as understanding goes, though, it's not like little kids understand "love," either, but you (non-specific) can still do your job as a parent to give a general idea of what love is, as well as sex, and explain that they are both for older people.

Seems pretty simple to me.

Besides, it's not like little kids all of the time don't get forcibly exposed to death, either.

 

[Charli]

Because puritinist relgions got puberty early as a child and hated being the lone awkward geek so told everyone to cover up or they'll go to hell.

In a nutshell anyway.

But on the flipside, having them supported especially if you're on the larger end of the scale is a huge relief, we wouldn't be able to properly function with breasts of say size D and above without a bra/supportive clothing... True I don't think there should be any massive cover up but... for general day to day? Yeah covering them does serve a practical purpose as well as the former.

 

[Belaam]

Those blue tits might not be up for the serious amount of wood between them.

I've always wondered how the milk is stored in breasts. Is it just in a little sack, or is it saturating all the breast tissue, so the tissue is very very milky and it gets drawn to the nipple when sucked. If you stuck a pin in a breast would it leak milk?

Saturation with many veins leading to the nipples, which get darker with elongated nipples while nursing (most, but not all color fades after nursing stops). Some of the milk veins can get to a diameter of around pinky size. Sticking a pin in the breast of a nursing person would A) get you arrested. B) cause it to bleed. C) maybe have a bit of milk in the blood. If you could get an IV in one of the milk veins, you might be able to get some that way, but in most cases, you'd need suction too. i.e. Babies need to suck to get large flows.

 

[templar1138a]

I got to enjoy breasts during my childhood. Not real ones, but my parents got this educational software called A.D.A.M the Inside Story. It included a mode to look at illustrated (but completely anatomically-correct) anatomy with and without cutaways, and I learned quite a bit about the Lymphatic and Reproductive systems. I also discovered a book in my school library in fourth grade that was about sex. This was a kids book too. One for older kids, but still a kids book. It had detailed illustrations of breasts and even the vulva.

What did all this exposure do to me? Well, saying it made me more interested in breasts is like saying video games make us more violent; the main reason I viewed that media in the first place was because I already had a strong inclination.

What does this mean for me now? Well, I could probably do a proper check for breast tumors. Also, I like breasts, but outside a sexual context, the most they are is interesting to look at. My fiancée lets me casually grope hers when we're in private simply because I get the urge to do so. Once the urge has passed, I stop. She's the best woman ever.