It may very well be argued that if males didn’t worship large breasts, girls wouldn’t be obsessive about enlarging them. If the media didn’t proceed to rent big-breasted girls to advertise merchandise, teenage boys wouldn’t focus their sexual power on them. Even the standard willowy, excessive vogue fashions have been remodeled into extra titillating intercourse symbols like Tyra Banks and Heidi Klum. And what would TV be with out seeing the ever scintillating, bouncing breasts of Pamela Anderson? What’s extra, Oscar successful actresses like Halle Berry are drop lifeless attractive with impeccable breasts, so it’s no surprise that males are fascinated, mesmerized and sometimes obsessive about breasts.

The fascination with breasts isn’t a current phenomenon. Breasts have been celebrated, admired and envied all through the ages, as evinced in historical artwork and vogue. In 1600 BC, there have been sculptures of Minoan naked breasted excessive priestesses. Thereafter, many statues portrayed multi-breasted goddesses to indicate energy. In historical Egypt, girls adorned their breasts with primitive work and added perfumes to draw the alternative intercourse. In addition they saved their breasts naked in order that they might often suckle their infants.  In early Rome and Greece, Nubian slaves uncovered their breasts to please their masters. Greek sculptors and Athenian vases often depicted uncovered breasts.

Even through the reign of Christianity, round 341 AD, when girls had been pressured to put on shapeless fashions, artwork often portrayed girls with a number of of their breasts uncovered to indicate fertility moderately than sexuality.

Within the 14^th Century, necklines lowered, garments tightened and breasts had been as soon as once more exhibited to the delight of each red-blooded man. It was through the Renaissance interval that the corset was born.  Breasts had been pushed up, pushed collectively and molded into agency protruding decorations of want that emphasised breasts to the max.

In 1508, Michelangelo was commissioned to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which he adorned with nudity in his portrayal of Adam and Eve. Rembrandt’s famend portrait The Jewish Bride from 1666 depicts the husband holding his spouse’s left breast as if he’s claiming her.

Within the 17^th Century massive breasts had been the image of each erotica and productiveness. This was an age of sensuality, wealth and energy, particularly in Europe, which was thriving on the success of its rising commerce business. Within the 19^th Century in America, feminine slaves had been displayed naked breasted as they had been put up for public sale. Males judged their price by the dimensions and firmness of their breasts.

It needs to be famous that in the present day breasts are a lot much less sexualized in different non-Western cultures reminiscent of sure components of Asia and Africa the place breasts will not be hidden below garments or exaggerated with cleavage.  In locations like Bali, Indonesia and a few components of China, girls stroll round with their breasts uncovered whereas they work, and it’s thought of pure, regular–fully void of eroticism. Views on feminine breasts and nakedness range enormously throughout cultures. As an illustration, at one excessive, girls in sure components of the Center East, reminiscent of Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan, are prohibited from revealing any a part of their breasts in public; but, in lots of Western European nations reminiscent of France, Sweden and Holland, girls can parade round topless or completely bare at public seashores.

Regardless of the organic, historic, psychological, or cultural causes for the fascination with breasts are, the problem is much more convoluted by the existence of silicone and saline breasts.  For some males who love to have a look at large breasts, after they discover out that these completely perky double D’s are false, they freak out. So what are the right breasts?  Nearly all of males say their definition of the right breasts is a perky 36D, agency however not too agency, bouncy, not too far aside, lengthy nipples, slight dangle, medium-size areola, not took darkish, and greater than a handful.  (A tall order, even for essentially the most gifted plastic surgeon.)  They need to have the ability to bury their head in gentle, heat flesh that jiggles when it strikes. Different males admit that measurement actually issues and don’t care if the breasts are actual or pretend.  And, there are nonetheless different males who will compromise their measurement fixation if a girl has small breasts however lengthy nipples.

This “greater is healthier” tendency is analogous to Individuals’ obsessions with having a much bigger automotive, a much bigger home and getting paid greater bucks. It’s attainable that a few of this vanity has remodeled right into a societal set of values that greater breasts are the sexiest and most gratifying.  There may be a lot extra to a girl than a pair of breasts, and it could be revolutionary to be appreciated for the complete package deal—different bodily attributes reminiscent of eyes, ft, smile—in addition to interior magnificence and sexuality.

What else is behind this ardour for what’s, let’s face it, finally simply one other physique half?  Breasts have typically been in comparison with many spherical issues that we discover interesting, reminiscent of melons, the solar, moon, pearls. The breast has additionally been used to indicate supremacy, possession, magnificence and energy.  Maybe therein lies the reply—supremacy, magnificence and energy—that which we want so ardently and discover so tough to withstand.  No matter form or measurement breasts a girl has, the result’s all the time the identical when a person is making like to her—a direct hyperlink from the mind to the penis!

 

Bibliography:

Breasts: The Girls’s Perspective on an American Obsession, By Carolyn Latteier, printed by Harrington Park Press, 1998.

Lady: An Intimate Geography By Natalie Angier, printed by Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

“Sexual Historical past Breasts” in www.all-beauty.web, Bustline Design, 1999.