My question today is your opinion as to why we censor female chests but not males?
Both genders have nipples. When they are censored, it tends to be the nipples and maybe a bit of the surrounding skin. Males can walk around in public without a shirt on yet females cannot. If its an issue of breasts in general, where do we determine where the breast actually begins? What constitutes "a breast"? Gender alone? If its an issue of the amount of flesh under the nipple itself, what about males with Gynecomastia (man boobs or 'moobs' as they're known colloquially)? What about females who are completely, for lack of a better word, flat?
Is it because females use their breasts to feed babies?
Or have we, as a society, attached a sexual nature (and therefore a social stigma) to that particular part of the female anatomy? What is it that makes them sexual?
Do we only find breasts to be sexual in nature because we have been conditioned to feel that way?
Thoughts? Comments? Reasoning? Would love to hear any opinions regarding this matter.
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Both genders have nipples. When they are censored, it tends to be the nipples and maybe a bit of the surrounding skin. Males can walk around in public without a shirt on yet females cannot. If its an issue of breasts in general, where do we determine where the breast actually begins? What constitutes "a breast"? Gender alone? If its an issue of the amount of flesh under the nipple itself, what about males with Gynecomastia (man boobs or 'moobs' as they're known colloquially)? What about females who are completely, for lack of a better word, flat?
Is it because females use their breasts to feed babies?
Or have we, as a society, attached a sexual nature (and therefore a social stigma) to that particular part of the female anatomy? What is it that makes them sexual?
Do we only find breasts to be sexual in nature because we have been conditioned to feel that way?
Thoughts? Comments? Reasoning? Would love to hear any opinions regarding this matter.
:)
I do wish they'd censor more pairs of man boobs.
That said, do women find men's chest sexual in the same way the men find women's chests sexual? I think there in may lie the answer.
That said, do women find men's chest sexual in the same way the men find women's chests sexual? I think there in may lie the answer.
No one really wants to see moobs, might make censorship popular again if they targeted those for a while.
I think at least in the US the answer lies in what you said here:
Or have we, as a society, attached a sexual nature (and therefore a social stigma) to that particular part of the female anatomy? What is it that makes them sexual?
Do we only find breasts to be sexual in nature because we have been conditioned to feel that way?
And I think that since men are more visual than girls, then men breasts are not as sexual... And of course the whole male dominated view of world is at fault ?
Or have we, as a society, attached a sexual nature (and therefore a social stigma) to that particular part of the female anatomy? What is it that makes them sexual?
Do we only find breasts to be sexual in nature because we have been conditioned to feel that way?
And I think that since men are more visual than girls, then men breasts are not as sexual... And of course the whole male dominated view of world is at fault ?
Post by Daniel
I do wish they'd censor more pairs of man boobs.
That said, do women find men's chest sexual in the same way the men find women's chests sexual? I think there in may lie the answer.
But why do men find women's chests sexual? What is so sexual about them aside from being the proverbial 'forbidden fruit'?
Perhaps men are drawn to breasts because they aren't in the open; they are appealing because we have made them taboo.
Post by Courtenay
But why do men find women's chests sexual? What is so sexual about them aside from being the proverbial 'forbidden fruit'?
Perhaps men are drawn to breasts because they aren't in the open; they are appealing because we have made them taboo.
Im sure there are tons of studies and articles on that.. I personally can think of a few reasons I find them attractive.. but won't go into detail here..
I would guess that, female breasts give females femininity... and I would guess that part of that is that males' breasts have hairs and females for the most part do not.. so in that sense they are different from our breasts... also, the shape is different from males... etc..
Post by Courtenay
But why do men find women's chests sexual? What is so sexual about them aside from being the proverbial 'forbidden fruit'?
Perhaps men are drawn to breasts because they aren't in the open; they are appealing because we have made them taboo.
If you take the evolutionary psychology standpoint it's because breasts are programmed into a male's brain to be attractive. The theory goes that back when we carried clubs they were the best way to tell if a female was young and 'fertile'. Everyone looked haggard, but breasts which were perky were the best indicator of youth. Hence a desire for larger breasts; small breasts could be deceptive, but a female with large, perky breasts was definitely young.
I just want to qualify that I am playing Devil's to a degree and am using this as a discussion rather than me genuinely disagreeing or questioning because I don't agree. I'm just interested in people's perspective :)
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Hello,
Please be very careful when you are viewing contemporary cultural habits. The simple fact is that breasts are nourishment objects, and are not sexual objects. Something really crazy has happened along the way of in present development of our civilization and I wish it could be as easy as to blame the Greeks for making breast sexual objects within our - or should I say yours - existing human sociocultural psyche, but others outside of the development of the ancient Greek civilization were also contributors to this form of H - E - T - E - R - O - P - H - O - B - I - A. And none of you would want a dissertation to explain this. So I stop here!
To be very honest I was breast fed as well as my sister who was on the opposite nipple --- a real sibling bonding issue --- until I developed another taste just before my fifth year. In Southern Family centered traditions its the child's health requirements which are traditionally understood in which the child stops by some innate sense of timing and change and not the mother saying no.
Everything else mentioned here is just foolish. Thus as I discovered, especially during the Vietnam war era while I was serving in the Army my subsequent selections and attitudes were less anxious when compared to others. Something in which I did not really care about either. More importantly I was generally the first in which women -- at the time and era --- was be pick up by, as then women knew about male roving eyes and what these eyes were looking and seeking out. This was around 1967 - 69 and women were feeling out how to be sexually assertive first within the then unfolding sociocultural revolutions of American youth.
A couple of my army friends ask how I did it. Why I was mostly the first. My answer as well as to those in this forum was the same, I was simply relaxed enough to listen to what they were saying. I foolish'ly told them at the sametime when I see a woman's breast I do not think sex but breakfast.
Why foolish'ly?
Lastly, around the barracks after the night before I went out on a real, hot, hot, hot date someone, generally a friend or at times two or three would mention the word "breakfast" just after lightsout and in moment of comrad'ship we all would laugh.
Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
Please be very careful when you are viewing contemporary cultural habits. The simple fact is that breasts are nourishment objects, and are not sexual objects. Something really crazy has happened along the way of in present development of our civilization and I wish it could be as easy as to blame the Greeks for making breast sexual objects within our - or should I say yours - existing human sociocultural psyche, but others outside of the development of the ancient Greek civilization were also contributors to this form of H - E - T - E - R - O - P - H - O - B - I - A. And none of you would want a dissertation to explain this. So I stop here!
To be very honest I was breast fed as well as my sister who was on the opposite nipple --- a real sibling bonding issue --- until I developed another taste just before my fifth year. In Southern Family centered traditions its the child's health requirements which are traditionally understood in which the child stops by some innate sense of timing and change and not the mother saying no.
Everything else mentioned here is just foolish. Thus as I discovered, especially during the Vietnam war era while I was serving in the Army my subsequent selections and attitudes were less anxious when compared to others. Something in which I did not really care about either. More importantly I was generally the first in which women -- at the time and era --- was be pick up by, as then women knew about male roving eyes and what these eyes were looking and seeking out. This was around 1967 - 69 and women were feeling out how to be sexually assertive first within the then unfolding sociocultural revolutions of American youth.
A couple of my army friends ask how I did it. Why I was mostly the first. My answer as well as to those in this forum was the same, I was simply relaxed enough to listen to what they were saying. I foolish'ly told them at the sametime when I see a woman's breast I do not think sex but breakfast.
Why foolish'ly?
Lastly, around the barracks after the night before I went out on a real, hot, hot, hot date someone, generally a friend or at times two or three would mention the word "breakfast" just after lightsout and in moment of comrad'ship we all would laugh.
Roger M. Christian
Ithaca, New York
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