Breasts

As a woman who does not wear a bra, one might ask why I'm interested in this art bra exhibit. Ah yes, art is art and some of these nifty bras qualify as art. Just remember sisters, those underwire bras are now suspect for cutting off your circulation and that just might be one cause for breast cancer.

Why I don't wear one? Well, back in the day, I used to draw bras, hundreds of bras for catalogs and ads putting myself through art school. The popular ones back then had cups that were stitched in a circle and I was working with pen and ink. Stitch, stitch by stitch with each row after row after row.

Was looking at a favorite pinup model today named Suzie Q. Her interview mentioned how she retained her nipple sensitivity while going from a B - C size to a D cup. I have discussed breast enhancement / augmentation with lovers before and the issue that gives them pause, besides back issues, clothes fitting, and difficulty with exercise, is loss of nipple sensitivity and scars. Suzie Q is the first I've heard with no visible scarring or loss of nipple sensitivity because they go in through the underarm. Thought I'd put that out there for women who are interested in a larger cup size and keep their nipple eroticism. This sounds like it would make breastfeeding with augmented breasts possible too. Although I admittedly don't know anything specific about that topic.

Invented by a woman and selling like hotcakes in the Netherlands I bring you La Decollette: the anti-wrinkle cleavage bra.  This is for women with real breasts who are 40+ or spent way too much time in the sun.  God, I've spent alot of time on the beach but I'm a B cup so no breast wrinkles here.

You wear it at night and it keeps your breasts apart minimizing the appearance of your breast wrinkles the following day. It does look pretty comfortable as far as bras go. It comes in black or white and inventor Rachel De Boer hopes it will help the millions of women with breast wrinkles (stop laughing)

I caught this on the wires yesterday and hesitated posting it.  I'm just sick of the f*cked up body image issues we foist on young girls. This sculpture depicts a 20cm tall girl with breasts that are five metres high and wide and it's INSTALLED AT A CITY PARK.  Parents are wigging out.  Its been defaced on several occasions - someone even tried to put a giant bra over the sculpture.  

One local mum, called Liang, complained: "The park used to be a great place for families, but now what attracts my son the most is the huge breasts.

This is an amazing video of Salma Hayek breastfeeding an African infant who's mother didn't have her own milk.  So interesting to see a Hollywood celebrity who's breasts have been fetishized using her breasts for their purpose without shame.

Thank you, Marty Klein, for this story covered in your blog Sexual Intelligence.  Yet another teenager has been arrested on felony charges of assaulting other teens' eyes with a deadly weapon-nude pictures of herself.

This Ohio case is particularly smirky because the crime occurred immediately after a County prosecutor visited the kid's high school, warning students about the prison sentences awaiting them if they receive or send sexual images of classmates on their cell phones. In classic teen fashion, the girl apparently took the warning as a dare. Or perhaps she was just really aroused by the law enforcement presentation.

Are they saying that if I give up cappuccino, I could be a full C?  Drinking a lot of coffee reduces the size of many women's breasts, a Swedish researcher finds.

Helena Jernstrom, an oncologist at Lund University in southern Sweden, said that the effect is the result of a gene that about half of women possess, The Local reported.

"Drinking coffee can have a major effect on breast size," she said.

Jernstrom became interested in the subject because of research that has shown that large-breasted women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, while downing at least three cups of coffee a day reduces cancer risk. She decided to look for a correlation directly between drinking coffee and breast size and found one.

Her study tracked 270 women. Jernstrom's results were published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Why does the world hate the A Cup? God, I love a petite woman with small breasts and perky nipples. It's so attractive. Some of us don't prefer big, siliconed-out breasts. And I know I'm not alone!

Keira Knightley has refused to allow any enhancement of her cleavage on publicity photos for her upcoming movie, "The Duchess," Britain's Daily Mail reports.

Studio heads reportedly want to enlarge Knightley's bosom in the photos, but the actress, 23, put her foot down.

"She has insisted that her figure stay in its natural state," an insider said. "She is proud of her body and doesn't want it altered."

I see so many women in the gym that don't have enough support. One woman just gave birth and was working out without even a bra. I wanted to say something but got that look.

Women who wear the wrong kind of bra could be damaging their breasts, researchers have warned. The breast biomechanics team at the University of Portsmouth said poor support could lead to fragile ligaments in the breast being stretched. They said that during exercise, breasts move up to 21cm (8.26inches), up and down, in and out and side to side - but most bras just limit vertical movement.