# Boobies!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 6, 2001, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206 "2001-12-06T11:17:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/21 "2002-03-11T06:48:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > … the loud voices. Ever dealt with a Filipin **a** accountant? 🙂 Daily. Should be curled up in bed with her right now, sleeping, rather than posting. And she’s an exception to the rule. If I were a religious man, I’d be thanking my deity of choice. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/22 "2002-03-11T07:17:22Z")
Not that I think ethnicity or “Race” has much bearing on such things…but the biggest boobs I have seen have often been on Irish-American guys over 50. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/23 "2002-03-11T07:34:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\ ***handy,** would that be the result of after-market modification? If so, I don’t think LA qualifies… likewise Vegas and Reno… \*\* Other than among professional entertainers, I don’t believe that there’s an extraordinary number of surgically enhanced breasteses in either Vegas or Reno. And I haven’t been to LA very much, but I would guess the % of women that have had breast modification work done is so small as to be almost insignificant. Does anyone have stats on how common boob jobs are in certain US cities? ---
**Author:** ![RaginAzn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@RaginAzn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaginAzn)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/24 "2002-03-11T08:12:57Z")
Well, yeah, the majority of Asian women do have small breasts, but my (kinda) ex-girlfriend (Chinese) has 36C’s. I think a good amount of Korean girls tend to be well-endowed though. (No, it’s not what you’re thinking… it’s just something I kinda picked up on after four years in a school whose student body is roughly 50% Asian (…was it just a coincidence that it was a math/science high school?)) ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/25 "2002-03-11T08:47:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RaginAzn \* > \*\*Well, yeah, the majority of Asian women do have small breasts, but my (kinda) ex-girlfriend (Chinese) has 36C’s. > > I think a good amount of Korean girls tend to be well-endowed though. > > (No, it’s not what you’re thinking… it’s just something I kinda picked up on after four years in a school whose student body is roughly 50% Asian (…was it just a coincidence that it was a math/science high school?)) \*\* I have to respectfully disagree… I have lived in Korea for, um, 6 (?) years now (when the heck did I come here '95? '96?😕 Man! Time flies!), and from personal observation I’d say that most Korean women are fairly flat-chested. Of course there are exceptions, but most of the ones who appear chesty usually look that way because their bodies tend to be so slim and petite… That said, IMHO Korean women **RULE**! (And I’m not just saying that so **Astrogirl** , who is a Korean woman, won’t smack me:p ) ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/26 "2002-03-11T09:58:29Z")
Weight and obesity obviously play a huge factor in breast size. So do you mean (for want of a better word) “base”-breast size, eg how big the woman’s breasts would be if her BMI was in the “normal” range. Or do any sort of breasts count? In which case rich, fat, obesity-riddled Western nations would all be likely contenders. Which would be a socio-economic “racial” group, rather than an ethnico-biological one. [honest plea] Clearly this topic isn’t the most serious that has ever graced the boards. Please don’t anyone take this as fuel for a No Such Thing As Race thread… [/honest plea] ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/27 "2002-03-11T10:01:09Z")
You mean this thread isn’t about blue-footed sea birds? And if anyone knows, whence came the term “booby-hatch” for an insane assylum. Any connection to chestal areas? Hmm?😃 ---
**Author:** ![LiquidLobotomy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@LiquidLobotomy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiquidLobotomy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/28 "2002-03-11T15:17:34Z")
I love boobs. That’s all…🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/29 "2002-03-11T15:37:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > **Asian women, by and large, have small chests. \ but the majority I see aren’t well endowed.** I dunno. I work with a few women from India and that surrounding area, and most of them are pretty ‘well endowed’. ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/30 "2002-03-11T16:13:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LadyDragon \* > \*\*☹ > > Okay. > WHO got Mine?? > I wanna know. \*\* Me, apparently. Want 'em back? Just padding my count…geez, back to December??? Seriously, I think breast size is a combination of heredity and fat intake. Women (and some men) from western cultures with diets higher in red meat and saturated fats tend to have larger breasts. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/31 "2002-03-11T16:40:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > \*\* > Asian women, by and large, have small chests. Yes, there are exceptions to the rule, I’ve known a few, but the majority I see aren’t well endowed. > \*\* I do not think this is correct. I have observed as wide a range of variation in body size and proportion in Asian women as in women of other ethnic groups. I very much doubt that Asian women, on average, have smaller cup sizes than women of other ethnic groups. I could believe that their average bust measurement might perhaps be smaller than the average among Western women, but that would be because many Asian women (due to diet) are smaller overall than Western women. But this is not the same thing as having a chest that is small in proportion to one’s body. It is important to recognize that American cultural preference for large-breasted women is just that, a cultural preference. It is not universal. Women from cultures where this is not the norm will not dress in a way that enhances the apparent size of their breasts the way that many American women do. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/32 "2002-03-11T16:57:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kwyjibo \* > \*\* > > I dunno. > I work with a few women from India and that surrounding area, and most of them are pretty ‘well endowed’. \*\* That’s what Mrs. M steadfastly maintains, as I noted above (back in December!). In her view, European women tend to be ironing boards, while women of India can boast the real womanly figure. In this vein, see Paul Theroux’s novel _Saint Jack_, set in Singapore, where he contrasts the petite bosoms of Chinese women with the buxom figures of Malay women. Having been to Malaysia myself, I can attest to the accuracy of his powers of observation. ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/33 "2002-03-11T17:28:05Z")
Fascinating…one might even say _cough_ “titillating” _cough_…D&R…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dilbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Dilbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dilbert)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/34 "2002-03-11T17:45:41Z")
Seriously, the biggest breasts I see are on women who have just given birth and are not nursing. My poor wife got up to at least a D (maybe larger) 3 days after she gave birth. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/35 "2002-03-11T20:47:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \* > \*\*I don’t think LA qualifies… likewise Vegas and Reno… \*\* I never thought Janet Reno was all that stacked. oh. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/36 "2002-03-11T20:54:52Z")
Hmmm…casual observance: Indian women are stacked. Lot’s of carbs and spices…that’ll do it. I think the real question should be: Which women have the biggest boobs as a percentage of their body weight? Yeah, big tall chicks like Norwegians will crank out C cups with no problem, while a b cup on a petitie asian will look like a rack. I think Indian women and Italian women have the biggest racks versus their body mass. My wifey tells me that black women have a disproportionate number of reductions. - she works in that “field”. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/37 "2002-03-11T21:32:24Z")
Black women? Remember a couple years ago, some bra manufacturer held a search for the world’s biggest bra size? The winner was an African-American lady. Something like 76GGG. Having become a celebrity of sorts thanks to winning first prize, she started her own web site (don’t ask me for the link, please: in the first place I don’t know it anymore, and in the second place it isn’t raw size that attracts me, but rather a pleasing shape—a nicety of form which is lost in the extreme upper ranges of size). ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/38 "2002-03-11T22:01:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Philster \* > \*\*My wifey tells me that black women have a disproportionate number of reductions. - she works in that “field”. \*\* That would be the “Field of Dreams” then? ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/39 "2002-03-11T22:57:00Z")
I have nothing to contribute to the discussion but… ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206/40 "2002-03-11T23:24:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silentgoldfish \* > \*\*So which _race_ … has the opposite? \*\* My guess would be the 100 meter BREAST stroke. 😉 Nice choice of topics! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boobies/97206.md?page=3)