# Curious \[do guys really like bigger breasts?\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 19, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563 "2014-07-19T22:37:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/21 "2014-07-20T03:58:52Z")
Seems to me this is between your sister and her fiancée, and I don’t know that you should get involved.
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### Author:  [@Hector\_St\_Clare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hector_St_Clare)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/22 "2014-07-20T04:00:05Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#):
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> I don’t think bigger = better. The ideal is an hourglass figure with ratio of about 1:0.7 for breasts and hips to waist. 40:28:40 as an example. However small breasts are not nearly as big of an issue as women think. At least I don’t think they are, I don’t know if that is a common attitude.
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> The fact that she feels she has to go into debt and drastically alter her appearance to make someone else happy and is constantly in debt are bigger issues than breast size as far as what makes someone desirable as a mate.
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> Now butts, thats a different story. I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Yes, im on team Mixalot here too.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/23 "2014-07-20T04:01:40Z")
> [@Grumman](#):
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> I like large breasts and small breasts, but I do not like fake breasts.
Would you like them in a house?
Would you, could you, in a blouse?
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### Author:  [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/24 "2014-07-20T04:01:52Z")
The problem with large breasts is that the nerve-endings are further apart – small breasts are much more responsive with less effort.
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### Author:  [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/25 "2014-07-20T04:06:33Z")
I don’t really care and actually am not a fan of really big boobs.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/26 "2014-07-20T04:09:24Z")
It’s gonna turn our head and get our attention 'cuz we is just dumb beasts. But it isn’t going to save a relationship. Every woman is issued a pair (as you may have noticed) and still half of all marriages end in divorce. It has nothing to do with cup size.
May I motorboat you now? Blmblmblmblmb.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/27 "2014-07-20T04:47:21Z")
Up to a certain point. Really big breasts are, I think, a special fetish.
For me, I just need enough to create the form. Bigger body, bigger breasts to complement. It’s similar to the hourglass thing, I think, though maybe not quite to a 0.7 ratio waist to breasts.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/28 "2014-07-20T04:54:57Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> The problem with large breasts is that the nerve-endings are further apart
Cite?
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### Author:  [@Fishtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fishtar)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/29 "2014-07-20T04:55:26Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#):
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> That is awfully hard to believe. Can you elaborate?
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> I assume you mean two months of unpaid leave, right? Even that makes no sense considering the brief recovery time needed.
We get some class of paid extended sick leave. Which you can only use if you are sick, and if you don’t use it, it goes away (you max out after three years or so, and at that point it quits accumulating)
So, a doctors note stating you need time to recover from some surgery is all it takes. And she was out about two months. Brief recovery time needed? Seems kind of a major thing to me. But, perhaps she had the right doctor and was just milking it.
I have thought about the various surgical options of avoiding work, and decided I would much rather get bit by a snake. And then say I needed some months to recover. But I cannot find a snake… Was down in the canyon for hours today, and not a single one.
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/30 "2014-07-20T04:57:11Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> The problem with large breasts is that the nerve-endings are further apart – small breasts are much more responsive with less effort.
Effort?
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### Author:  [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/31 "2014-07-20T05:04:09Z")
No size preference here. I do much prefer real ones though.
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### Author:  [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/32 "2014-07-20T05:55:44Z")
> [@Fishtar](#):
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> Girl at work just had it done. And seems disappointed that I do not care. Unfortunately she still has the personality of a turnip, and now I suspect there are some screws loose as well.
That’s unfortunate. I’m pretty sure they’re not even supposed to use screws.
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### Author:  [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/33 "2014-07-20T06:19:32Z")
Nothing empowers women to stop being obsessed with their bodies like putting silicone implants into their breasts.
A typical feminist double standard.
On topic, there is too small but that is only when it’s virtually indistinguishable from the chest.
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/34 "2014-07-20T07:51:55Z")
This guy’s subjective opinion:
- Breast size matters very little, although I personally tend to like them on the small side, if I have to choose.
- Implants are an automatic turn-off for me. If I know a pair of breasts are fake, I lose interest right away, both in the breasts and their owner. It’s like flipping a switch in my head.
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### Author:  [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/35 "2014-07-20T08:19:30Z")
IMHO Small is beautiful. I just imagine what those whoppers are going to look like later in life.
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### Author:  [@Namkcalb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Namkcalb)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/36 "2014-07-20T09:24:59Z")
I don’t have an opinion either way, Implants are a women’s personal choice and can be a healthy way for her to improve how she sees herself.
I would definitely not fault those who get implants to look less prepubescent or to look less masculine.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/37 "2014-07-20T10:14:42Z")
> [@eschereal](#):
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> The problem with large breasts is that the nerve-endings are further apart – small breasts are much more responsive with less effort.
> [@Green\_Bean](#):
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> Cite?
Googling, I can’t find a real cite; it’s apparently a common belief which makes it hard to find anything official.
However it seems plausible. Women’s typically superior sense of touch is also believed to be because they have the same number of nerve endings as men but are on average smaller and more lightly built than men, especially in the hands. For obvious reasons more nerve endings per square inch of skin normally results in higher sensitivity.
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### Author:  [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/38 "2014-07-20T10:22:03Z")
I can see a woman moving up from an A if she felt she looked crappy in a bikini.
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### Author:  [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/39 "2014-07-20T11:51:10Z")
> [@Stringbean](#):
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> Nothing empowers women to stop being obsessed with their bodies like putting silicone implants into their breasts.
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> A typical feminist double standard.
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> On topic, there is too small but that is only when it’s virtually indistinguishable from the chest.
It wasn’t “feminism” that convinced OP’s sister that her male fiancee wanted her to have a boob job. Your sad attempt to claim otherwise is laughable.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curious-do-guys-really-like-bigger-breasts/693563/40 "2014-07-20T12:37:09Z")
All things in moderation. I prefer medium.
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