How do you men feel about women who have had surgery to have them reduced? Do the same self-esteem, etc. issues apply? Would the scars (once fully healed) bother you?
I sincerely don’t know when the SDMB got so classy to not ask, but … nah, I won’t say it, either. I’m sure they are lovely and don’t need photographic proof. 
Boys, I’m pretty sure women don’t find shop talk sexy.
It’s not that most of us don’t give a shit, we just like boobs any way we can get them. Every size has something to recommend it. I personally have not liked the implants I’ve come on contact with because those were harder than natural against my upper arm. OTOH, a woman I saw recently dressed for grocery shopping in a revealing top and I figured she had spent so much on them that the least I could do is give them a lingering glance.
And that brings up another thing: revelation. Whatever a woman’s cup size, a translucent peasant blouse, scoop neckline, hard nipples, or a bit of side boob will get a woman all the male attention she wants, and more.
I’d get over it. I have a pot belly that’s murder on my back, so I already understand their motivations.
Yeah, I’d be fine with it too, I think. “These are hurting my back” is actually a good reason to have work done, as opposed to “I imagine that I have to look like a porn star”, which seems to be the motivation for the implant crowd.
And I have to admit I’d be interested in examining Loni Anderson and Soleil Moon Frye (hey, she’s 37 now) for scars. Roseanne, not so much.
Reduction is more often done for physical comfort reasons. Among women I know I know of more who have reductions than enlargements. I at least do not know that I know of anyone who has had an enlargement and at least four who have had reductions. They are all happy they have done it. None of their spouses seem bothered but I have not asked for much detail.
To the op, there is of course actual research. It seems men care about breasts by virtue of where they look but attractiveness is rated more on relative proportions - hourglass preferred. Big breast with big waist not so much. Medium and large apparently both preferred above small by rating but not by visual attentiveness. But there are cross cultural differences.
FWIW.
Married man so of course I NEVER notice myself. 
Well it is incorrect. Your post certainly did not describe me or a lot of men I know, and yet you were attempting to describe the preference of all men.
That isn’t the question because it’s hard to notice oneself. That’s for other people to do.
I don’t like big butts and I cannot lie. I don’t like big boobs very much either. Something like a B or C cup well shaped is infinitely preferable to me over something that can barely be contained in a standard tube top. Even a well shaped D is pushing it. As mentioned, I can’t stand fat asses either. I would kick Kim Kardashian or J-Lo out of the bed so fast it would make your head spin. It isn’t just unattractive, things like that are just flat out repulsive. I like trim and sporty women with definite feminine features that are not too pronounced.
Large breasts look good with clothing, not so good without.
I was married to a woman for 19 years who constantly talked of having her breasts enlarged. I asked her why. Why would she want to? Breasts serve 2 purposes in my opinion, attracting men and feeding babies. She had opted out of feeding our babies in that manner and she already had a man, me. Immediately after leaving me she had it done. But she wasn’t happy with the man she attracted and started calling me to see if I would take her back.
I think a lot of women do it not to attract men, per se, but rather to feel attractive to men based on what they think men like.
Yeah? I’m not sure I like the insinuation that I am somehow immature, or developmentally stunted, just because I am a man in his forties who still has a penchant for large breasts.
I mean I am in my forties, and I like big boobs, and I am incredibly immature and quite possibly developmentally stunted, but these things are all entirely coincidental.
Large breasts wouldn’t be a turn-off, but they wouldn’t excite me, either.
It’s not that I’m ambivalent; I genuinely prefer small, perky breasts. I’m not sure if this is normal or if there is a particular reason for it.
I like large breasts. I am definitely a breast man, and I will take large natural breasts any day. It’s not that I don’t like smaller breasts, that’s just what I would choose given a choice. I would of course prefer perky breasts, but I accept that large breasts are going to sag more, it’s just the way it is, I still like em.
I dated a woman with no breasts in college, I mean nothing. She wore a bra, but taking it off wasn’t exactly the awe inspiring experience it had been with other women up to that point. She still enjoyed attention in that area, and I was happy to oblige, but it was a different experience.
No i was not, i specifically said most men. Something that is so obviously true that i sincerely do not understand why anyone is arguing the opposite. Of course not all men like bigger breasts, hell i look at butts and feet before i even look at the chest, but to argue that bigger breasts is not the overwhelming preference of most males is simply ridiculous.
For what its worth, that’s not what I said, or at east not what I meant. Just that among the middle school set, there is more of a universal consensus. Or maybe just a lack of any other considerations. Biigger boobs always more attention getting.
Fake boobs are certainly attractive as sweater-fillers or for cleavage. But for someone I would date I prefer real, whether they’re As or Ds.
My stance on the appearence of women has always been, it depends on the woman. I might not like large breasts on one woman but love them on another. Same goes with long legs or red hair or pale or dark skin.
I view each woman in their own presentation. My first girlfriend was half black half french and thus had a very unique look. That may have started me on this trend.
To stay on topic, most of the women I have been involved with were about a 36C. One was a small B cup and my current GF is between a 40D and a 40DD. If I had to choose a woman on breast size alone, I would probably go with the 36C.
However, my current girlfriend will throw on a low cut t shirt to lounge around in the house and I catch myself enjoying the cleavage view quite often. Someone above commented about large breasts ‘being attractive in clothing, but not naked’. I partially agree. 40D in the right shirt/sweater will mesmerize quite a few men. And while I agree that they are more mesmerizing in the clothes, I find them pretty attractive without.
NOTE: They are not implants (the 40D/40DD)
I suspect when a man actually loves the woman breast size doesn’t matter, at 5’7&1/2" tall when we married I weighed 137 lbs. Wore a 32 D bra. within 6 weeks after our first child was born I weighed 115 lbs and bra size was 32 B. He never noticed . Years later I heard someone on TV say that if a woman doesn’t tell a man she is fat he doesn’t notice. A few years ago my uncle gave us some old pictures we had sent him. Hubby looked at one of me and asked “who is that”, when I told him it was me, he said I looked anorexic. Yet he never noticed how thin I was at the time. I was healthy, but simply followed the family pattern of losing weight after the kids were born. Today I am fat , he still says I have a cute butt…after 57 years of marriage. He doesn’t seem to have noticed that the butt is considerably wider than it was!