# How universal is the sexualization of female breasts?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 5, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-universal-is-the-sexualization-of-female-breasts/719347 "2015-05-05T23:46:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-universal-is-the-sexualization-of-female-breasts/719347/21 "2015-05-10T06:18:55Z")

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Back in the 50’s it was the tight sweaters and the “pointy” look.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-universal-is-the-sexualization-of-female-breasts/719347/22 "2015-05-10T10:26:38Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> I’ve seen mentions that in repressed Victorian times, legs were so sexualized – and thus, so repressed – that even table legs and grand piano legs were assiduously kept covered by low-hanging table cloths.

[www.cracked.com 5 ridiculous sex myths from history you probably believe](http://www.cracked.com/article_19575_5-ridiculous-sex-myths-from-history-you-probably-believe.html)  
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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2015, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-universal-is-the-sexualization-of-female-breasts/719347/23 "2015-05-10T12:42:34Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> I’ve seen mentions that in repressed Victorian times, legs were so sexualized – and thus, so repressed – that even table legs and grand piano legs were assiduously kept covered by low-hanging table cloths.

This is true. In fact, my post-Victorian mother-in-law would not use the word “leg” calling them limbs instead. It was mentioned above that Japan didn’t fetishize breasts until recently. I believe that. And Japanese women rarely have prominent breasts. Contrast them with certain other groups, which I will not name.

But have you ever seen the grotesque breasts (and often hips) on many primitive carvings? That’s gotta mean something. I guess the answer is: it varies.

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