# What, exactly, are boobies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 15, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852 "2006-08-15T17:40:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/21 "2006-08-17T06:35:11Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] You forgot being fondled 😛 [/QUOTE] They can also make excellent headrests, as was pointed out in the movie “Milk Money”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jimbeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/858c86/32.png) [@jimbeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbeam)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/22 "2006-08-17T09:28:20Z")
What are boobies? you’re how old? ---
**Author:** ![Eleusis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/23 "2006-08-17T10:43:34Z")
[QUOTE=jimbeam] What are boobies? you’re how old? [/QUOTE] You know, those _thingies_ on girls? hubba hubba (34) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/24 "2006-08-17T11:42:04Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] What is the corresponding structure in men? An undeveloped version of the same? [/QUOTE] Naturally, given the overall subject matter, the Perfect Master has turned his attention to this subsidiary issue: [Why do men have nipples?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_093.html) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/25 "2006-08-17T11:57:44Z")
**Mr BusGuy** writes": > [@](#): > > I know what you-all are doing here, trying to get all science-y about boobies, in the hopes that they lose their fun, bouncy goodness in the minds of red-blooded men. > > It won’t work. Not at all. Consider Richard Dawkins, commenting on Keats’ poem about “Unweaving the Rainbow”: > [@](#): > > Did Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says Dawkins - Newton’s unweaving is the key to much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don’t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution often is more beautiful than the puzzle, uncovering deeper mystery. (The Keats who spoke of “unweaving the rainbow” was a very young man, Dawkins reminds us.) > **[Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by...](https://2think.org/rainbow.shtml)** Just substitute “boobies” for “rainbow” and you’ve got the same thing. Some of us think that understanding the item better improves the experience of the whole. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/26 "2006-08-17T12:42:46Z")
[QUOTE=Eleusis] (34) [/QUOTE] 34 what? B? C? 🙂 Boobies are great. I love mine and their incredible power. Hell, even _I’m_ meserized by curved bouncy cleavage, and I’m a very hetero female. Calling boobies a glandular mass surrounded by fatty tissue might be correct, but don’t try that with your girlfriend or you may get slapped! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852/27 "2006-08-17T16:27:17Z")
[QUOTE=Pazu] Men develop “boobs” (gynecomastia) due to excess estrogen and/or medications. Excess estrogen may result from increased endogenous estrogen precursors (as may occur in cirrhosis and obesity), estrogen-secreting tumors, and estrogenic medications (as may be used to treat prostate cancers). Other medications are also associated with gynecomastia, such as spironolactone, cimetidine, and digitalis. [/QUOTE] So they don’t just gain weight there, without something else being off-balance? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-exactly-are-boobies/368852.md?page=1)