What, exactly, are boobies?

[Raguleader]

@Eleusis

You forgot being fondled

They can also make excellent headrests, as was pointed out in the movie “Milk Money”.

[jimbeam]

What are boobies? you’re how old?

[Eleusis]

@jimbeam

What are boobies? you’re how old?

You know, those thingies on girls?

hubba hubba

(34)

[Northern_Piper]

@gigi

What is the corresponding structure in men? An undeveloped version of the same?

Naturally, given the overall subject matter, the Perfect Master has turned his attention to this subsidiary issue:
Why do men have nipples?

[CalMeacham]

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.)

http://www.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.

[Antigen]

@Eleusis

(34)

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!

[gigi]

@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.

So they don’t just gain weight there, without something else being off-balance?