# What is it with breasts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 29, 2001, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859 "2001-11-29T04:17:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859/21 "2001-11-29T17:52:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Lao \* > **I also do buy Morris’s hypothesis. Bonobos (pygmy chimpanzees) commons copulate face to face…** And side-to-side, and up and down, and left-to-right, and any other way they can get it. There was a documentary not too long ago featuring these extremely friendly creatures. They rip one off just to say hi. They eat and screw, groom and screw, probably work crossword puzzles and screw…then screw some more. "Dear Reincarnation Gods, If you wouldn’t mind…" ---
**Author:** ![holdenmagroin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@holdenmagroin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/holdenmagroin)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859/22 "2001-11-29T18:38:46Z")
My guess would be that men like boobs because they don’t have any. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859/23 "2001-11-29T19:54:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*Some guys are attracted to butts & those aren’t milk containers. \*\* Actually we are not attracted to butts, so much as the other female equipment in the near vicinity. For some reason it sounds better to say it is the butt we’re attracted to. In refined company we even go so far as to say we are leg men. It’s really all part of a lovely package. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859/24 "2001-11-29T20:08:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by holdenmagroin \* > \*\*My guess would be that men like boobs because they don’t have any. \*\* He-ey! Speak for yourself! It’s taken me years of drinking beer to look this way. ---
**Author:** ![nth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859/25 "2001-11-29T20:20:13Z")
Not sure if all below is correct. I do know that men likes breasts and that even tho some cultures do have women topless, breasts still play a sexual role and do turn men on. Just because women are topless does not mean the men in that society/culture is not turn on. In different times and different cultures, men like different breasts. In today’s world, it seems like the bigger the better. I know two century ago. Most cultures had men liking small to mid-size but not flat. Reason being big breasts were for breast-feeding children and rich women don’t breast feed their children. There was a tv program that documented scientists figuring out what men likes in women. It turns out that the hip to waist ratio needs to be .7 for most men to find the women sexy. Okay, about other animals… I think animals use pheromones a lot more than humans. Breasts seem to be a human thing since I cannot recall other animals having this behavior. One explanation is that men like the touch of breast tissues, so thus some guys like butt, since similar texture. The other thing is that there are many nerve endings on the nipple, so is often used for stimulation. I cannot think of another explanation that seems plausible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-breasts/95859.md?page=1)