# What is it with men and breasts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [December 30, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660 "2003-12-30T00:56:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@zephyrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zephyrine)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/41 "2003-12-31T00:06:27Z")
In that case I’d like to declare myself a Penis Woman.
As the possessor of a pair of breasts, I’d like to just thank all the male appreciators of them. While I’m not enthusiastic about men who talk to my breasts, I’m grateful to those who let me get my own way when I flash a bit of cleavage at them.
As for their appeal, I’d hazard a guess that this starts in adolescence, when they are a pretty clear signal that yes, girls ARE different.
Also, they feel nice, and respond to the touch, which I imagine is as gratifying for men as it is for women when certain parts of the male anatomy do the same thing in female hands (and yes, I know men’s genitals aren’t exactly discriminating, but we like to kid ourselves).
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### Author:  [@RAWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RAWDuke)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/42 "2003-12-31T03:17:01Z")
How much longer before somebody starts the thread:
“What is it with women and breasts?”
mmmmmm…
Women and breasts…
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### Author:  [@Call\_me\_Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Call_me_Frank)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/43 "2003-12-31T04:19:58Z")
**Shaggarit** , I think the reason there aren’t a lot of self-declared “Vagina men” is because the female genitalia aren’t readily visible with clothes on. Kind of an “Out of sight, out of mind” thing, I think. Breasts, on the other hand, _stick out_…can’t miss 'em!
And **zephyrine** , it’s been our pleasure! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/44 "2003-12-31T13:00:11Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Call me Frank \*
> \*\ ***Lord Ashtar** may have been implying what I’m about to say by utilizing that Seinfeld quote, so I apologize in advance if you think I’m re-stating something that’s already been said.
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> I think the fascination, such as it is, is at least _partly_ due to the fact that we don’t have them, lol \*\*
Got it in one, **Frank**. 😃
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### Author:  [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/45 "2003-12-31T13:38:57Z")
I still hold to my orginal statement that they are just awesome. To elabarate they’re awesomeness is like the universe, no one has proven how or why. The universe just is. Some think you can gleam the meaning of life from the how and why of the cosmos I think you gleam the meaning of life from breasts. If you will now excuse me I’m going to download porn in my search for enlightenment.
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### Author:  [@MamaHen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MamaHen)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/46 "2003-12-31T16:15:07Z")
I’m a woman who likes breasts on men. Nothing thrills me more than seeing a topless guy with a bit of bounce to him.
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### Author:  [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/47 "2003-12-31T16:34:49Z")
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> \*Originally posted by AnimistDragon \*
> \*\ ***blasphmer** - Ack! My name’s Janelle. That wierded me out a bit, hehe.
> I’m a female, and I like the boobies. Adds to the whole soft curvy bits that women have. Mmmmm. \*\*
Yaaaaa! Whadda you mean? **YOU** freaked me out. I’m in Michigan too. Say…you wouldn’t happen to have moved to Texas for a time during HS, would you?
And \*\* Call me Frank \*\* , though the big V isn’t so readily on display thre are plenty of people obsessed with women’s clothes showing camel toes, much the same as people obsessed with nipple pokies on shirts.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/48 "2003-12-31T17:04:23Z")
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> _Originally posted by Cervaise_ -
> \*\*Mmm. Breasts.
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> Mmmmm.
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> I’m sorry, what was the question again?\*\*
Who cares what the question was? Get back to the breasts!
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Papaveraceae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papaveraceae)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/49 "2003-12-31T18:33:47Z")
Funny. If the supposition that a mans want for breast is connected with wether or not he was breast fed, wouldn’t the same apply for women?
But then if we are dividing that by sexuality, which for this sake let’s say is hard wired, then both bi/straight men and bi/gay women would have that want/attraction for breast according to having been breast fed or not.
If I am correct, during the late forties through the fifties breast feeding went out of style. Infant formulas came out and were considered to be much more nurishing for the infants, along with the increasing popularity of the working woman.
If the link between breast/bottle feeding and attraction to breasts is correct, then people who were born during this time period must be positively obsessed with breasts.
Breastfeeding then regained some popularity during the late sixties through the seventies. Are the people born during those times, specifically those born to more liberal flower children or hippies, less obsessed?
For myself, I was breastfed for a few months and then transferred to bottle.
I’m a bi female, and I love breasts. They are just…hmmm. There are other parts of the female body that I am attracted to, like the face, eyes, ect. Things that to me show something of expressiveness and personality. But there are other parts that have much more to due with pure sexual attractiveness, like breasts, swell of hips, ass, curves of leg, shapeliness of arms.
put it all together and I’m sitting in the corner worshipping from afar. I’m hopeless.
Linky for history of breastfeeding… [http://www.kellymom.com/writings/bf-history.html](http://www.kellymom.com/writings/bf-history.html)
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### Author:  [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/50 "2003-12-31T18:36:38Z")
I’ve had men tell me they like breasts because they are fun to play with, because they’re soft and pliable (I asked this very same question many times). With this reasoning, I can see why men would like real boobs. I don’t understand the attraction to fakies. My real 38DD’s drive me insane. Why would someone pay thousands of dollars for back pain and having their chest talked too?
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### Author:  [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/51 "2003-12-31T18:43:58Z")
Because they’re soft and squishy and perky and nipples taste good and they’re just wonderful!
Personally, I’m more of a hips and thighs kinda guy, and itty bitties are absolutely awesome in my book. I just love em! Anything kinda soft is a wonderful thing.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/52 "2003-12-31T20:07:58Z")
Ours is not to reason why. Ours is but to mmm, breasts.
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> \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \*
> \*\*Anything kinda soft is a wonderful thing. \*\*
They have a pill for that, y’know. 😉
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### Author:  [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/53 "2003-12-31T20:50:37Z")
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> \*Originally posted by geewhiz \*
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> As for the visual aids. Ladies, any takers? At this point I do not see too many hands going up. Sorry \*\*
I dunno 'bout the rest of you ladies, but I’m not showing my lovely 36 Cs to anyone who isn’t properly and immediately available to take advantage of them. \
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> \*Originally posted by blasphmer \*
> \*\*
> though the big V isn’t so readily on display thre are plenty of people obsessed with women’s clothes showing camel toes, much the same as people obsessed with nipple pokies on shirts. \*\*
I don’t _think_ I’ll get in trouble for this. Everybody is fully clothed and all…
Anyway, there’s even a [site](http://www.cameltoe.org/) dedicated to just that, **blasphmer**. And it’s not just women…men have toes too!
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### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/54 "2004-01-01T17:22:14Z")
I don’t know why this male is so attracted to breasts, and especially to large ones. It’s either hardwired or something I learned but don’t remember learning.
And I don’t especially LIKE being so attracted to them. I don’t like having such a strong emotional pull distracting me - I’m not going to play with any of the fantastically appealing breasts I see, and I really don’t want to offend some poor lady who may already get more stares than she wants. I think I do a pretty good job of talking to the eyes and face of somebody with great breasts, but you know what? I’d rather it wasn’t even an issue.
I guess what I’d enjoy most of all would be if everybody that had big beautiful breasts wanted me to play with them, and there wasn’t any reason I shouldn’t. But given that that’s not going to happen, I wish this appreciation I have was something I could just be rid of.
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### Author:  [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/55 "2004-01-01T18:09:24Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Call me Frank \*
> \*\ ***Shaggarit** , I think the reason there aren’t a lot of self-declared “Vagina men” is because the female genitalia aren’t readily visible with clothes on. Kind of an “Out of sight, out of mind” thing, I think. Breasts, on the other hand, _stick out_…can’t miss 'em!
Ahhhh…What about the Camel Toe. Camel toes can be kind of cool…NOT big gaping nasty ones of course. That was the big thing in 9th grade in the late 70s when girls started wearing skin tight designer jeans. Nothing gets a 15 year old horndog all tingly like seeing tight jeans riding up a hot girls crotch. 😃
I’m a vagina man too. Ain’t nothin’ fine-a then a tasty vagina! Haha.
Jon
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/56 "2004-01-01T18:33:21Z")
Breasts are nice; a smile on a woman’s face is nicer, though.
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### Author:  [@blasphmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blasphmer)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/57 "2004-01-01T18:43:06Z")
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> \*Originally posted by nitroglycerine \*
> \*\*
> I’m a vagina man too. Ain’t nothin’ fine-a then a tasty vagina! Haha.
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> Jon \*\*
I’ll never hear the Aunt Jemima jingle with a clean mind again ☹
“Nothing can be fina than the taste of Aunt Jemima in the mor-ning.”
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### Author:  [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/58 "2004-01-01T18:51:03Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Napier \*
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> I guess what I’d enjoy most of all would be if everybody that had big beautiful breasts wanted me to play with them, and there wasn’t any reason I shouldn’t. \*\*
you speak of paradise.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/59 "2004-01-01T20:49:37Z")
**blasphemer** :
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> And **Call me Frank** , though the big V isn’t so readily on display thre are plenty of people obsessed with women’s clothes showing camel toes, much the same as people obsessed with nipple pokies on shirts.
Actually, it isn’t the “camel toe”, it’s the V that does it.
I might like breasts, I don’t know. They kind of get lost in there between the face and the nice little V shape.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it-with-men-and-breasts/221660/60 "2004-01-01T21:29:46Z")
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> \*Originally posted by cmkeller \*
> \*\*RealityChuck:
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> Yes, I recall the British guy saying something to that effect in “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World”
> \*\*
The late, great, Terry-Thomas:
“This American facination with bosoms! I’ll wager you anything you like, if American women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would collapse overnight!”
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