Do Girls Grow Breasts To Make Them Attractive To Men?

[sp1814]

I'm especially interested to hear from those who have grown breasts in order to attract men.

At what point did you think your boobs were optimally sized?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/childrens-book-girls-breasts-grow-attractive-men-publishers-apology-growing-up-for-boys-usborne-a7919516.html

[sunny-dave]

I await the page on female buttocks with (ahem) interest ...

[KARL]

I believe I once saw something attributed to academics/scientists to the effect that because all adult mammals except humans exhibit growth of the mammaries only in the lead-up to feeding an offspring. Once that is done they always shrink down to little more than the nipples. If the human female had the same pattern then except during lactation her chest would look similar to a man's. This is what leads those who study things like this to believe some sort of purposeful development/evolution has taken place whereby women's mammaries are permanently "swollen". Additionally, it has been postulated that women's buttocks are in some part meant to reflect the bosom - both sides supposedly serving to attract the male.

[Cloverjo]

Well yes, Mikey. Some women do have them out on a platter, so to speak. I find it quite uncomfortable really. At work, they are always in my eyeline and I fear I might grab one by mistake.

[Old_Geezer]

I problem many men have too.

[woofgang]

But surely, by definition evolution has no purpose...it isn't a sentient entity and can't plan.

[Old_Geezer]

A
like I typed >:-(

[ludwig]

I regularly use miracle grow on my ***, because like women's breasts, it's there for two main reasons.
Nothing miraculous has happened yet.

[jim360]

That's a typical evolutionary language thing. It's hard to read a paper or review that doesn't, at some point, imply that evolution is a conscious process. I guess it's clunky to continue saying "such-and-such a feature was selected for due to natural and environmental factors despite itself being a result of random mutations" every time, so people go "bears evolved fur to keep warm".

[Mamyalynne]

Clover if yours are in your eyeline your straps are set too high;-)

[douglas9401]

Swell story, Ludwig.

[Old_Geezer]

Assigning intent is incorrect but it has purpose in the sense that it achieves something. Whatever maximises the number of offspring surviving into adulthood (thus rushing us towards overcrowding) gets passed on.

[Cloverjo]

Not mine, mamya! Mine are kept hidden away. Other women's, I meant. :)

[sunny-dave]

So - you work in *that* sort of establishment then, cloverjo :+)

[jim360]

I also keep mine hidden away -- but in a box. :O

[Mamyalynne]

Keeps the dust off Jim.

[-Talbot-]

Any jobs going at your place, jo?

[woofgang]

Jim, I think that's how an observation of how evolution works changes into a statement that is both stupid and offensive. Not your keeping boobs in a box statement...and btw how I would love to put mine away when I get fed up with them....but the observation that the human race has by and large evolved to find sexual characteristics arousing morphing into a statement that girls have breasts to look attractive.
On re-reading this its not the clearest English I have ever written.

[Old_Geezer]

Jim's not being offensive. Probably just telling the truth.

[woofgang]

OG I wasn't saying that Jim was being offensive...I was saying that if the article had said that the human race had evolved to find sexual characteristics arousing then that would be a statement of observed fact. By phrasing almost the same information as "girls have breasts to make them look attractive" the factual information morphs into a stupid and offensive statement.....I did also say that I didn't feel I had expressed myself well though.....I hope Jim isn't offended by my inept writing.

[jim360]

Not at all, I know what you are trying to say. I don't know if I can say it clearly either.

I think the reason men find breasts attractive anyway varies between men (eg certain men find particular sizes more appealing than others), but it's probably initially that a (reasonably) well-endowed woman would make for a decent milk-providing mother. Same with the hips. Not that I'm an expert in the mechanics of it but I understand that a wider pelvis makes it easier to give birth (relatively speaking, at least...).

Anyway, the book is, at breast, suffering from the same problem. That men find breasts attractive is incidental to their original purpose.