There are times when I get really annoyed with anthropologists/sociologists/sexologists/etc., because they assume everything in life is centered around male needs. Puerile male needs I might add. So I really enjoyed reading this post: Why Do Women Have Breasts, Anyway? It was written by Florence Williams and taken from her study for her book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. I encourage you to click on the link and read the article and visit Ms. Williams site. I will also share some of my favorite passages from the above article.
"The more I thought about it, the less it seemed that sexual and natural selection of the breasts arrived in lockstep. In fact, I became increasingly convinced that breasts have been categorically miscast in modern history.
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"The more I thought about it, the less it seemed that sexual and natural selection of the breasts arrived in lockstep. In fact, I became increasingly convinced that breasts have been categorically miscast in modern history.
I kept thinking as my plane thrummed out over the Pacific, which long ago men and women crossed in rickety dugouts following their human dreams of migration and survival. Then, as for all of our history on this planet, they fell in love or in lust, and everyone who could have children did.
What if instead of men selecting breasts, the breasts selected the men? It’s possible that once upon a time, Early Man loved lots of different specimens of Early Woman, some with no breasts, some with small breasts, some with hairy breasts, whatever. Man, as we all know, is sometimes not that picky. Then, for the reasons described earlier—fat deposition, cranium shape, the development of speech, and the long neck—the women with the enlarged breasts and their infants gradually outlasted the others. That is, after all, the way natural selection works.
Consequently, the people who could talk and sing and have the biggest, best-fed brains were the ones born of women with breasts. It makes perfect sense that we would grow up to appreciate and enjoy breasts, eventually putting pictures of them in eye-tracker machines in universities.
Perhaps, all along, the breasts were calling the shots." - from Why Do Women Have Breasts, Anyway?
So enjoy the read everyone. And do keep in mind that male sexual desire does not control evolution, ok?Perhaps, all along, the breasts were calling the shots." - from Why Do Women Have Breasts, Anyway?
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- Why Do Women Have Breasts, Anyway?
- Florence Williams
- EDIT: I had to add this: 6 Big Boobs Problems
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