Sexual objectification of breasts
A good discussion I was having with a peer at work (female). She brought it up after a member with obvious breast implants got several stares from males and females in the gym while she jogged on the treadmill.
My peer believes that breast implants ruin a females figure and gives a false sense that she's actually better. And that small breasted women are considered by society as not as sexually attractive as by society's standard on beauty. I somewhat disagreed, but I'm really accepting of any type of breast size.
So how do others (especially other females) feel about this?
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My peer believes that breast implants ruin a females figure and gives a false sense that she's actually better. And that small breasted women are considered by society as not as sexually attractive as by society's standard on beauty. I somewhat disagreed, but I'm really accepting of any type of breast size.
So how do others (especially other females) feel about this?
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I personally wouldn't get implants, but don't think any less or any more of a woman who chooses to do so. A former co-worker got implants, all us girls had fun feeling her up.0
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I try not to care what someone else does with their body in order to feel comfortable with themselves. If someone wants to get implants to feel more confident or even if they think it will help them attract more people, more power to em! I don't think any less of them the same way I don't think any less of someone who dyes their hair to change their appearance.
As for society not viewing them as sexually attractive, I'd have to disagree. As someone who s rather naturally big, I have learned that what others find attractive is completely personal preference. In fact, in my experience, many guys actually find smaller breasts more attractive.0 -
IN. But this thread needs pics.0
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the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!0 -
I personally wouldn't get implants, but don't think any less or any more of a woman who chooses to do so. A former co-worker got implants, all us girls had fun feeling her up.
SEXISM!!! What about your poor male workers? why don't they get to cup a feel?0 -
the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!
Low blow! I feel soo bad for the guy, because if he is gay or not, people are getting all up in his business.0 -
Really, isn't it all about the nip?0
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the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!
all up in his business.
he apparently likes that!!!0 -
As far as breasts, what I see as attractive is their perkiness not their size.
Large or small and perky> large or small and floppy IMO.0 -
You obviously don't need any implants....and B.) I should have been there for that!0
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You obviously don't need any improvement in that department, judging by your pic! :blushing:I personally wouldn't get implants, but don't think any less or any more of a woman who chooses to do so. A former co-worker got implants, all us girls had fun feeling her up.
Wish I had been there for the other part!! Heh heh
I prefer natural myself...even if there is a little...sag from the effects of time.0 -
I couldn't care less if someone gets implants. Am I going to stare? Heck yeah! :laugh: As for women with small breasts not being "sexually attractive" IMO it's all in the eye of the beholder. For someone who likes a big breasted woman then yes, someone with small breasts wouldn't be attractive to them. I've got small boobs and I have yet to come across someone who tells me that they're inadequate and gross.
I personally wouldn't get them because they would ridiculous on someone my size and I don't have a lot of fat in the chest area so it'd end up looking like I have a boob on a boob.
The only time I think implants ruins a female is when they are bad implants; the kind that stand up when they're laying down, the kind that are pushed way up into their face causing them to have permanent cleavage and when the boob is completely butchered by the "doctor" who did the surgery. I have seen plenty of those and it makes me shudder.0 -
A good discussion I was having with a peer at work (female). She brought it up after a member with obvious breast implants got several stares from males and females in the gym while she jogged on the treadmill.
My peer believes that breast implants ruin a females figure and gives a false sense that she's actually better. And that small breasted women are considered by society as not as sexually attractive as by society's standard on beauty. I somewhat disagreed, but I'm really accepting of any type of breast size.
So how do others (especially other females) feel about this?
A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
Was she jogging in something skin tight and so low cut people were waiting for a wardrobe malfunction? That would probably get her stares.
Society does consider bigger breasts to be more beautiful, generally speaking. Go look in lingerie catalogues and tell me how many small breasted women are in there versus big boobed women. Go look in the movies and clothes adverts.
That being said, I think people at the gym who gawk at women are ill-mannered and really should learn how to act before going outside.
If someone wants implants and can afford it then go for it!0 -
Would totally get... But too scared id die on the operating table and then I'd be all sorts of pissed that I was so vain0
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I tend to like small and big boobs.
Makes no dif to me.0 -
Just wanted this topic on my wall.0
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the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!
Low blow! I feel soo bad for the guy, because if he is gay or not, people are getting all up in his business.
I'm so confused. What is going on here?0 -
the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!
all up in his business.
he apparently likes that!!!
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the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!
Low blow! I feel soo bad for the guy, because if he is gay or not, people are getting all up in his business.
I'm so confused. What is going on here?
Google the Packers' QB.0 -
breasts are very personal issue with most women in our society and for most their opinions about their own attractiveness are tied around their boobs. so with that, i really have nothing to say about what another decides to do to feel better about herself or more comfortable in her skin.
for the most part, no matter where you are on the spectrum (unless it's the perfect size C), at some point in time during your life they won't be good enough and you'll hear about from other people (friends/family/strangers/peers) with opinions about your breasts. if their too small then you'll hear about how unfeminine you are, if you're too large then you'll hear about how slutty you are. i think this is one of the things about the female experience that guys just will never understand because even though they have to deal with other guys in locker rooms commenting on their penis size, that's just there. boobs are more visible 24/7 and if you veer off that perfect size c, you'll hear about it.
as for the attractiveness of smaller breasts i really can't speak on that because i just dont know. because of my size, i tend to only meet guys who are into big breasts, but i see tons of women with A & B cups in LTRs same as bigger women, so I guess people appreciate it. OP, is it possible that your friend was projecting her own issues into that "less sexually attractive" comment?0 -
I'd stare.
I think the peer would not do well with implants.
Mine are not large. Good days and bad days. Most bad days are when someone thinks I am prepubescent. I blame society.
(not really, Im not bitter)0 -
More importantly, are there any other ways to objectify them?0
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It is what it is. Our brains make many connections without ever asking our permission first. Humans may never have survived were we not wired, both male and female, to be attracted to breasts. We're born with it and sticks around for life. How we are attracted might change, but the attraction remains. What we do with that attraction, though, is almost entirely up to us. One person might get implants. Another stares incessantly. The feelings may be plutonic or otherwise. Either way we are forever linked to breasts to some degree or another.0
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I wouldn't want implants, but I am scared of surgery more than anything else, so. I think people should do what makes them feel good and other people need to just mind their own business.0
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what a women does with her body is her business and her business alone
I am too blah to go further into it right now honestly0 -
It is what it is. Our brains make many connections without ever asking our permission first. Humans may never have survived were we not wired, both male and female, to be attracted to breasts. We're born with it and sticks around for life. How we are attracted might change, but the attraction remains. What we do with that attraction, though, is almost entirely up to us. One person might get implants. Another stares incessantly. The feelings may be plutonic or otherwise. Either way we are forever linked to breasts to some degree or another.
Yep. Rationally I dislike implants. But I can't help finding them both eye catching and initially attractive, even if I hate myself for it. :ohwell:0 -
As far as breasts, what I see as attractive is their perkiness not their size.
Large or small and perky> large or small and floppy IMO.
I a hundred percent agree with it, I mean her.0 -
the only people who objectify breasts are the bores who cant get a conversation going and who get divorced after 8 years of marriage and 2 kids and a hefty child support penalty.
the rest of us QB for the Packers!
Low blow! I feel soo bad for the guy, because if he is gay or not, people are getting all up in his business.
I'm so confused. What is going on here?
Google the Packers' QB.
Huh. Interesting. I had no idea that was in the news circulating. I always knew A-Rodg was in a romantic relationship with himself but didn't know that extended to other men.
It looks like he spoke out earlier this week and said he really really likes women.0 -
I totally agree, OP. I think shaming women for breast implants is similar to shaming them for being too skinny or too fat. A woman is a woman is a woman. She is whole no matter what size her breasts are (or what they are made out of). I also think this kind of thought process (that breast implants equal bad or shameful sexualization of a body part) is problematic because breast implants are not only for women who want to enlarge their breasts; survivors of breast cancer who elect for a mastectomy with reconstructive surgery are not "ruined" or trying to appear better than others. They just want to feel normal again.0
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