I wasn't going to include any, since this is way too adult or horn dog an update already, but here's probably the best of the pics, at least in terms of breast shape.  IMHO, of course. I'd say that her nips have been colorized somewhat, to make them so nearly identical to her skin tone; especially as dark as her hair is. She's almost certainly got implants as well, given the size of them and the lack of sag, though it's hard to tell exactly with the demi-cup giving a bit of a boost.  So it's not implants I object to, it's the loss of pretty pokey shape that is so often brought about with the increased implant size.

I apologize for this update, it's sort of going nowhere.  I'm tired though, and it's late, so I'll just go to bed now before I start a follow-up article on proper labia dimensions.

September 20, 2002

A new photo for today is the amusingly-proportioned Miss America.  Miss Arkansas won the swimsuit contest, and there are two pretty obvious reasons why.  My first look at this I just laughed and sent it to a girl for her to laugh.  She pointed out the hook nose on the poor woman, and I must admit that I had only glanced at her face, what with my attention focused elsewhere.  On a second look, the woman's been beat with an ugly stick, and looks like she's got Tammy Faye doing her make up.  I bet she's not made eye-contact with a man since she was 14.  There were three rounds of the swimsuit competition, and three ugly suits.  Examples of each are on the page.

September 3, 2002

Interesting article about bras.  Yes, boobie-holders.  Some quotes.

Seven in 10 women in the United States, in fact, are wearing the wrong size bra, according to Bali.

...the majority of women are still strutting around wearing ill-fitting cups, bands that ride up, and straps and underwires that dig in, says bra maker Bali, the brand that introduced "Wonderbra," and is a unit of food and consumer goods maker Sara Lee.

The bra maker claims that a good-fitting bra is critical to a woman's comfort. The average "B" cup woman, for instance, is carrying 5 to 7 pounds in her breasts, while the average "D" cup is toting around 15 to 23 pounds.

Jubbiles!  Sorry, just had to interject there.

When conducting a fitting, Bali's fitter Wise says she looks for a number of telltale signs: Breast tissue should not spill out of the cups at the top or on the sides. The underwire should not dig in. And, the middle cushion, the area between the two cups, should tack neatly against the breast bone, not pull away.

For full support, the breasts should be aligned in the middle between your elbow and your shoulder, Wise says.

One of the biggest mistakes women make is using a bra's straps to provide support. Straps, Wise says, are simply there to help shape the cup of the bra. It is the back and side band that is actually designed for support.

The article makes no mention whatsoever of implants, breast lifts, or other such things, oddly enough. Nor any option for men to pay for admission to one of these "fittings".

August 28, 2002

Boobies.

What the hell is with those things, and the reaction to them from people?  Women obsess over them, their own and those of other women.  I don't mean lesbians who might harbor some sexual attraction to them, I mean just your average hetero by default female.  The worry about framing her puppies, how much they'll poke out, if the nipples will be visible, if she should do a push up or just go for comfortable support, and all of that.  I'm not blaming them or congratulating them, I'm just pondering.

But it's men, obviously, who are the real obsessers.

I've never been a "boob man".  I notice a nice pair, and if a woman is dressed it's obviously one of the main things you notice if they are prominent, but generally speaking they aren't a major preoccupation of mine.  I notice face, hair, butt, overall fitness, then breasts.  If I'm checking a girl out, that is.  And I generally only notice "them" if they are excessively large or small, or on display in a tank top or the like.

I seem to be in the minority in my lack of boobie-obsession though, given comments from other men.  That guy in Rubio's I wrote about yesterday, for example.

I mentioned Mimi Rogers above, and she's a good example.  I find her naked to be actually frightening.  Almost horrifying.  Click this for a link to what I mean. Or don't; you can just get a pair of flesh-colored plastic bags, put an orange in each, and tape them to your chest.

Overly large boobies always repulse me, and hers are especially awful, since they aren't fake.  Fake ones at least stand up and look somewhat like boobies are supposed to look, in terms of shape and tautness.  Hers are just these huge saggy hot water bottles, and not only do I not want to be see or be near them, I want them to not actually exist.

I wouldn't bring her up, but for the fact that lots of guys love that.  Tom Cruise was married to her, and I've seen her specifically mentioned numerous times in terms of some guy's favorite model/actress.  She was in the first Austin Powers movie and looked pretty good in a leather body suit, but that was with much support.  She took that off it would look like someone letting the air out of a pair of balloons.  The woman is reasonable pretty and has a decent body, but obviously her big selling point is up front.

So what is it about boobies that men so worship them, even when they (the boobies) are so far out of proper proportion?  Tons of strippers have watermelon-sized implants, and find guys who like that.

My long-time theory is that it's an Oedipus condition.  Not the literal Freudian theory, which has been pretty well discredited by now, but that the boobies are fixated upon at an infantile age.  After all, what do they look like to the baby then?  They are enormous, milk-swollen, bigger than the infant's entire head.  Some men retain this subconsciously and it becomes sexualized once they go through puberty and see what makes girls different, and then they fixate on that as adults.

I don't think it's really this in every case; I doubt there's 100% overlap between breast-feeding vs. bottle-feeding and large breast obsession in adult men, and I'm pretty damn sure no one has ever done a large research project on it.  Then again it's possible, given the sort of stuff psych majors have to come up with for their senior projects.

I'd also say that boobie obsession is an infantile thing, or at least juvenile.  When boys and girls hit puberty, what do boys first notice about girls?  Bigger breasts, of course.  At 12 or 13 the average boy has only the vaguest idea of female genitalia, but he certainly notices breasts on women all of a sudden, and notices them appearing on girls his age as well.  Some guys get hung up on this first sexual imagery and never get entirely over it.  Sure they like the rest of a woman, ass and panty hamster, and all, but their first erotic fixation remains.

How that ties into them liking really large boobies is unexplained.  Do most men who like boobies best (of all the parts of a woman) like really big ones?  I have no answer for that.  Clearly a survey needs to be done!

Let me know how it goes.

The opposite type of man should probably be examined as well, if you could find enough of them.  I'm one, I guess. I notice breasts, but they aren't at all my prime fixation.  When I see nude pictures that's not what I look at, and if boobies are all that's in the picture, I don't really see any point in looking at it.  Numerous magazines sell millions of copies by showing (Playboy) or nearly showing (Maxim, FHM, Gear) boobies, lots of internet sites (UK tabloids) show just those and are very popular, and I don't understand why.  I'll glance at the pictures, and if the woman is especially beautiful I'll look at more than one, but generally my reaction is, "They're just tits?"

As far as I know I was breast fed, and I remember being enraptured by boobies when I was about 12, and finding the other parts of a woman rather mysterious and somewhat unpleasant (when I'd get a rare look at a Penthouse, rather than the much tamer "breasts and fur bikini" style Playboy photo).  The question, if there is one, is how I went from that stage, to relative indifference to visual depictions of boobies later in life.  Especially when compared to guys who have the breast obsessed impulses.

All examples here have been in terms of looking, either at photos or "can't touch" situations like a stripper.

I'm not talking or even really thinking about what guys might like in actual sexual practice, like with a real live girl.  Once there is vagina available I assume virtually every hetero man wants to copulate.  Probably some men who are the most breast obsessed would prefer to just play with the boobies, and probably just look at them while actually humping away, but that's a bit more than I'm prepared to visualize or discuss right here, right now.  I also have zero facts or stats or figures to back it up, and it's a bit too serious for my usual generalizations.