Marc2b
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Then much of our body parts are repurposed constantly... for example... some men are aroused by feet and like to use them to get off... some men like thighs... etc etc etc
Some women get aroused by their ears being played with, some women get aroused by their toes being played with...
There are innumerous erogenous zones on the human body...
True, but I wasn’t talking about breasts so much as an erogenous zone as a sexual signaler to attract male attention… a means of saying “I’m female, so straighten your hair and suck in your gut.”
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there are many places where women's breasts are not eroticized, also... it is not a human universal.
I’m willing to bet that the cultures which do not obsess about breasts the way Western culture does are also cultures that haven’t been saddled (or are breaking away from) the Judeo-Christian notion that nudity is immoral. In other words it is the forbidden fruit syndrome. Even though these cultures may not get bent out of shape over a bare breast that doesn’t mean the men there don’t find them attractive. It just means their eyes don’t pop out of their head every time they see a bare boob. I can attest to this myself. In my younger, more carefree, days a mixed group of friends and me would spend some time at an isolated cabin in the woods where clothing was optional. The first few minutes my eyes would bulge at the sight of those wonderful ta-ta’s. Half an hour later I’m in the lawn chair reading a book. I still though boobs were great, I just no longer had the need to get all the looking in that I could. I’m also willing to bet that if women walked around wearing nothing but gloves we would have magazines and web sites devoted to showing bare handed women (Look at the index finger on that babe! Woo Hoo!).
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As far as the description of the female body, women's lips are also suggestive of sexual reproduction (which is why we wear lipstick), but I do not see you suggesting the multiple "purposes" of lips (Ron can weigh in here )..
No, but just because lips don’t serve a dual purpose (??) doesn’t mean that other parts of our anatomy doesn’t. We use our ears to hear and to keep our balance. The penis is used for urination but that’s not its’ only function. The female breasts is also dual purpose.
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You mistake a secondary sexual characteristic with a sexual organ... men have secondary sexual characteristics, also, like increased body hair, upper body strength, narrow hips, etc etc etc
Again, not so much a sexual organ as a sexual attractor and, even more importantly, a sexual identifier.
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There are lots of places where women historically ran around topless, and in such places breasts were not made a big deal over, nor was nursing.
Again, I think this has more to do with cultural hang-ups (or the lack thereof) than with sexuality.
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I will still say, the PRIMARY purpose of breasts is to feed young. There is only one body characteristic that seems to be universally found to attract men with the female body, and that is the hip to waist ratio... wider hips with a narrow waist has the connotation of fertility, health, and ability to deliver babies.... and men are attracted to that. It does not matter if thinness or heaviness are culturally desirable, the hip to waist ratio that men find most appealing remains the same.
If you want to use the word “primary” rather than the word “real” you won’t get a disagreement from me. But the fact remains that human females alone amongst mammals have developed the large, rounded breast shape that really isn’t needed (and is actually somewhat counter productive) for feeding and the reason for that is not maternal but sexual.
ETA: Thinking about the Forbidden Fruit" syndrome reminded me of the bare leg scene in THIS video.
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