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Normal Breasts

I found this interesting. Not only did I get to look at boobies, but I was educated.

Covers size issues, breastfeeding, Western culture's taboo.

These are normal breasts shown in a non-sexual manner.

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Martian

Yay boobies!

Really, very few normal women have porn star melon breasts and that is just how it should be, in this man's humble opinion. I love titties of all shapes and sizes! And as this site shows, that covers a lot of ground...

It's very sad to me that so many women are so unhappy with their breasts.

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bobby

saw "My Old Ladies" in that list.....xoxoxoo

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Infinite_Loser

I've seen this before, mainly because I showed it to my ex-girlfriend (Who is constantly complaining about how her breasts look).

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troit

Interesting, I guess...

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noodle

It's somewhat the same as men being self-conscious at times about the size, shape, curve, color of their penis. The only major issue is that breasts are a little more "in your face" on a daily basis.

Mine are about a third to a half of a cup size off each other, but some idiot at the gas station asked me if I'd had a surgery that made them different. That was a female cashier.

I can actually say, "Thanks for the post, Crompsin." What is the world coming to? LOL. Kidding.

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JustJess

I think this is pretty awesome - everyone wants to be "normal", and here's a site dedicated to showing us that we are! I don't look at a lot of porn, nor would I consider them the standard, so I admit to a fair amount of curiosity about whether my personal attributes are normal or not. Now if they just had a similar cooter site...

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Plan9

Don't worry, Fredweena... I'll fuck it up with another "Ladder Theory" reference. Give it time.

Labia Library dot com? Hah.

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Redlemon

There is. In fact, there's a Ladies Lounge thread that links to more than one of them. (I had Lurkette post a link in it for me.) However, it's really hard to search 'vagina' on this board, and I can't figure how to cut the search down...

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Here it is Redlemon. I vaguely remembered this link as well.

It turned up by searching for "labia" in the LL.

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Jinn

This kinda seems like fat people propaganda - like the pages that ask if you've ever seen a "normal" woman. It's a bunch of pictures of heavyset women, claiming they're the norm and bemoaning the fact that "real" women are never shown in the media. There are plenty of "normal" women who aren't obese.

It's the wording that bothers me.. "Have you seen pictures of normal non-sexual breasts?"

What a "normal" breasts? By using the word "normal", they're defeating their own purpose. The fact of the matter is that there is definitely a lot of variation in breasts, and there is no "NORMAL" breast. Furthermore, what's a "sexual" breast vs. a "non-sexual" breast? What's being done to them? There are plenty of pictures of women topless but not touching their breasts. Do those count as "non-sexual"? I have a hard time looking at those pictures because I'm at work, but I didn't see a single set of boobs in there that weren't sagging to greater or lesser degrees. Judging by the number of "amateur" porn pictures with "normal" women without breast implants, there are plenty of women withoutsagging boobs. If thy want to do this to make themselves feel better about their body image, more power to them. My girlfriend's boobs are much nicer than these, and she's "normal."

I just don't think it's fair to start calling obesity "normal." Instead of fixing the body image issues, it just makes the skinny people (skeletor) feel like they're not normal. If we're going to err on the side of body image, I'd much rather we err on the side of skinny than fat.

I don't need pictures of penises to determine if my cock is "normal" or not. It really doesn't matter to me. It's my cock.

I wish more women could take this position with their own anatomy, and stop declaring certain body types "normal" and some "abnormal."

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snowy

Whoa, whoa, JinnKai--there were plenty of pictures of women with small breasts who were quite skinny. I would say the number of obese women featured on the website is probably in line with the number of obese women in society.

One of the things I found incredibly interesting was how many of the women are wrestling with a problem I myself am facing--after losing weight, your breasts get saggy I didn't lose much in the way of cup size, but I lost about four inches off of my band size--38C to 34C. I'm just glad mine didn't get uneven like some do. I wouldn't say having breasts that droop a little when they're naked is a bad thing. But I have been investing in better bras to keep them from possibly sagging more.

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Plan9

Dude, there are plenty of physical fit, non-obese women on there. I see ribs.

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Jenna

I think instead of concentrating on the fact that maybe a few more women on here are obese than others, we should be looking at the point they're trying to make.

All bodies are different and not one type is considered "normal." It's just reaching out to all women and trying to make us feel better about our bodies and ourselves; no matter what weight you are.

analog

I dislike creating labels for anything outside of "healthy" and "unhealthy".

To label these "normal" and to decry the use of "models" in advertising, etc., essentially is saying that women who are beautiful, have what might be considered "nice" breasts, whatever, are "not normal". That's stupid. Of COURSE all people are proportioned differently. That doesn't mean that just because you don't fit the "model" stereotype, there is anything wrong with it. There's nothing wrong with your tits, ass, etc. There is only something wrong if it's the result of unhealthy living you are doing nothing about.

They're saying it's normal to not be "perfect" (as they say). No shit, sherlock. Of course it's normal to not be "perfect". If it was normal to be "perfect", the word "perfect" wouldn't exist. "Perfect", in this case, being what they're decrying in models- whatever that is, this week.

"Healthy" vs. "unhealthy" is a simple matter of whether or not the body represents, literally, a healthy or unhealthy individual, regardless of the shape in which you find it.

I had an ex who used to get shit because she was thin. She wasn't skinny, just thin. She had a thin frame and high metabolism. She was perfectly healthy. She ate well, but kept herself in shape.

Tell me it's not fucked up that someone who has an unhealthy body gets to feel vindicated in giving her a nasty look or comment, because she is thin. The fat culture seems to have given clearly unhealthy and obese people some sort of "right" to give shit to anyone for being less than overweight. Not everyone with a thin physique is anorexic/bulimic.

Jenna

Yeah, it is fucked up. But it's also fucked up that obese people are highly discriminated against too. It's also bad to generalize - a lot of overweight people don't do this. And I've never heard of a fat person giving a thin person a scowl and feeling vindicated. It's mostly out of jealousy.

And how has this turned into a fat debate? You can't even see half of these women's full bodies.

Infinite_Loser

From a biological standpoint, a normal breast is any breast which forms due to a natural occurence (Or, in other words, any breast which hasn't been through augmentation of some sort). The purpose of the site is to show that breasts come in different shapes/sizes and are nothing to be ashamed of. I really don't see what's wrong with it.

Also... How can you tell someone's weight from a picture of their breasts? O_o

Edit: And I would guess a 'non-sexual' breast would be one in which the women isn't in a state of arousal, as the breasts tend to enlarge when aroused. But, hey, I could be wrong >_>

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Psycho Dad

Interesting link. This post could have been well suited for the Sexuality Forum. I could see breast image being more of an issue for women in American (and many other) culture than genital appearance. As was mentioned earlier, breast are more in your face than genitals in our culture.

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Plan9

But they're not innately sexual. They're feeding devices for Homo sapiens offspring.

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analog

If I somehow indicated I thought this was something all overweight people did, that was not intended. Perhaps I didn't phrase something properly which made it seem I was talking about a majority of them. Really, I just meant that it's not like "fat" people are pure victims- they dish it out, too. Very often, this subject is pretty much a one-sided "fat people are picked on and are only ever the victim of discrimination/ridicule".

My last boss was an obese gentleman. He wasn't going to hire a woman (31, I believe) who was very physically fit, saying that "every time we all eat, I'll have to think about her going to throw it up". This was said after her interview. Had I not brought to his attention how unbelievably stupid it was that he said that, she'd not have gotten the job.

Once again, I'm not generalizing- I'm just saying it definitely goes both ways. He felt it was ok to say that. I informed him it was not.

The whole idea of the site is that women should be happy with their bodies because "normal" breasts aren't the breasts of models. The idea of "normal" is stupid. "Model" vs. "normal" is a result of the backlash of "fat culture" against what used to be the "heroine chic" chicks who were disgustingly emaciated and rod-thin.

66% of the US is overweight, and 33% is considered obese; I don't think there can be any contention that there's a "fat culture" reaching out to give people shit who used to give it to them.

To me they are.

Daoust

I think that link is great. A real eye opener. I think breasts get so glamourized, in porn, with the invention of the push up bra, etc, that we forget what they're really like. Their primary function is simply to be milk bags. That's it. They're a functional body part, not just for sex appeal or sexual arousal.

I think many of the visitors to the titties thread would do well to persuse this link.

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Infinite_Loser

No, no and no. Breasts exist for solely aesthetic purposes. That is, breasts developed in size and shape as a means to attract suitable mates (Similiar to how males developed broader shoulders in order to make themselves more appealable to females). The size and shape of a woman's breasts have no bearing on the ability to breast feed.

Jeez... >_>

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Plan9

We're arguing semantics here. Tits exist to feed baby humans. If we hatched from eggs... we wouldn't necessarily need them and thus they wouldn't exist.

This might be a chicken / egg argument as well. While I agree with the logic that shapely breasts instead of gorilla tits are devices of mate attraction... did they evolve that way to market the female or did we decide we like it and it evolved it from selection?

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Jenna

Actually, I think there's a good deal of "real" looking women posted on the titty board. Sure, I may admit that I'm always the one posting big breasts (what can I say? I love them), but there's a pretty wide variety along with amateurs seen on that board.

If I was to post a pornstar who looked extremely fake, I'd get tons of comments about "fake, fake, fake" etc.

Infinite_Loser

Simple answer: It evolved that way to, as you want to put it, 'market the female'. If nature wanted, it could make all women as flat chested as men. The only thing this would change is the way in which males are attracted to females. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Plan9

Nature wants to do things? Hmm. Okay.

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Xerxys

How was that website "non-sexual" ...

Gosh, I'm such a pervert!!

levite

Meh. Far as I can tell, it's a site with pix of boobs. I like boobs. I liked that site. I've never been fixated on whether a girl's boobs are huge or small or round or pointy or whatever-- long as she'll show 'em to me. I don't see what's to fuss about.

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ametc

That site made me feel better about my breasts. I still wish they looked better.. but there are some breasts on that site that I'd hate to have... but the women they belong to seem to accept them and appreciate them no matter how uneven or saggy or stretch mark ridden they are. Nice site.. I think I'll share this with some of my girl friends.

RetroGunslinger

I kinda agree Jinn, but it's a pretty big kinda. I found the site very interesting as far as female psychology goes, and it does make a good point about how we judge peoples' looks. However, the whole site seems to be made to say that "ugly" breasts (and I'm not saying they are all ugly on the site, there were more than a few high quality knockers on there) are normal, while the more perfected breasts mostly associated with the media are some kind of falsehood.

As someone who enjoys a nice pair of sweater puppets after dinner, I must say that most of the breasts I've seen on mostly normal girls have always been more attractive than a good number on that site. So, as far as the comments on normality go and in a vague sense the obesity argument, I agree (shudder) with Jinn.

That said, I do like that the site points out that most of the women on it are normal, which they most certainly are.

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