aften

I'm fascinated by men's fascination of women's breasts.
In my limited observation this fascination is somehow not universal,
because in some remote tribes, they have their women topless all the time
and I don't notice the men ogling.

My own personal taste is that I like them natural. A prime example
would be Monica Bellucci's.

What do you think is the cause of this obsession? Is it genetically innate or
is it something that is influenced by culture?

lostgirl

I'm a girl, and I find breasts attractive, but only if they are natural.

I think that the very fact women have pronounced breasts is because as a species we have selected for them.

JamesB

Good question.

I myself am a 'boob man' so I can assure you that I appreciate breasts (not to objectify women).
As to whether or not it is genetic or sociological - this has been debated for years. Desmon Morris would tell you it is genetic, however, I would tend to argue that there is a synergy between nature and nurture.

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Manic_Skafe

I hate breasts.

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Vigilante

One of the times when I appreciate natural selection more than ever.

Depending on the man, we find several features to be fetish material. I love a round butt, skinny waist and of course boobs that match. Boobs for me though are secondary. I love the hips and ass more. I love strong legs too.

America is so fascinated with boobs because we never see them. It goes along the same thought as the pastor's daughter is the worst. If our society wasn't originally puritanical but rather tribal and half nude, we probably wouldn't care as much, like some european nations, or africans.

So this implies cultural obsessions rather than genetic, although there most likely is a genetic predisposition to this as well. If there wasn't, we wouldn't be shaped as we are. Same with penis size - we are gargantuan compared to the other primates.

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Willravel

Breasts, like child-bearing hips, are a very simple sign of fertility. Genetically, men are designed to want to mate, mate often, and mate with the best female. This is not to say that, as a rule, women with naturally larger chests have superior genetics, only that throughout the history of our species smaller breasts could mean illness or malnutrition. Larger breasts clearly indicate a steady supply of food. There's also a theory about how humans are the only primates to mate face to face and breasts looking like buttocks, but quite frankly that sounds like a load of bonk.

These natural urges lead to breast marketing, which served to reinforce the natural urges with social urges.

Also, they're really soft and covered in sensitive nerve endings. That certainly doesn't hurt.

curiousbear

In Indian temples you will find godess' idols to have well rounded large breasts, narrow waists and wide hips! Well we all think it is matter of figure and beauty. But it is actually like what Willravel says. They are signs of fertility. In Indian religionism fertility is component of Wealth.

I agree in a society where people are nude all the time, the attraction to "any breasts" or "breast itself" will decrease.

But we see faces all the time. But when we see a real pretty, perfect, unique, hot face we still get attracted. So even in a naked world a real well rounded, perky, perfect tit will still attract.

I get attracted to the beautiful faces even when I watch porn. In fact my favourites are the ones with the inviting, teasing or naught face expressions

skizziks

I like breasts, but ONLY if they are real. Small, large, saggy, hanging, pert, don't matter, as long as they are real. Fake ones are an immediate turn off.

And i think they should not be referred to as boobs, tits, hooters, or any of that, its demeaning. They should only be referred to as rosebud tipped vanilla scoops of ecstasy. (chocolate scoops when appropriate)

and how is this NSFW without pictures?

The_Jazz

Why is this thread labeled NSFW? There's nothing here remotely not safe.

I like them in general. I like some fake ones and I dislike some real ones. But I'm almost always much more interested in whoever they're attached to.

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Bear Cub

I sure do like them. Nothing is more attractive than a perfectly shaped boob.

Just to make this thread NSFW:

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Anormalguy

Yes, I like them. Size isn't important, but natural with sensitive nipples is important.

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LMAO Bear

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kramus

I'm a fan . . .

butt I'm also a fan of other points of view.

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I love breasts. Natural breasts.

Fake ones are not for me.

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ASU2003

I don't care too much about breasts. The blonde girl two posts up could have big or small breasts and I would still want her.

Tully Mars

I have a type I like, usually that means real. But I'd much rather deal with fake tits then a fake personality.

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apooka

love them

The_Jazz

A few pictures are fine, but this isn't the Titty Board. Keep it relavent, please.

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noodle

Nope.

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levite

I love 'em! Pretty much all shapes and sizes, although I can't say I care much for fake ones. Real is always better. Small real is better than big fake, or even medium fake. I really love tits, though!!!

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Xerxys

Manic Skafe and noodle, if the both of you didn't have any, breasts, I'd vote for your immediate removal from TFP....... double standard, yes, I know.

I really don't care, fake breasts aren't always due to cosmetic surgery...... well 99% are, but a small percentage just want breasts, like cancer victims or so...... so IMHO

boobies = happy thoughts.

Leto

put me down for loving them.

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piismyname

Boobs are great. Noticeably fake boobs are not. I don't think bigger = better. D's are usually too big for my liking. As for the genetic vs cultural debate, I can't nail down *why* I like them, just that I could easily spend hours looking at them.

Lindy

Though not a man, I can certainly speak on this subject. I spent two and a half very lucrative years as a topless dancer. The clubs I worked most often featured three song “sets” with dancing and stripping through the first two songs, and finally losing the top in the third song, to great whooping, hollering, and applause.
Although there was always applause when the top came off in the third song, you could probably guess the breast size by by the loudness and enthusiasm. If there was enough uproar, the manager might have the girl dance topless to a fourth song. Like an encore at a concert. Song four could bring absolutely incredible tips!
Abandoning any sense of false modesty about my jackpot in the genetic lottery, I was petite, young looking, had a pair of natural 32D breasts. The club owners loved me because of the crowds I could bring in. Club management always wants at least one busty girl in each rotation, because busty girls bring in more drink buying, cover charge paying, dancer tipping customers, which makes for happy owners, bartenders, waitresses, and dancers. With the right amount of tease, the mere possibility of seeing a pair of big ones can turn otherwise normal, intelligent men into panting, drooling idiots.
Of course, the alcohol helps too.
I don’t know if it’s genetics, culture, or social conditioning, but very few men are indifferent to tits. And most like them large. At least up to a point. Personally, I think that Bear Cub's posted photo is just grotesque, and I'd bet that most men would agree.

For the readers out there, here’s a great book on tits, and, in the OP’s words, “men's fascination of women's breasts.” From a large-breasted woman's point of view.
I highly recommend Stacked: A 32DDD Reports from the Front by Susan Seligson. From Amazon, and the other usual places.

Lindy

Hyacinthe

I'm a completely natural 34DD

Do I like my breasts - not always, they make finding tops a pain in the ass, same with bras (found most stores only have things up to a C cup unless you start going for plus sizes or things that my grandmother wouldn't wear they're so ugly) I also hate the fact that so many of my male friends will get hypnotised by them and spend 5 minutes talking to my cleavage. Don't get me wrong I am not one of those girls that dresses up to emphasise it and then gets shirty about it, I more mean if I hope out of the pool when they're over and they're eyes just go straight to my chest or ass.

I also get really tired of the "Yeah baby take off your top!" comments.

That's not accounting for the occasional back pain, shoulder strains, difficulties working out and the occasional moments when you lie on one wrong and for a moment you think you're going to have a heart attack it hurts so much (I imagine it's kindof like sitting on yourself guys)

On the other hand I do love a petite little breast (about B cup size) for aesthetic's sake. I do find them attractive, it's just mine that irritate me. I prefer a full rounded breast rather then little pointy ones personally.

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beetle bailey

i like breasts; i LOVE them when they come with a fit, toned body. i'm not at all enamored of fake ones, although a really fit and functional body mitigates that a bit.

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Jenna

I love breasts. I prefer large and real. I really don't like the fake look.

I pretty much love my boobs. Not going to lie. They're really big, and they'll eventually cause me a lot of back problems... so I'm sure I'll have to get a reduction, but I'm going to love them while I have em'!

special_k_77

I love Boobs, love them, you could say fasinated, I am a boob man. As a real versus fake issue I prefer them to be real or at least look like they could be, I hate too big fake boobs or boobs that you can tell have no business being on a certain girl (what I like to call the cantelope effect, looks like either a half (or whole in some really bad cases) cantelope sitting on an otherwise cute girl). But real boobs can be as big as they come because usually, and I did say usually, they look like they belong. Just my $.02.

Lindy

Hyacinthe, your post reminded me of this this email:

Subject: NEW MUSIC SYSTEM

Apple Computer announced today that it has developed an
implantable computer chip that can store and play high quality music in stereo through women's breasts.
The iTit will cost from $99 to $499 with speaker sizes ranging
from 32AA (which has perfectly flat frequency response) to 40DD (highly noticeable peaks and valleys).
This is considered to be a major social as well as musical
breakthrough because women have always complained about men staring at their breasts instead of listening to them.

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KellyC

LOVE THEM!!! Can't get enough.

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Terrell

They're okay, but they're not usually the first thing I look at in a woman. There are some women whose breasts turn me on, but usually there's something else about her that I already find attractive, such as her face, eyes, hair, hips, legs, & personality. (those are in no particular order btw). Most of the women I have found attractive have had small to medium size breasts, generally big ones don't do much for me unless she has matching hips, a narrow waist, and a very pretty face.

Ohm

I was a breast man, until my wife had kids and breast fed. After the first child, I pretty much lost interest in them.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a nice rack, but the allure just isn't there anymore. This is weird, but now I am a hip man -- especially from the side. Ahhh.

ganon

i love beauty. if a woman is beautiful in mind and spirit, i am very inclined to find her physically attractive. i do like breasts, but the woman who i might be attracted to at first because her breasts are complimentary will lose my attention very quickly if she is not kind and caring.

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Push-Pull

Yeah, for me it's boobs. Prefer them medium to large. Small ones don't quite do it for me. (Not that I'd turn them down.)

Don't know why I like them, it just is. Kinda like the sky is blue. I don't ponder it a whole lot.

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Zeraph

Love em. My favorite part (in the purely physical category). I actually prefer medium over large, or even small over super big. Really big ones just look too saggy to me. I like perky, and medium/big pointy nipples.

crow_daw

I'm a breast man myself also. However, I've noticed a lot of silicone hatin going on in here, and I'm gonna have to deter on that point a bit. One of my ex-girlfriends had fake boobs, and I uh......I dug em. They and I got along rather well. Lotta fun. They sure were.......but I digress. Oh yeah.....breasts are awesome. Fertility, natural selection, genetics, culture........whatever, I just know that I heart them.

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Xerxys

crow_daw, your back ***sloppy, slobbery lick to side of crows face!!!!!***

LoganSnake

What's on his back?

Anyway, breasts, much like everything else can be attractive and can be unattractive. While I have not seen too many breasts that completely repulsed me, some are better than others. Overall, they are nice when aesthetically pleasing to the eye. I'm more of an ass man who prefers small to medium nice, real, round boobs.

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anti fishstick

yes, i love boobs! but i'm bi, so what can you say..

i'm not sure if i have a preference.. i think i like smaller boobs but then i'm also fascinated by bigger boobs.. as long as it's natural, like a lot of people have said

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