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BOOB TRUTH #1: When a woman is turned on, her nipples typically become hard. But as she nears climax, they disappear. That's because her breasts swell, and the areolae (the soft pads behind her nipples) expand. Once she has climaxed, the areolae quickly shrink, which is a good indicator that she wasn't faking. COROLLARY TO BOOB TRUTH #1: A woman's nipples getting hard doesn't always mean she's turned on. She could be chilly or nervous. BOOB TRUTH #2: Size has nothing to do with sensitivity. COROLLARY TO BOOB TRUTH #2: Women with large breasts are more sensitive to shoulder rubs.
Women have bigger tits than you realize -- the breast tissue extends from the collarbone to the bottom rib and from the breastbone to the back of the armpit. The average unenhanced breast weighs about 10 ounces and measures four inches across and 2.5 inches from the chest wall to the nipple. The average Playmate's bust today is 35 inches, as measured around the back and over the nipples, which is about an inch smaller than in the 1960s. Only about one in 800 women has breasts of exactly the same size, but they're usually close, and many women aren't sure which is larger and even guess wrong until they're measured. One or two percent of women and men have more than two breasts (known as polymastia) and/or nipples (polythelia).
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 254,000 women had their breasts enlarged in 2003, while 113,000 had them reduced. The easiest way to tell if a woman's breasts are natural is if they slide sideways with gravity as she lies on her back. A favorite online parlor game, like the one at playboy.com/breasttest, is to spot the fakes.
A woman has two nipples because, like the horse, cow and elephant, she usually gives birth to one child at a time. Pigs and dogs have litters. The German word for nipple is Brustwarze, or "breast wart." Men have nipples because all fetuses begin as asexual templates. The presence of the Y chromosome causes a testosterone surge that suppresses breast growth. But occasionally, when a boy reaches his teen years, he sprouts....
Many men suffer from gynecomastia, which is a hormonal expansion of the breast tissue, or pseudogynecomastia, which is excess fat. About 14,000 males have breast-reduction surgery each year. Besides puberty, gynecomastia can be triggered by steroid abuse, liver disease, genetic disorders, castration or heavy marijuana use. In the former East Germany, a few convicted rapists were administered trickling estrogen 24 hours a day to curb their aggression. The drugs gave them breasts and rounded hips, which made them look enough like women that they became favorite targets for rape by other prisoners. In 1996 Las Vegas gambler Brian Zembic got 38C implants for a year to win a $100,000 bet. He told writer Michael Konik that he occasionally shaved his tits so he could show them off. Zembic collected the cash but kept his implants; they got him laid. "I don't know if it's a latent lesbian thing or what, but the chicks are nuts for them," he said. He also said he was tired of hearing men talk about women's breasts as if they were separate entities, "like jewelry or a hat or something."
The first modern bra, cobbled together from handkerchiefs, ribbon and cord, debuted in New York high society in 1913. During the 1920s manufacturers added elastic and metal fasteners. In the 1930s they introduced a strapless version and cup sizes. The average size today is said to be 36B or 36C. In Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men, Jamie Goddard suggests that guys be more respectful of the bra. "A lot of women carefully pick out their undergarments to arouse you, so it's disheartening if you rip through them," she says.
The big mistake guys make while handling breasts is playing too rough. Many women put up with your pawing only because it turns you on. Take it easy. Work your way up from her abdomen with caresses. Stroke underneath her nipples. Wet a nipple, then blow on it. Best move: Ask her to show you how she likes her breasts handled, which will turn both of you on. About one percent of women can climax from just having their tits caressed; if you find a woman like this, you'll never have to work too hard.
According to a study of 270 male and female college students, the first impression of a woman with large boobs is that she is stupid, incompetent, immoral and immodest. No one has studied the second impression. A survey of 95 male students found that those who preferred small breasts were more likely to be religious, less likely to drink and smoke and more likely to be depressed. Social scientists have found that men prefer breasts that are larger than women would like to have but that women overestimate the size they think men like. In a study involving 275 men, the average "perfect" breast was 3.84 on a scale of 5, with 1 being an AA cup and 5 being a D. But guys also say they prefer a slim frame, which puts women in a difficult position.
Think you can tell the difference between silicone valleys and natural rock formations? Playboy.com presents our infamous Breast Test to help you sharpen your mammary memory.
Women are the only primates with permanently enlarged breasts (in others, they appear only during lactation). Hypotheses as to why this evolved: (1) to allow an early woman to show a suitor that she eats well enough to have stored excess fat, making her a good candidate to bear and suckle his kids; (2) to bring the nipple to the infant's mouth, since there's no chest hair for the kid to pull itself up with and because it might otherwise be smothered by Mom's chest; (3) to act as a flotation device for the kid while crossing deep rivers; (4) because STDs wiped out the flat-chested women, who appeared not to be lactating and got more action; (5) for no good reason. In her book Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier suggests that permanently enlarged breasts are evolutionarily "arbitrary," i.e., decorative. Men, women and children may be drawn to them, she says, simply because we are naturally attracted to round objects, such as faces or the moon. In his Book of the Breast, Robert Anton Wilson supposes that the double catenary of female breasts "may have unconsciously inspired the engineers who first solved the problems of suspension bridges."
Aside from the fact that you like circles and bridges, what compels you to stare at two mounds of fat hanging from your girlfriend's chest? In The Naked Ape, zoologist Desmond Morris outlines his idea that men love boobs because boobs resemble buttocks. In the jungle a female primate in heat displays her ass to indicate that she's ready for sex. The exposed skin around her anus and vagina swells and changes color. Morris surmises that once women began walking upright, breasts developed as a way for them to arouse bootylicious thoughts without bending over. Biped babes could now catch a male's eye coming or going. The problem with this hypothesis is that men in many cultures aren't obsessed with breasts. In their 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior, anthropologists Clellan Ford and Frank Beach conclude that the most universally admired female trait is plumpness. Less than one quarter of the tribes they surveyed valued large breasts. The website 007b.com, which archives the various sizes and shapes of breasts (including tubular), argues that they are not inherently sexy but simply a sign that a girl has become "capable of feeding children as God intended." It asks, "Is a bull interested in the cow's udder when it wants to mate?"
During the 18th century Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus invented the classification Mammalia ("of the breast," from the Latin mammae, which sounds a lot like "Mama!") to describe the order of higher vertebrates that secrete milk from mammary glands. He could have chosen as a common element our hairy bodies, the structure of our middle ears or our four-chambered hearts, but none is as exciting. The word breasts appeared in Europe in the 11th century as bhreus, "to well or sprout." Tit dates at least to the 16th century but referred then only to the nipple, which is likely from nib, the point of a quill pen. Shakespeare called breasts "chalky cliffs." By the 18th century they had become kettledrums, globes, blubber bags, dumplings and diddies. By the 19th century it was top buttocks, berkeleys, buffers, charlies, nature's founts, panters or toora-looras. More recently -- 1930s: boobies, fried eggs, knobs, knockers, the twins. 1940s: balloons, boobs, maracas, pair. 1950s: cans, jugs, lungs, melons, bazooms, TNT (two nifty tits), gazongas, goonas, snorbs, hooters, wallopies, nay nays, milk bar, shock absorbers. 1960s: baby bumpers, bazookas, funsacks, rack, chabobs, chichibangas, credentials, nice pair of eyes, tremblers. 1970s: honkers, mammaries, bazongas, chalubbies, dangleberries, glands, tit lottery (beauty contest). 1980s: tatas, flight deck, handles, balangas, bazoombas, num-nums, bongos, top set. 1990s: fuck udders, puppies, rib cushions, shoulder boulders, chebs, chest flesh, ditties, fleshy bagpipes, nards, nugs, willets.
Women have bigger tits than you realize -- the breast tissue extends from the collarbone to the bottom rib and from the breastbone to the back of the armpit. The average unenhanced breast weighs about 10 ounces and measures four inches across and 2.5 inches from the chest wall to the nipple. The average Playmate's bust today is 35 inches, as measured around the back and over the nipples, which is about an inch smaller than in the 1960s. Only about one in 800 women has breasts of exactly the same size, but they're usually close, and many women aren't sure which is larger and even guess wrong until they're measured. One or two percent of women and men have more than two breasts (known as polymastia) and/or nipples (polythelia).
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 254,000 women had their breasts enlarged in 2003, while 113,000 had them reduced. The easiest way to tell if a woman's breasts are natural is if they slide sideways with gravity as she lies on her back. A favorite online parlor game, like the one at playboy.com/breasttest, is to spot the fakes.
A woman has two nipples because, like the horse, cow and elephant, she usually gives birth to one child at a time. Pigs and dogs have litters. The German word for nipple is Brustwarze, or "breast wart." Men have nipples because all fetuses begin as asexual templates. The presence of the Y chromosome causes a testosterone surge that suppresses breast growth. But occasionally, when a boy reaches his teen years, he sprouts....
Many men suffer from gynecomastia, which is a hormonal expansion of the breast tissue, or pseudogynecomastia, which is excess fat. About 14,000 males have breast-reduction surgery each year. Besides puberty, gynecomastia can be triggered by steroid abuse, liver disease, genetic disorders, castration or heavy marijuana use. In the former East Germany, a few convicted rapists were administered trickling estrogen 24 hours a day to curb their aggression. The drugs gave them breasts and rounded hips, which made them look enough like women that they became favorite targets for rape by other prisoners. In 1996 Las Vegas gambler Brian Zembic got 38C implants for a year to win a $100,000 bet. He told writer Michael Konik that he occasionally shaved his tits so he could show them off. Zembic collected the cash but kept his implants; they got him laid. "I don't know if it's a latent lesbian thing or what, but the chicks are nuts for them," he said. He also said he was tired of hearing men talk about women's breasts as if they were separate entities, "like jewelry or a hat or something."
The first modern bra, cobbled together from handkerchiefs, ribbon and cord, debuted in New York high society in 1913. During the 1920s manufacturers added elastic and metal fasteners. In the 1930s they introduced a strapless version and cup sizes. The average size today is said to be 36B or 36C. In Lesbian Sex Secrets for Men, Jamie Goddard suggests that guys be more respectful of the bra. "A lot of women carefully pick out their undergarments to arouse you, so it's disheartening if you rip through them," she says.
The big mistake guys make while handling breasts is playing too rough. Many women put up with your pawing only because it turns you on. Take it easy. Work your way up from her abdomen with caresses. Stroke underneath her nipples. Wet a nipple, then blow on it. Best move: Ask her to show you how she likes her breasts handled, which will turn both of you on. About one percent of women can climax from just having their tits caressed; if you find a woman like this, you'll never have to work too hard.
According to a study of 270 male and female college students, the first impression of a woman with large boobs is that she is stupid, incompetent, immoral and immodest. No one has studied the second impression. A survey of 95 male students found that those who preferred small breasts were more likely to be religious, less likely to drink and smoke and more likely to be depressed. Social scientists have found that men prefer breasts that are larger than women would like to have but that women overestimate the size they think men like. In a study involving 275 men, the average "perfect" breast was 3.84 on a scale of 5, with 1 being an AA cup and 5 being a D. But guys also say they prefer a slim frame, which puts women in a difficult position.
Think you can tell the difference between silicone valleys and natural rock formations? Playboy.com presents our infamous Breast Test to help you sharpen your mammary memory.
Women are the only primates with permanently enlarged breasts (in others, they appear only during lactation). Hypotheses as to why this evolved: (1) to allow an early woman to show a suitor that she eats well enough to have stored excess fat, making her a good candidate to bear and suckle his kids; (2) to bring the nipple to the infant's mouth, since there's no chest hair for the kid to pull itself up with and because it might otherwise be smothered by Mom's chest; (3) to act as a flotation device for the kid while crossing deep rivers; (4) because STDs wiped out the flat-chested women, who appeared not to be lactating and got more action; (5) for no good reason. In her book Woman: An Intimate Geography, Natalie Angier suggests that permanently enlarged breasts are evolutionarily "arbitrary," i.e., decorative. Men, women and children may be drawn to them, she says, simply because we are naturally attracted to round objects, such as faces or the moon. In his Book of the Breast, Robert Anton Wilson supposes that the double catenary of female breasts "may have unconsciously inspired the engineers who first solved the problems of suspension bridges."
Aside from the fact that you like circles and bridges, what compels you to stare at two mounds of fat hanging from your girlfriend's chest? In The Naked Ape, zoologist Desmond Morris outlines his idea that men love boobs because boobs resemble buttocks. In the jungle a female primate in heat displays her ass to indicate that she's ready for sex. The exposed skin around her anus and vagina swells and changes color. Morris surmises that once women began walking upright, breasts developed as a way for them to arouse bootylicious thoughts without bending over. Biped babes could now catch a male's eye coming or going. The problem with this hypothesis is that men in many cultures aren't obsessed with breasts. In their 1951 book Patterns of Sexual Behavior, anthropologists Clellan Ford and Frank Beach conclude that the most universally admired female trait is plumpness. Less than one quarter of the tribes they surveyed valued large breasts. The website 007b.com, which archives the various sizes and shapes of breasts (including tubular), argues that they are not inherently sexy but simply a sign that a girl has become "capable of feeding children as God intended." It asks, "Is a bull interested in the cow's udder when it wants to mate?"
During the 18th century Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus invented the classification Mammalia ("of the breast," from the Latin mammae, which sounds a lot like "Mama!") to describe the order of higher vertebrates that secrete milk from mammary glands. He could have chosen as a common element our hairy bodies, the structure of our middle ears or our four-chambered hearts, but none is as exciting. The word breasts appeared in Europe in the 11th century as bhreus, "to well or sprout." Tit dates at least to the 16th century but referred then only to the nipple, which is likely from nib, the point of a quill pen. Shakespeare called breasts "chalky cliffs." By the 18th century they had become kettledrums, globes, blubber bags, dumplings and diddies. By the 19th century it was top buttocks, berkeleys, buffers, charlies, nature's founts, panters or toora-looras. More recently -- 1930s: boobies, fried eggs, knobs, knockers, the twins. 1940s: balloons, boobs, maracas, pair. 1950s: cans, jugs, lungs, melons, bazooms, TNT (two nifty tits), gazongas, goonas, snorbs, hooters, wallopies, nay nays, milk bar, shock absorbers. 1960s: baby bumpers, bazookas, funsacks, rack, chabobs, chichibangas, credentials, nice pair of eyes, tremblers. 1970s: honkers, mammaries, bazongas, chalubbies, dangleberries, glands, tit lottery (beauty contest). 1980s: tatas, flight deck, handles, balangas, bazoombas, num-nums, bongos, top set. 1990s: fuck udders, puppies, rib cushions, shoulder boulders, chebs, chest flesh, ditties, fleshy bagpipes, nards, nugs, willets.
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