h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Are bras really necessary. After all nature or evolution managed without them. Should ladies just let them dangle as nature intended.

Flouncing breasts would probably be enough of a discomfort to my wife that she'd have to stop her workouts... the butt would then suffer for the breasts.

Padded bras, on the other hand, should be outlawed for the same reasons that advertisers are forbidden to make false claims about their products.

They are somewhat necessary for women of a certain size... I know I wouldn't want to "free-boob" it too often. Too painful.

We could easily have evoloved to have breasts that hurt without bras, after all imagine in the depths of Africa millions of years ago, a woman who was in slight pain from her breats, wouldn't die any earlier. In fact, because the breats made her more attractive to men she was likely to have more offspring, hence more women would arrive, with the genes for larger breasts..

It's hard to say what was found to be more attractive in prehistoric cultures, although we can probably get a good idea by asking jungle tribesmen of Africa, South America, and Indonesia. They're culturally as close to primitive man as we're going to get.

But in times covered by written history, big breasts as a male preference are a very recent phenomenon... 20th century, to be more precise. Pleasantly plump women with small, pert breasts were the rage from Classical Greece until the Roaring '20's. In the '20's we were presented with the waifish flapper look, with small breasts still the goal, but skinny women seemed to emerge as preferable over plump. It was probably Hollywood that replaced the waif with the voluptuous figure with large breasts and wide hips as the height of beauty.

Nowadays our culture displays a caricature figure as ideal... skinny legs and no butt, and absurdly bulbous boobs.

Incidentally, those ancient tribesmen would probably go for small, pert breasts. They're a sign of virginity, since women who have born children acquire breasts that have grown much more and sag quite low. As I understand such things, bras help minimize the sag effect. They're a mammary anti-gravity device.

Many women I have known need bras in order to participate in strenuous activity. Some wouldn't be caught dead in them. It's really the woman's choice, don't you think? I believe we are being more than a little presumtive.

*finds it amusing that she is the only woman to have posted on this forum*

*wanders in with her 38DD's*

Only a bloke could ask this one.

Ligaments are involved here. Muscles do not hold breastage up, ligaments do. Ligaments stretch, but do not stretch back.

Does anyone like stretchy droopy breastage? No one I know!!!!!!!! Mine are staying packed in because I want to have relatively nice one's when I get older. When I have a man to keep happy and all...

Not to mention the whole back pain thing, and that mine, when unleashed are dangerous in their own right!!!

I'll start wearing a bra when a female..(I'm assuming a male invented the bra)..invents a 'contraption'..that pulls up mens' 'dangly bits' into an unnatural position....

Emmily

You don't wear a bra?

They already have, it's called a jock strap. And we even have metal ones for sports!

Nope..not for about 15 yrs..it's great....

Don't knock what you haven't tried....

Emmily

Nah..that's not counted cl zoomer..it has to be everyday wear..that your..*expected* to wear....

Emmily

I don't mean to be personal or ask for any specifics, but do you not use a bra because you are a smaller size?

Well, unless they bring back codpieces....

Sorry. YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!!!!!!

I could never go without a bra. In bed, yes. But on a day to day basis? YUCK!!

Unless you have a small chest?

Gosh. A million simulposts!

Already asked, but I wish I had waited for another female to ask instead.

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