The Breast Chronicles

The Breast Chronicles

Reshaping breasts on the net.


 
Breasts: natural or sexual selecton? Round, firm breasts may have evolved for a rather different reason than conventionally believed by (surprise - male) scientists. "The obsession with the breast as a sexual object ensured very large gaps in our knowledge of its true function," British researcher Gillian Bentley is convinced — especially, she says, in light of the fact that not all cultures eroticize breasts to the same degree. She suggests that the female breast evolved in this way in order to avoid suffocating nursing infants.