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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Big Breasts
Message-ID: <189@ihu1m.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 21:35:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  7 21:35:40 1985
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>>> Laugh if you will, but I recall reading that part of the reason
>>> human males (in general, not "most" or "all" or "99.9%") are
>>> supposedly attracted to the female breast (especially those of
>>> larger size) has to do with (aside from the purported maternal
>>> Freudian complexes) their visual similarity to the buttocks.

> Please note that this is the accepted scientific explaination for the
> mentioned syndrom.  See _The_Naked_Ape_ by Desmond Morris for one
> zoologist's discussion thereof.

The hell it is.  It is neither "THE" nor "accepted" nor "scientific".
It is Morris's introspective fixation.  Indeed, toward the back of "The
Naked Ape", Morris's sweeping generalizations from animal behavior
to human motivation make it clear he spent far too long working (and who
knows what else?) in other-than-human companionship.   Of course, his
obsession with breasts is not half as off-the-wall as his explanation of
bras.  Women wear bras, says D. M., to announce to the public, "I am
not available for copulation, but am nevertheless very attractive."

An alternative explanation for large breasts, detailed in "The Descent
of Woman" (how come I can never remember the author?), is that they
developed, along with long head hair, during a shore-dwelling phase of
human evolution.  Both work well as things a baby can hang on to in the
water with their hands which have that curious grip reflex not found in
apes.
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