Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!gadfly 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 Article-I.D.: ihu1m.189 Posted: Mon Jan 7 21:35:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 01:48:05 EST References: <238@decwrl.UUCP> <353@pyuxd.UUCP>, <468@fisher.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 33 -- >>> 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. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 07 Jan 85 [18 Nivose An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7188 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***