New Theory on Why Men Love Breasts - updated to include link

[ashling]

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http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html

Men are programmed to like breasts,
but it isn't for the reasons scientists
once thought.
CREDIT: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported | Gytha

[Aristus]

1. Because they're beautiful.

And usually concealed, which increases their allure.

[leftyohiolib]

3. idk about the concealed thing cause the i-net is full of unconcealed breasts and it hasnt seemed to

slow down to desire to see them

[Aristus]

4. But the fact that unconcealed breasts are often classified as pornography

increases the perception of them as 'forbidden', and therefor, alluring.

[In_The_Wind]

6. Indeed!

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[Aristus]

11. A propos of the posts below:

What is the explanation for guys like me who like female butts just as well?

And don't go to Freud for an answer, either...

[In_The_Wind]

12. I don't need a book to read you.

You are a connoisseur of beauty in all forms.

[Aristus]

13. True...

[In_The_Wind]

16. You love good food, wine, beer, art, music, true friendship ...

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[Aristus]

19. ...and wildlife, travel, a cool Spring morning, going out, staying home, family,

learning, teaching, sharing, surprising, running, standing still, life, the universe, everything...

[In_The_Wind]

20. Can we clone you ...

[Aristus]

23. Sure...

As long as you understand that, like me, every clone will have: a poor short-term memory, a gap between his top two front teeth, a little bulge below it's belly button that I couldn't get rid of even when I worked out hard enough to have abs, a profound hatred for dusting, difficulty with confrontations, a tendency to mock country music and the people who listen to it, a bad habit of biting dead skin off my knuckles, etc...

Your clones will be a complete package...

[In_The_Wind]

26. I'll take all of it, the bad with the good.

Did you expect me to say otherwise.

[Aristus]

27. No. And that was very sweet...

[Locut0s]

37. People should have to take a relationship test based on this Marilyn quote...

How is my partner at his/her worst?

Can I live with that?

If no, you don't deserve each other.

End Thread/

[In_The_Wind]

39. Events in life can make us feel unlovable ...

Many of us are harder on ourselves than we need to be ...

The truth lies somewhere in-between.

We need acceptance for who we truly are as that may not change to any great measure.

[Locut0s]

40. Boy do I need to learn this lesson...

Never learned to like myself much, despite there being quite a lot to like.

[In_The_Wind]

45. It took me a long time to learn ... a lifetime.

I can always find something wrong with myself. Those things don't always turn others away, some of those things bring the ones we need closer. We are our worst critic; and in doing that we often prevent ourselves from finding love.

Don't settle.

[Locut0s]

47. Thank you!...

[ashling]

48. Inquiring minds want to know

do you like pina coladas?

[Aristus]

49. YES!

And getting caught in the rain. But I'm not into health food. I am into champagne...

[Lady Freedom Returns]

51. Humm... where have I read this before? In the personal columns maybe?

[Aristus]

52. We must read the same newspapers...

[BainsBane]

33. Few real ones

[leftyohiolib]

2. care to share the reason

[pokerfan]

8. I googled it

The tldr version: What do toy train sets and breasts have in common? They're both meant to be used by the children, but the dads like to play with them.

Larry Young, a professor of psychiatry at Emory University who studies the neurological basis of complex social behaviors, thinks human evolution has harnessed an ancient neural circuit that originally evolved to strengthen the mother-infant bond during breast-feeding, and now uses this brain circuitry to strengthen the bond between couples as well. The result? Men, like babies, love breasts.

When a woman's nipples are stimulated during breast-feeding, the neurochemical oxytocin, otherwise known as the "love drug," floods her brain, helping to focus her attention and affection on her baby. But research over the past few years has shown that in humans, this circuitry isn't reserved for exclusive use by infants.

http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html

[A Simple Game]

10. Not one mention on how this affects female children who are breast fed. As a male who

is a leg man and leans toward smaller breasts I would like to know how it does affect breast fed female children.

[pokerfan]

17. If I understand his theory correctly

is that children of either sex benefit from the mother's biochemistry that helps creates the mother-child nurturing bond. All that's suggested here is that evolution has apparently used/hijacked that same chemistry to strengthen the bond between straight adult males and their partners. It's not simply saying boys learned to like breasts as an infant. It's just evolution finding a dual purpose for something, if I'm understanding it correctly. I don't know what is implied for same-sex bonds. Is it unique to males once puberty kicks in? Don't know and there's no doubt it's complex as there is certainly more going on than simply chemistry.

ELAINE: I never knew you were so into breasts. I thought you were a leg man.
JERRY: A leg man? Why would I be a leg man? I don't need legs. I have legs.

[pokerfan]

38. If I understand his theory correctly

is that children of either sex benefit from the mother's biochemistry that helps creates the mother-child nurturing bond. All that's suggested here is that evolution has apparently used/hijacked that same chemistry to strengthen the bond between straight adult males and their partners. It's not simply saying boys learned to like breasts as an infant. It's just evolution finding a dual purpose for something, if I'm understanding it correctly. I don't know what is implied for same-sex bonds. Is it unique to males once puberty kicks in? Don't know and no doubt it's complex as there is more going on than just oxytocin.

ELAINE: I never knew you were so into breasts. I thought you were a leg man.
JERRY: A leg man? Why would I be a leg man? I don't need legs. I have legs.

[pokerfan]

42. That's weird...

A double post hours after the first?

[nomorenomore08]

5. Hell, who *needs* a reason?

[pinboy3niner]

7. Wrong link?

It doesn't go where you think it goes.

[olddots]

9. I'm a thigh man

[Kennah]

15. I like the wing

[pokerfan]

18. Save the neck for me, Clark

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. (sigh) I'm always a wingman.

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My career as a wingman has been a long and extremely ignominious one. At my lowest, most humiliating
point, I will STILL swear in court that the whale slipped me a roofie (although I will admit that I'm still
drunk-dialing her 2-3 times a year).
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I am, after all -- your MiddleFingerMOM, so ignominious?... ... ... ... ... ... Look it up.
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[Wounded Bear]

14. I always figured I was bottle fed....

And I'vbe been trying to make up for the loss ever since.

[In_The_Wind]

21. Ha! Like so many men.

[Wounded Bear]

22. One must admit, though....

that breasts do come in so many fascinating and beautiful shapes and sizes.

[In_The_Wind]

24. Yes, they do!

[Aristus]

25. *swoon, thud!*

[Wounded Bear]

29. So strange how....

these days, Marilyn would be considered overweight.

[In_The_Wind]

32. It is so wrong.

[rurallib]

30. I have about 50 years before the internets to make up for

figure I'll be caught up in about 10 years at my present rate.
I'll check back here then.

[Major Nikon]

31. Instinct

[ashling]

34. I wish I had a dog like that

[Lady Freedom Returns]

35. If guys like breasts so much...

then why do the always seem to be watching my backside?!

[In_The_Wind]

41. IMO:

... because it's just as appealing and not as likely to get him slapped.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

43. Not by me...

But Dave has been tempted to punch...

[In_The_Wind]

46. I can relate...............

[Aristus]

50. See my post above, LFR. ^^^

And I'm sorry for staring.

I'll try not to get caught next time...

[Locut0s]

36. I remember a TV program about nature that explained why, evolutionarily, it has to do with butts...

The evolutionary reason given in the program I saw was that women evolved breasts to mimic their butts. No kidding. In the animal world males are almost entirely fixated by female butts. Dogs sniff them, mammals of all kinds display them etc etc.. But when humans started to walk upright the butt was no longer at eye level, so the theory goes that through co-evolution between men and women, women evolved to have larger breasts that mimicked the look of their butts. No other mammal has breasts as large proportionally as humans as far as I know.

[pinboy3niner]

44. Some say Professors Heinie and Tush really hit bottom with that theory