{"id":29728,"date":"2010-10-12T07:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T12:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=29728"},"modified":"2011-05-16T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T18:44:26","slug":"american-breast-fixation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/american-breast-fixation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Breast Fixation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note: This is excerpted\/adapted from Psychology Today’s website from Sept. 25, published on the daily blog of Ed Strong, hardcore leftist and top-shelf pornography curator. I have no idea how I got on his mailing list — but it’s great fun. He posted this today. — efc<\/em><\/p>\n

Americans seem inordinately obsessed with women’s breasts. The beach party flicks of the ’60s idolized the bouncing jugs of Gidget-style surfers. From Playboy to more hard-core stroke mags, giant bosoms dominate America’s Technicolor spreads.<\/p>\n

What other country could found, patronize, and overall accept a restaurant franchise named “Hooters”? The founder of a chain called “Nichons” (the nearest translation available) in France would be viewed as a pathetic juvenile, a joke.<\/p>\n

Cultures more comfortable with their sexuality view breasts as they should be viewed, as an attractive part of the more interesting overall context. Here is a quote from Time<\/em> magazine, in the ’70s, when an Italian publisher booted up a marinara-flavored version of Playboy<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“Reflecting European tastes, Playmen<\/em> does not display the mammary obsession that Playboy<\/em> profitably discerns in Americans.<\/p>\n

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“Says Publisher Tattilo: ‘The U.S. is a matriarchy. I think this is the reason for the American male preference for women with exaggerated, voluminous bosoms, true wet nurses with a reassuring maternal aspect’.”<\/p>\n

Maybe. I think there’s more to it than the fact that American women tend to wear the pants at home.<\/p>\n

The US, when it comes to being comfortable with sex, is closer to Iran than it is to, say, France or Germany.<\/p>\n

A plausible theory for the boob obsession is this: The era when American mass media culture invaded most homes in the US was the same period during which breastfeeding (again in the US) was denigrated as primitive and unsanitary, compared to the “clean, safe, hygienic and modern” alternative of bottles and formula.<\/p>\n

For several generations, American newborns were deprived of the comfort and nutrition of the milk-crammed, rosy, leaking mammaries of their moms. Instead, egged on by TV’s various versions of Dr. [Benjamin] Spock [a famous pediatrics guru of the 1960s], their mothers served them a pasty, pale, sugar-stuffed liquid in a sterilized bottle topped with a cold and plastic nipple.<\/p>\n

Humans for millions of years had been conditioned to seek nurture and dinner at the living teat. No wonder those poor little guys of post-war America, when they grew up, found themselves fetishizing the warm and heaving bosom.<\/p>\n

And so did their girlfriends, in a different way. They became obsessed with having big, creamy breasts, to fondle and admire in the privacy of their bedrooms, to reveal to boyfriends who made it to “second base.”<\/p>\n

When nature didn’t cooperate, they bought push-up bras, or had silicon blisters surgically implanted to make their boobs big, if not necessarily creamy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: This is excerpted\/adapted from Psychology Today’s website from Sept. 25, published on the daily blog of Ed Strong, hardcore leftist and top-shelf pornography curator. I have no idea how I got on his mailing list — but it’s great fun. He posted this today. — efc Americans seem inordinately obsessed with women’s breasts. The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}