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Do you think that if women bared their breasts like in more primitive cultures, it would take away the mystery and "power" they have over men, as well as the influence they have on our lives daily?

Asked by stevenb (3836points) April 17th, 2008 from iPhone

I was watching Survivor tonight and was wondering if todays women were more like other cultures and bared their breasts daily, would it take away the mistique and power that they have over men.

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Mtl_zack's avatar

Its too late to change our mentality. Maybe if this was started around the time of Jesus it would work, but now that person would either get shunned or get raped.

Also, reproductive organs send innate signals to a guys brain that says to get hard andbe horny.

Breefield's avatar

Wait, what channel is survivor? There are topless girls tonight?!?

xxporkxsodaxx's avatar

I would say no because i have been studying the mind and because of its long history in feeding us as a child, it has been subliminally past down through generations of the act. And i agree with zack, when seeing breasts we immediately recall a sexual experience and because of that trigger our brain releases hormones to tell our body to prepare for sex

8lightminutesaway's avatar

No, I think we would get used to it. Granted, it would take a long time, maybe a couple generations, but I think we’d get used to it. Think of how the definition of an attractive person changes over time. Plus can anyone tell me why guys like breasts anyways? I don’t know, I just do. If they were everywhere… well itd be awesome, but after a long time, it might lose its appeal.

St.George's avatar

Many of France’s women bare their breasts on the beaches – all ages, shapes, sizes. When my partner and I were there together on a three-week vacation he said that seeing breasts all the time made them less sexy. This leads me to believe that eventually, through continued exposure, they wouldn’t seem so “powerful” or “mysterious.”

wildflower's avatar

Not just France…..that’s the case across most of Europe, especially the more northern parts, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, etc.

There’s nothing wrong with nudity and I really don’t understand this “power” it’s supposed to have. I don’t think many women would loose self-control at the sight of an exposed penis. Might make them smile or just turn their head, but not go crazy or anything.

Vincentt's avatar

@8lightminutesaway – it’s odd, but I hardly care for breasts at all…

scamp's avatar

I think it would make a difference because without the support of a bra on a regular basis, breasts would droop and flatten like flapjacks. How appealing does that sound to you guys? The mystique would be gone because it would become too common. In the Victorian era it was scandalous for a woman to show her ankles, and except for some people with foot fetishes, they go mostly unnoticed in today’s world.

stevenb's avatar

I was curious how it would also change our idea of a beautiful woman if you took breasts out of the equation.

hearkat's avatar

All it would do is make the sight of breasts more ordinary… but we’d still have our feminine wiles ;)

stevenb's avatar

I do love those feminine wiles!

netspencer's avatar

well maybe it would be different. Ppl do like challenging things to get and wat they don’t have.

netspencer's avatar

LOL. I answered this just b4 swing love404’s question.

susanc's avatar

Hey there, stevenb and everyone else who never even noticed this, women in
“more primitive cultures” do not necessarily bare their breasts. Women who bare
their breasts routinely, e.g. in the tropics (Indonesia, Congo, the Amazon…) do so because: why wear clothes over parts of the body that don’t need protection and are often best kept at the ready for sustaining new life?
And men in these places may like bosoms or not but no, bosoms don’t drive them nuts
or keep them erect. It would be unlivable.

jo_with_no_space's avatar

Perhaps. It is an interesting thought.

I do hate the use of the word “primitive” though. Just because a culture is different to ours in its customs, doesn’t mean those people are less developed than us.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Gadzooks, I believe it would eventually happen. America has gotten over the bikini and even the thong hardly has the shock value it use to have. As @8lightminutesaway say it would take about 3 or more generations.

I would say because without the support of a bra on a regular basis, breasts would droop and flatten like flapjacks. has no real proof to it, I believe it is more a ploy dreamed up by the church and bra manufacturers are happy to exploit to part women of their cash on those Spandex/Lycra contraptions.

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