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They will never not be magical (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world to c/nonpolitical_memes@lemmy.ml

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[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's true that it's not proven. What is true is that human breasts are weird and no one is sure why. The theory I most support is sexual selection because it looks like it'd be good for feeding babies

Many cultures even today don’t “fetishize” breasts

I didn't say fetishize. Sexual selection just means it ihas informed decisions to mate

surely due to the production of milk that is supportive of the best growth for babies

You'd think this but apparently it's not true. This is why I think it's a sexual selection thing. Some stone age dude probably thought the same thing

if your idea of “sexual selection” was correct, wouldn’t every woman have massive tits

Humans are the only animal that have big tiddies when they aren't nursing.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I only used fetishizing because others were saying that. You did not say that. I sort of see what you're saying, but I'm still not on board. Is there any sort of references to support this?

The milk production thing isn't a thing? Maybe not breast size, but nipple size? Apparently that is a limiting factor for proper breast feeding (at least from what I've seen).

While humans are the only species (that I know of) who have the "big tiddys" (and goth GFs at that), if it was really a selective pressure, wouldn't the distribution of breast sizes be much smaller than it is?

I realize my first post was a bit aggressive (sorry, thought you hadn't thought out your opinion as well as you have, my fault), I'm not attacking your opinion, just curious.

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's more like, other animals don't have breasts at all when they aren't lactating. No specific sources to suggest it's sexual selection, I heard it somewhere. I like watching videos about archaeology but it's not my field. Breasts don't really fossilize, so don't think we'll ever know for sure. Idk about nipple size, but yeah too small isn't great.

To clarify, I'm not saying specifically large breasts were selected for but that the fact humans have breasts at all suggests it's at least a secondary sex charactaristic (like beards) and I don't think it benefits fitness in other ways

edit: Probably saying "big tiddies" was not the right way to put that