...Just sayin'...

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

As if we could.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

There are societies where breasts are completely non-sexual.

Jus sayin'.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

That sounds kind of depressing, but
we must not be talking of the modern world.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

I'm sure we would get along just fine if breasts were de-sexualized. Have you ever heard of "bubble-porn"? The imagination is what really does it for us, as humans, IMO.

(and the socieities I spoke of are modern, although perhaps not, modern in the sense of smartphones and PC's)

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but I have thought that
imagination needs some real food,
a spark to catch fire.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

This is not a pipe.

And while one must have a concept to work from, one need not be in touch with something "really-real"
Just think of hot cartoon characters

[blackdwarv.livejournal.com]

There is a couple of schools of thought that breasts are the human equivalent of the isichial swelling (and sometimes colors...) that many other primates have to show when they are in estrous. Not convenient to upright walkers, so instead a different display was selected for.

If that is the case, then breasts will always be sexualized. We can make them much less of a big deal, however, or sexual when the time is right...

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

"If that is the case, then breasts will always be sexualized"

Well, then, I think that's not the case, since breasts are not always sexualized.

As I said, some societies have them non-sexual at all.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Is there a society where they are non-sexualised all the time? I know in plenty of cultures it's no big thing for women to not cover their breasts (it seems to be the norm in warm, nomadic cultures), but the ones I know enough to know about there's still a sexual element to them. But that's also wrapped up in the whole fertility element. Sex and breasts are both linked to reproduction, so there's a sexual element to breasts from that. The big difference with our culture is that we've managed to de-link sex from reproduction so the relationship between sex-reproduction-breasts has been broken, which makes everything much more confusing.

Just interested if you know anything specifically, I'm not trying to call bullshit or anything, I study anthropology for fun.