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Today’s Uproar – “Staring at breasts is good for your health”
by Marshall Brain | March 10, 2011
The following video was posted on Tuesday and has since caused something of an uproar: The only problem is that this fake story has been floating around for more than a decade, as explained in this article: Breast Gazing Healthy Watching busty females may indeed be good for a man’s health and add years to [...]
Molly and I often dissect women- and gender-related topics down to their most granular details on Stuff Mom Never Told You. But we also try to maintain a sense of humor while studying and analyzing cultural portrayals of women, and sometimes we’ve just gotta look and laugh at certain slip-ups.
Thanks to Monday’s Boobquake, I’ve had breasts on the brain this week. Specifically, the sexualization of women’s cleavage – not to be confused with men’s “he-vage”‘ – in Western culture. According to Marilyn Yalom’s History of the Breast, women’s fashions favored décolletage throughout the Renaissance, but today it’s far more fraught with innuendo. Tracking down [...]
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