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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.
We’re headed in to a holiday weekend here in the U.S., so if you’re preparing for a trip, why not download our latest podcasts and take them with you? In this post I’ll give you a sneak peek of the kind of conversations you can expect.
On Monday, we presented the episode “Boob Politics: The Cleavage Issue.” One of our Twitter followers has posed the question of whether this will be our most popular episode based on the title, and I have to admit I’m curious to see the numbers for this conversation about how the perception of breasts has changed over time in Western culture.
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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