Women’s Breasts – Causes of The Obsession

So what is the big deal? Men tend to constantly make a seemingly conscious effort to emphasize the importance of breasts.

Is it really men that are the provokers of the Bigger is Better theory when it comes to female breast size?

Could it be the media that constantly bombard the public with images of how women are supposed to look? When it comes to breasts, there might be deeper evolutionary reasons why larger breasts are not only desired by men, but desired so much by women that they’ll actually physically alter their body to get them.

What’s Happening in the World of Breasts

In society today, often times the fault is placed upon men for the resulting ‘image’ of women in the world today. Everywhere you go, men can be seen, constantly standing there, often times gawking at a pretty woman walking down the street. This isn’t just something that can be seen here or there, this is something that can be seen at the far reaches of the earth and anywhere else that both men and women might inhabit. Often times this leads women to feel like they are being subjected to men – that are viewing them as objects.

The unusual aspect about this is that if women feel like they are being subjected by being stared at by men on a consistent basis – for having things such as large breasts or a nice figure, then why are over 1 million breast enhancement surgeries performed per year? Why do breast enhancement pills fly off the shelves at incredible rates? It’s quite a contradiction that women can feel so subjected, yet desire the image which causes them to feel so subjected!

So is the psychological desire that is instilled so strongly in women the fault of major publications? Everyone is guilty – from movies to magazines, everywhere in the world, the overall essence of a beautiful woman is described as ideally being someone that appears to be young – with a slim figure, and normally they’ll have large breasts as well. Is this wrong of major companies to do? They realize that sex sells and that the leading figure is a woman that has those specific features; however, interestingly enough, they also realize that the majority of the buyers of magazines and many things that feature this ‘beautiful’ woman will be women.

So if women are the majority of buyers, it would make intuitive sense that the entire image of a woman could be changed by simply having a good percentage of women just stop purchasing products that reflected a poor image. But this doesn’t happen – the same public fascination for large breasts and beauty seems to continue to come from both men and women.

Why is This Obsession Happening? – The Science Behind It All

So we’ve established that it’s clear that men have uncontrollable eyes when they get around women. On top of that, we’ve also recognized that men aren’t the only ones at fault in the portrayal of women – meaning that women are also partially to blame as the consumers of products that display women in a sexual light. So the question becomes why are large breasts such a factor in everyday life?

The origins of large breasts and the role they play are most likely due to the nature of evolution, specifically focusing on the hard-wiring of human brains. The branch of evolution, known as ‘sexual selection’ focuses on how our brains evolved (as well as the brains of animals) in regard to our mating behavior. Much of the science within these areas has been focused upon evolutionary psychology as this answers the questions for why we behave in certain and often times contradictory mannerisms.

The essential goal of natural selection (the parent branch to sexual selection) will be to allow the greatest number of successful, fertile offspring. Although there are numerous factors that play a key role in this – we can still break down a couple of key factors that can help us in our search for answers about women’s breasts.

• Sexual Selection Fact 1: Men focus on mating with females that bring the highest chance of fertility. The fact is that females that are the most fertile will be young and will also share physical signs of youth and fertility (fertility is a term that can be interlaced with ‘beauty’ often times for the sake of our argument). Signs of youth will often be signs in the shape of a female’s body, including the features on her face, lack of wrinkles, etc. Another common fertility factor will be large breasts. Most breast enhancement desires will take place after a woman is in a more infertile period in her life.

Clearly this answers the question of why men will consistently stare at women and desire to be with someone that has large breasts – one of the standard criteria hardwired into men’s brains to view youth and thereby used to judge fertility.

In natural selection, the overall theme is that women are ‘selectors’ and that they focus upon men that possess a certain amount of resources; however, if men are the selectors, why does breast enhancement literally make millions of dollars per year?

• Sexual Selection Fact 2: Women do tend to do most of the choosing, constantly rejecting men that come towards them; however, they have a strong desire to attract the top males (meaning in evolutionary terms – the males with resources). These top males will have their choice of women and will want the top women (the women that are most capable of producing fertile offspring). Therefore, the loop will go on and on. Over time the significance will become greater.

Understand that these above explanations are incredibly over simplified versions of your basic evolution course in college; however, they do provide some valuable insight into why our basic human behavior leads to such a desire.

Emotions

The trigger that often times causes women to make the final decision – often times to the point of literally altering their body is the emotional aspect. Although, it might not be a conscious thought, women do, at the end of the day, want to be desired by the opposite sex. Brains become hardwired to this over time and eventually the psyche gets used to this.

As women age, this effect can cause a tremendous emotional impact on their psyche – as they have no intention of aging. This leads often times to the thought of altering their bodies to appear young once again. Since the mind is so adept to finding subtle flaws within the general appearance of people, it is very difficult to alter faces without noticing a change; however, when it comes to breasts, the changes can be made with very little noticeable cosmetic alterations, such as scars, or unnaturalness.

What Can We Learn?

It’s important to draw an understanding from why we behave a certain way, but what can we do with this information? There is one fact that is undeniable – your body will age, eventually there will be a point that every person must come to an acceptance of this fact. Whether it’s done sooner or later (meaning that you make a choice to try to alter your body) is your decision, it’s just important to realize that on an emotional and psychological level, that there should be some form of an acceptance that aging will be the natural process of life.

Altering your body can be a very drastic decision as often times it will have an effect that can soon leave you in a worse state than prior to getting your body altered. If possible, this should be left to more natural remedies, especially focusing on exercise and healthy eating – there are also numerous natural products out there that will help to maintain your youth.