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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 11:05 AM
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346. I tend to agree.
Edited on Sun Sep-06-09 11:11 AM by Marr
Our casual acceptance of these types of claims regarding beauty says more about our cultural chauvinism than it says about basic human nature. This study is not only a snapshot of one culture, but a snapshot of a specific *moment in* that culture. Go back just a couple hundred years, and the ideal female form was an ample rear end and apple-sized breasts. These things change-- it's absurd to take the tastes of the moment and assume they apply to all of human history.

I think our modern fixation with large breasts is little more than an unusually widespread fetish, more on par with foot worship than anything else.
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