What Gives the Breast Its Shape?

The breast consists of milk ducts and glands, surrounded by fatty tissue that provides its shape and feel. Situated beneath the breast is the pectoralis major muscle or chest muscle. Factors such as pregnancy (when milk glands are temporarily enlarged), rapid weight loss, and the effects of gravity with age combine to stretch the skin, which may cause the breast to droop or sag.

The vast majority of American women are not happy with their breasts - most of them only because the warped media images make them feel they "should" have big and perky breasts.

But normal breasts can be big, small, sagging, asymmetrical
Female breasts come in all kinds of sizes and shapes.

In fact, having asymmetrical boobs, where one is bigger than the other, is very common. Breast size also varies a lot. Some women a flat chest, but even they can breastfeed just fine, which is the function of boobs. Other women have more of a bust, and the mere weight of the breasts can cause them backaches.

According to statistics published in the Journal for Sex Research (vol. 24, pp. 177-183), almost 60% of women have the bra cup size of A or B (A-cup 15%, B-44%, C-28%, D-10%). Of course, the size is not constant but varies with pregnancy, breastfeeding, and during the menstrual cycle.

Many young people, influenced by the media, think that nice boobs have to stand nearly upright. Women tend to think that the perky big breasts are ideal and so many women (about 230,000 in the year 2003 according to American Society of Plastic Surgeons) opt for breast implants.

So it's only natural that adolescent girls worry about their breast size. Parents should tell their daughter that she is still developing and will be until about age 19. Keep emphasizing the importance of developing her mind and her inner qualities, not her body. Women who have not gotten past this adolescent phase about breasts often take drastic unnecessary measures to increase their size.

Instead of worrying about her breast size, tell her she's beautiful the way she is. Explain how inner beauty is what counts. If she's worried about how she appears to boys, tell her that any boy worth caring about, won't care about her breast size.

It's not how you look, it's how you are. Inner beauty is about self-esteem, taking care of yourself, eating right, exercising, developing one's mind, having hobbies and interests, being kind, considerate, and thoughtful of others. Inner beauty is what keeps guys interested, not breast size.

Why are men fascinated by women’s breasts?

The commonly held myth is that the male obsession with those two mounds of soft flesh is a direct result of being breast-fed as little boys. While this can explain part of the fascination, but what about a man who was bottle-fed as a baby and who grew up to have pictures of Cindy Crawford plastered over his bedroom wall? So obviously there’s something more at play here...

The thing about boobs is that they are such a visible part of a woman’s body.

Current fashion trends especially lean heavily towards clothes that accentuate the cleavage.
Besides, popular culture has always celebrated larger breasted women as sexual icons. During the past four decades alone, Marilyn Monroe, Sam Fox, Madonna and Pamela Anderson have all suggested that breasts equal sex appeal. And usually the bigger the boobs, the stronger the sexual signals being sent out.

But breasts aren’t the only sex appeal a woman has – a nice smile, a sense of humour and a warm personality are just as attractive as a pair of 36Ds in a push-up bra.