Research Reveals: Women's Breasts Are Getting Bigger
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There are areas of research you don't ordinarily consider.
The size of a woman's breasts is one of the most common interests of heterosexual men. (And in various ways a serious issue for women.)
But it hadn't occurred to me that anyone was keeping track of the average breast size.
Supposedly women's breasts have been getting larger.
Why? Miracle herbs? Diet and exercise? Suction cups? Plastic surgery? The increase in obesity?
Research today reveals that the average bust measures 36in compared with 34in a decade ago.
And even cup sizes are fuller, increasing from a modest B to a fuller C or D.
The study by market analysts Mintel found that today's more buxom women have sent sales of structured and supportive underwired bras soaring.
Comments
It’s evolution. Women with bigger breasts are more sexually attractive, therefore upping the chances that they mate and produce offspring.
Posted by: Lauren | October 13, 2005 08:47 PM
To Lauren of the last post,
Yes, it would seem so. However, hip size is getting smaller, which is far less sexy and attractive. Hip sizes have become “boyish,” according to art historians. (i can back that up, but i am not sitting in my library.)
Posted by: sweetecho | October 14, 2005 04:34 AM
i’m not sure that ‘evolution’ is the right answer for a dramatic change that has taken place in only ten years. evolution works a tad slower than that. my sense is that we can more likely attribute this change to the rise in obesity.
this research comes from the UK, where obesity tripled between 1980 and 1998. (see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1170787.stm).
not so sexy, this news.
Posted by: optimus | October 15, 2005 12:37 PM
Actually, it’s been studied that the affects of larger breasts and faster developing teenagers (both men and women) are due to the overabundance of hormones on the chicken and beef that are consumed today. More of the meat that we eat is raised on farms that use hormones to “fatten” the animal up in a shorter time frame and these hormones are being passed onto the people who eat them.
Posted by: Science | October 19, 2005 02:06 PM