Your boobs: what do they mean to you?

AnnyHallsal

It's mostly genes, innit? I doubt exercise could do much and the right bra can only deter gravity so much. Mine were never the perkiest. At 27, they're still ok, especially when it's cold :rolleyes: I'd love to have a lift. If I could afford it I'd consider it, though the OH would go spare. I'd also feel it was something of a betrayal. I wish society wasn't so preoccupied with unbelievably perfect jackpot boobies. If we could accept all kinds it would be much better

dammitjanet

lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains

princess-lala

I love my boobs, they are small enough but I still love them Got measured recently and was quite shocked to hear Ive been wearing the wrong bra for years

I feel so much better in my new bras

Dudess

mood wrote: »

I'm 30 and they are the same as when I was 18!

I don't think I could honestly claim that but yeah, there is so much of an obsession with what age this, that and the other occur. Being 30+ is not a guarantee of severe breast droopage yet, just because it's what we're led to believe. I think many women can be very hard on themselves - even imagining stuff that's not even there just because they're at a certain age (and yes, I appreciate ageing is a reality - I'm not denying it).
If they're big, they'll sag - could happen at various ages. I do think a good bra will help maintain them (a woman who didn't wear one for several years was on Trinny & Susannah and they were literally past her knees - she seemed to have no time for herself and just didn't bother taking care of herself in any way, and it was quite sad as she got very upset) and as for exercise: well, going by the anecdotes of others anyway, it seems to keep them more pert.

G86

I just find mine annoying when I'm clothes shopping, especially if I'm trying on backless tops/dresses and then have to try and find a multi strap bra to wear with them - which is an impossible feat as I'm 36DD and they almost never have them in my size. I'm happy enough though, I think I'm pretty in proportion as I'm pretty tall, although I did go up to 36E when I put on weight a while back and I wasn't happy with that. So these days if my bra gets tight I know I need to work out harder!:p

But I never really think of them as big to be honest and I'm not one of those girls who goes out with her boobs hanging out 24/7 either - they're pretty obvious without the whole world and it's mother having them shoved in their face too:rolleyes: My friends are obsessed with them though, it's fecking hilarious - my best friend and I decided that if we had her bum and my boobs we'd be happy out:p

My one major gripe is that I spend a fortune on bras - Pennys never stock larger sizes so I always end up going to the likes of La Senza and spending €30+ which is sickening when they're about €5 in Pennys!

I don't really understand girls who get implants, but I guess it's because it's not something I've ever had to consider. I mean, I envy small chested girls sometimes, especially when I go shopping and nothing fits! It's really hard to find clothes to fit you properly with 2 fecking gazoomas in the way:rolleyes: Plus girls with small boobs are often pear shaped and have amazing bums to make up for it!

Dudess

Yeah, it seems very few women have that idealised hourglass shape, with boobage and arse and hips and shapely thighs and flat stomach/tiny waist - instead, most of us have bits of the above... but rarely all of it.

Lia_lia

Mine are...small. Somewhere between a 34A and a 34B. Depends on the bra. I don't really like them. But I guess they suit my body or whatever, I don't know. I get all insecure when I'm doing sex things with guys and they go for my boobs and I'm just thinking, "noo! there is no point...they are shit!". Yeah.

AnnyHallsal

Lia_lia wrote: »

Mine are...small. Somewhere between a 34A and a 34B. Depends on the bra. I don't really like them. But I guess they suit my body or whatever, I don't know. I get all insecure when I'm doing sex things with guys and they go for my boobs and I'm just thinking, "noo! there is no point...they are shit!". Yeah.

Some men love small boobies. And they're still books, with nipples and all. Comfort yourself with the thought that you don't have to worry about the sagging Unless the man's a complete tool, he'll be happy to be allowed see a pair regardless. I think women are harder on themselves than anyone else is much of the time.

Nevyn

kraggy wrote: »

Serious question.

How sensitive ARE your nipples? Does it REALLY do something for you when they are touched/sucked during sexual activity?

It's just, I'm a guy and mine are so insensitive that you could actually touch them and I wouldn't even feel it. Honestly. No sensitivity at all.

It varies from having little or no effect to some women being able to orgasm when their breasts/nipples are stimulated.

Realtine

Hate mine - always have - OH loves them - mine are BIG - like 36DD/E
And I have had a problem with a tumour in the past (benign thank christ)
But had to go through all the tests and I know that very frightening feeling of all that, from first finding a lump to all the testing, biopsy and the rest and to having surgery to have it out...but I don't think I want to go down the road of having reduction surgery -and I obviously wouldn't want to lose them! oh and nipples aren't sensitive either - and I never wanted to breast feed, that was just too weird for me.
Men definitely notice them though - oddly enough, that doesn't bother me - I just think they're jealous - lol.

StinkySocs

Mine are ok, I'm slightly overweight, and they're 36D. I've never really thought what I would do if I had to get one or both removed....thou, after reading this, I think I would defo consider it.

I like my boobs and when I'm down and have to go out, they give me a little bit on an extra budge to go out, cos all my mates are really skinny and have only fried eggs!!

Question: Do you name yours??

Dudess

I was in Dunnes earlier and saw knickers and padded bra sets in the children's section - not teenage, childen's. The age on them was 10 years... I had actually gone over there by accident thinking it was an adult section that had been moved there. Ok, the knickers weren't thongs, but padded bras? For what? And the pattern, while not raunchy, would still suit a grown woman. I was kinda laughing at the ridiculousness of it, but also well weirded out.

chocgirl

Dudess wrote: »

I was in Dunnes earlier and saw knickers and padded bra sets in the children's section - not teenage, childen's. The age on them was 10 years... I had actually gone over there by accident thinking it was an adult section that had been moved there. Ok, the knickers weren't thongs, but padded bras? For what? And the pattern, while not raunchy, would still suit a grown woman. I was kinda laughing at the ridiculousness of it, but also well weirded out.

I've seen this before, really sad thing is that they'll sell, plenty of mothers will buy them for their little darlings!

metrovelvet

That is weird. I had training bras at 9 but padded? Oh weird.

AnnyHallsal

Whose buying them, and why I wonder? There must be a market for them cos they seem to be everywhere. Maybe little girls pressure Moms into buying them, perpetuating a vicious circle.

Dudess

metrovelvet wrote: »

That is weird. I had training bras at 9 but padded? Oh weird.

Yep, some girls start developing breasts very early, but the fact these have padding and the fact they're part of a matching set, indicates they're not purely functional. Hardly for seduction purposes, more like cashing in on the little girl desire to be grown up and do stuff that women do. The former seems reasonable enough - I used to dress up in my mum's clothes all the time when I was little, and put on her make-up (badly!), I worshipped Madonna - but for companies to cash in on it is pretty darn cynical.

SeekUp

dammitjanet wrote: »

lucky that my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains

I was always really offended by those lyrics!!

Padded bras in the children's section, well . . . that's just . . . disconcerting.

AnnyHallsal

Many girls can't wait until the woman things start happening but back in my day bras and makeup were strictly off limits until a certain age.

Dudess

Although in the 80s you could get bikinis for little girls - being a member of said demographic at the time, I thought it was as weird then as I do now. I remember the three sisters next door were wearing them from about aged three. They just looked strange...

AnnyHallsal

Heh heh, I requested an off-the-shoulder communion dress. It was not allowed. I couldn't understand why

Dudess

That's not too bad though, is it?

AnnyHallsal

It seems it wasn't acceptable in the 80s. Sure even then a thong was exotic, in rural Ireland anyway.

SeekUp

AnnyHallsal wrote: »

Many girls can't wait until the woman things start happening but back in my day bras and makeup were strictly off limits until a certain age.

It's true . . . when girls my age were starting to develop before me, all I wanted was a bra. I used to wear undershirts under my tops when it was cool outside, and I remember telling my mom that my undershirts were getting to small (meaning to imply that my little buds were getting too big for undershirts). She replied, "Well I guess we'll have to get you bigger undershirts then." Not what I wanted to hear!

AnnyHallsal

Awh, that's so cute. I remember when I was twelve hearing a woman on Gerry Ryan talking about how she never took her bra off, wore it in the shower and everything, to prevent them sagging. It made getting older seem awful. Why she was talking to Gerry Ryan about it I don't know.

Dudess

When I was 11/12, other girls my age started going on about bras - this was the late 80s/early 90s. It seemed like they were more concerned with the functional aspect though, rather than the womanly/"sexy" one.

pookie82

metaoblivia wrote: »

One of the most significant experiences I had was going to a ladies locker room and seeing a wide variety of boobs for the first time. That probably sounds creepy, but the only real boobs I had ever seen up until then had been my mother's and my own. I started to appreciate my boobs a lot more after that.

It's funny you should say that because I had the exact same experience in a gym locker room once and have felt totally different about my own breasts since.

The only breasts I had ever seen up to that point were ones on movies/porn/magazines, i.e. pert yet big boobs which sat nicely on women's chests with or without bras and looked pretty perfect. Every time I saw a girl in a nice dress or top showing generous cleavage I always envied them hugely. I never made the bra-comes-off-and-most-breasts-droop connection until I saw it for myself. Women with seemingly fabulous breasts took off their bras to change/shower and all of a sudden they were flopping around like old sandbags

I'm a B-cup and I always wanted bigger but it's only in the last few years that I've grown to really like what I have. They stay in the exact same position with or without a bra (I only wear a padded bra to give them a little extra in tops), I can go without a bra if the weather is hot and I'm on holidays, they're a really lovely shape, I can wear all sorts of dainty bras and I never have to worry about them hurting me.

Another thing that strikes me the odd time (and it's probably a really morbid thought) is that if the dreaded breast cancer ever struck and I had to lose one, there wouldn't be too much breast to lose really. I wouldn't hesitate to have re constructive surgery in that event, though obviously it would depend on how I felt if it happened.

From my gym experience and my OH's accounts of the breasts he's seen in the past, I've learned that I'm really happy not having bigger breasts, and that seeing a girl with a really impressive cleavage doesn't mean they'll stay perfect when the bra comes off.

I think to that as I get older things like this just matter less to me anyway. I'm definitely getting more comfortable with aspects of myself I used to have big problems with.

silvervixen84

I didn't have much to speak of until I turned 18 and went on the pill, then they grew to 32D, and even though I've been off the pill for a few years, at 25 they are still the same size. I'm happy with them, but still tend to wear a wonderbra to give them a "boost" with certain tops.

I always said if found a lump in one that turned out to be cancerous, I'd have no hesitation to get the entire breast removed, and i'm not being dramatic about that. There's always reconstruction - health over appearance.

Nevyn

The padding in those beginers bras is not to make thier boobs look bigger but to protect thier developing sore boobs from knocks and bumbs. They are not wonderbras and are less then a sholder pad thick and saves some of the embrassment when one boob grows considerably quicker then the other.

metrovelvet

I havent given it much thought really. Im happy they are in the shape they are in. I suppose like garnish on a dinner plate, I take them for granted but would miss them if they werent there. It was a real shock when my son was born and they didnt work. I felt like ...I dunno... some kind of failure of nature but it really clued me in to how tied our emotions and minds are into the functions of our body.

lil'bug

i wish i could buy cheaper bra's instead of spending 30-40 yoyo on one
pennt's have some really cute designs but i can never get them in my size argh!!!!!!

Maple

Lia_lia wrote: »

Mine are...small. Somewhere between a 34A and a 34B. Depends on the bra. I don't really like them. But I guess they suit my body or whatever, I don't know. I get all insecure when I'm doing sex things with guys and they go for my boobs and I'm just thinking, "noo! there is no point...they are shit!". Yeah.

I doubt he'll be thinking the same tho. I used have the same fear, discussed it with my boyfriend at the time and he rather eloquently told me that I was mad. He had a big rant at me and then when I went a bit tearful and sniffly, he wound his neck in and in an attempt to cheer me up informed me that "more than a handful/mouthful is a waste". I went from to :eek: to :pac:

StinkySocs wrote: »

Question: Do you name yours??

Nope. My ex used to tho. He gave them these really odd sounding foreign names.

Ickle Magoo

My breasts mean/have meant different things to me depending on circumstances.

Growing up I was an early developer, getting my period at nine and I had well formed breasts from around 12/13 - I grew up considering them a constant source of shame and resenting them as they prevented me from doing well in a lot of sports that up until that point I had enjoyed out of awkwardness and self-conciousness. Having been a tom-boy they just felt like a statement of difference between me and my male-friends and some kind of badge of sexuality which I really didn't like.

As I got older and became sexually active I saw the benefits from a whole different perspective, not just their sensations for me but also their effect on the opposite sex and I gradually became more able to dress to look sexy and show off my cleavage with pride.

My son was born premature and had no suck and I ended up pumping for him and most of the NICU which was amazing & a huge source of pride on one hand but as I pumped for months and months and he never did learn to latch on and was fed expressed milk in a bottle, has also been a source of jibes and insults regarding bonding and bad mothering from certain quarters which made me a bit ashamed of my breasts not being able to function as they should.

I love them from a sexual or sensual perspective and as much as I'd like a breast lift and reduction now, two kids later they have seen better days but there is no way I'm risking loosing sensation for the sake of aesthetics. Mr Magoo loves them so they can't be too horrendous!

They are a pain in the bahookie for getting nice looking, sexy bras in EE and I'd love to have smaller breasts for ease of sporting activities, choosing clothes, etc but I have what I have and all in all, they are as much a part of me at this stage as my Pingu-esque size 7 feet or kooky bluey/grey eyes.

akamossy

I have no real issue with mine, I wish they were smaller at times so I didn't have to spend a fortune on bras but my friends seem to be envious of them

Seraphina

My boobs started growing from a pretty early age, and while they've never gotten massive, they've always been a pretty decent size (34D) despite weight fluctuations over the years. I'd probably be pretty devastated if I had to have surgery on them for health reasons, as they have always had a fantastic shape, and sat really nicely on me. They are a perfect size for my body, and balance my bum nicely giving me a pretty sweet hourglass figure (though it took me a long time to realise that!)

The worst part would almost certainly be the prospect of losing sensitivity after surgery. My nipples are extremely sensitive, and I LOVE having them touched during intimacy (and men seem to love touching them, so it all works out nicely ) I can't imagine what it would be like to feel nothing in them, the thought terrifies me!

I think I would definitely feel less womanly if something happened too them, not just because of my physical appearance, but because of how they feel sexually. It's really not something I like to think about

AARRRRGH

Mine started to grow when i was 30.
It really upset me for a few years. I still look in the mirror and want them gone.
Depressing. My other half hates them too.

how would you like these. Here is a picture of them.

As i said. I hate them and need a reduction.

Dudess

lil'bug wrote: »

i wish i could buy cheaper bra's instead of spending 30-40 yoyo on one
pennt's have some really cute designs but i can never get them in my size argh!!!!!!

Went to the hallowed M&S yesterday - fooking shyte. Debenhams/La Senza ftw!

Walls

La Senza lost me forever as a customer when they put a woman in their window dressed in lingerie one Christmas, and she had to contend with the leering and hidden tugs of boys/men passing by on the street. After that, I just can't give them my money.

lil'bug

what really bugs me is the difference between bra sizes a 38 E freya bra is perfect a 38 E wonder bra is way too small why can't they just have a universal size

mood

lil'bug wrote: »

what really bugs me is the difference between bra sizes a 38 E freya bra is perfect a 38 E wonder bra is way too small why can't they just have a universal size

I find that with all clothes and shoes not just bras!

UpCork

To be honest, they are probably the only part of my body I don't have a problem with. I think they are proportion with my body - not too small not too big.

McChubbin

One of mine is a full cup smaller than the other.
They're slightly saggy, droopy and feel rather squishy.
The nipples are small but springy.
I'm a 40 in the back and fluctuate in cup sizes.
They're a nuisence...

...But i wouldn't change a thing!

Novella

My boobs. They're small. I guess I used to wish I had bigger boobs, but I'm cool with them now. Sure, I probably still complain about them but overall, they're fine. They can't possibly ever sag, because they're tiny! :pac: Bra, no bra, they stay in the same place, so I'm happy.

I don't think they represent my womanliness or anything like that. At least, I hope they don't or I am seriously falling short of the mark!!! I wouldn't be sad if I lost weight and they got smaller, although I'm not sure that's viable. They're just boobs, I never really think about them tbh.

Maple

AARRRRGH wrote: »

Mine started to grow when i was 30.
It really upset me for a few years. I still look in the mirror and want them gone.
Depressing. My other half hates them too.

how would you like these. Here is a picture of them.

As i said. I hate them and need a reduction.

Infraction given.

This isn't AH.

Maple.