Wearing a bra will make your breasts saggy, not wearing one can perk them up again.

rubadub

No bra for 1 year
In 2003, a young sportswoman, Dr. Laetitia Pierrot, became interested in the question of knowing if there was any real interest in whether a woman should wear a bra or not for sports (1). For this purpose, she carried out a study of 33 volunteers who regularly participated in sport and who she asked to go without a bra for a whole year. The subjects were between 18 and 25 years, in good health, did not smoke and practised a sports activity for at least four hours per week. She separated those doing 'vertical' sports, for example gymnastics or foot racing, from 'horizontal' sports such as swimming. It is important to realise that these women stopped wearing a bra completely, not only for sport, but also in everyday life. The protocol included both biometric assessment and questionnaires at four time intervals during the study

Better formed breasts
At the time of the first evaluation which took place at 6 weeks from the start of the study, a majority of the women reported some discomfort; it is not easy to give up a practice that has been very much a part of ones everyday life. This discomfort had improved by six months, and had gone by the end of the study, with 88% of the women reporting that they felt more comfortable and had more freedom of movement. As for the biometric assessments, there was an improvement in the quality of the tissues and better muscular development in the rotator muscles of the shoulders and the pectoralis major. An added benefit was a major reduction in the stretch marks during the first six weeks. This was explained by the absence of compression by the bra of the skin and vascular pedicles and better venous and lymphatic drainage. Other measurements confirmed the advantages of not wearing a bra. After one year, for example, it was noted that there was a clear reduction in the distance from the nipple to the shoulder bones (acromion), lifting the breast. The other measurements were similarly improved, an increase in the distance from the nipple to the bottom of the breast, and the horizontal nipple angle. On the other hand, there was no significant difference between the two sporting activities (vertical and horizontal).

Conclusions
From all these biometric measurements, one can conclude that, contrary to popular opinion, the breasts do not sag if not supported. After an initial period of adaptation, the women who took part in this study did not have any complaints of discomfort while participating in sports and even gained a more positive aesthetic shape to their breasts. Something to think about.

Institute of Human Living Sciences, Otsuma Women's University, Tokyo, Japan.

Eleven adult female subjects aged 22-39 years wore a certain brassière for 3 months while anthropometry and moiré fringe photographs on the anterior trunk were taken regularly once a week. After the 3 months, the brassière was not worn for another 3 months. Then the measurements and photogrammetry were repeated for comparison using superimposed moiré configurations. The results are summarized as follows. Regardless of slim or obese trunk, subjects with pendent breasts showed the highest degree of breast form "correction" from wearing the brassière. In all subjects, after 3 months of brassière constraint, the underbust circumference was smaller but the chest circumference became enlarged, the distance between the right and left nipples became wider, and the breasts tended to hang down. This change was more marked in obese subjects with pendent breasts. And when this type of subject wore a "well-fitted" brassière for a long time, her breast form became developed; that is, her breasts hung down more.

Warning, pics of boobs on this site!
http://www.antibra.com/bra_sagging.php

http://www.007b.com/why_wear_bras.php

Bras and breast cancer risk

Bra-wearing has been linked to breast cancer in a study done by Sidney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer. They found, for example, that women who wore a bra 24 hours a day had a 113-fold increase in breast cancer incidence compared to women who wore bra less than 12 hours daily! They suggest that bras exert enough pressure to the breast and surrounding areas to inhibit the flow of lymph, which then causes toxins and other waste material to remain in the breasts instead of being flushed out.

Now, this effect may be due to the fact that most women just wear the wrong size bra that is too tight somewhere. No one has done any studies investigating the link between breast cancer and how well the woman's bra fits. Either way, for your breast health's sake it is better to avoid wearing bras whenever possible, and for those occasions when you do need one, get well-fitting bras.

I read a few comments saying one day bras could be looked upon like victorian corsets which caused internal damage to organs just for the sake of fashion or what society expects, with people saying WTF were they thinking wearing those bra yokes all the time.

gogo

Just had a mental image of Charlie Dimmock on gardners world, its a bra for me thanks.

mink_man

sooo, pulling your willy will make it shorter and not pulling it will make it bigger?

What do I do?! :eek:

El_Dangeroso

Bra's seem to worsen back pain too:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11153784

Women of boards, BURN YOUR BRAS!

biko

I saw a braless? big boobed woman run down the street once, it was exhilarating and kinda scary at the same time.

Cheap Thrills!

Average woman is sedentary. This study used women who 'regularly participated in sport' etc so study is irrelevant !!!

DerekDGoldfish

PICS or GTFO

SoupyNorman

Too many words, not enough tits.

Agricola

Bra-less women................playing sports................make that water sports! Emmmmmmmmmmm.

TanG411

I'm definitely taking up running if braless women start doing the same.

Oh yes!

Diabhal Beag

Bras are dangerous too. They could take your eye out!!

ctrl-alt-delete

Agricola wrote: »

Bra-less women................playing sports................make that water sports! Emmmmmmmmmmm.

There are 2 ways that i know of that this can be taken.....

I sure hope you mean water polo and the likes!

rubadub

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Average woman is sedentary. This study used women who 'regularly participated in sport' etc so study is irrelevant !!!

Of course it is relevant! the whole thing is about support leading to atrophy, and I expect they used athletes to overstate the error in the common idea that not wearing a bra would lead to sagging, and that not wearing one during sports would cause extreme sagging.

Mrmoe

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

There are 2 ways that i know of that this can be taken.....

I sure hope you mean water polo and the likes!

Don't forget motorboating

jd007

Don't ya hate pants bras.