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'''Boobs''', or ''boobies'', ''titties'' etc. | '''Boobs''', or ''boobies'', ''titties'' etc. refers to a frontal sexual display on the human female chest. They provide females with a fairly socially acceptable and subtle means of [[whore|whoring]]. Boobs are also an erogenous zone for women, and besides [[grool]]ing and dilated pupils, engorged nipples are a sign of female arousal. | ||
==Sexual signaling== | == Sexual signaling == | ||
The permanently swollen breasts in human females are ''unique'' among primates. Breasts of other primate species only enlarge during oestrus and breastfeeding.<ref>https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/scientists-still-stumped-by-the-evolution-of-human-breasts</ref> Thus, swollen breasts still signal sexual readiness in the human male hindbrain. This way women can conveniently gain sexual attention when they need it, e.g. to secure continues investment of their mate, to attract a new mate or for near-term resource accrual from short-term sexual encounters. | |||
==Attrative breasts== | ==Attrative breasts== | ||
Boobs are preferred by men today to be round, firm and shaky, in fact firmness is more important than size,<ref>Kościński K. 2019. ''Breast firmness is of greater importance for women's attractiveness than breast size.'' American Journal of Human Biology, 31(5), e23287. [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23287 Abstract]]</ref> | Boobs are preferred by men today to be round, firm and shaky, in fact firmness is more important than size,<ref>Kościński K. 2019. ''Breast firmness is of greater importance for women's attractiveness than breast size.'' American Journal of Human Biology, 31(5), e23287. [[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.23287 Abstract]]</ref> | ||
==Runaway hypothesis== | ==Runaway hypothesis== | ||
Breasts may have been [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selected]] to mimic the [[buttocks]],<ref>Fuller, R. C., Houle, D., & Travis, J. 2005. ''Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences.'' [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/444443 Abstract]]</ref> also explaining men's immense thirst for their sight. This means boobs have no biological purpose besides aesthetic pleasure and passing on this trait to increase the physical attractiveness of the female offspring. To the contrary, [[Good genes hypothesis|good geners]] would claim that well-formed boobs are honest signals of reproductive value, e.g. that they are evidence of the ability to grow fat deposits which are suggested to be prerequisites for reproduction,<ref>https://brill.com/view/journals/ijee/50/1/article-p87_5.xml</ref> however there is little evidence for this being the case. | |||
Breasts may have been [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selected]] to mimic the [[buttocks]],<ref>Fuller, R. C., Houle, D., & Travis, J. 2005. ''Sensory Bias as an Explanation for the Evolution of Mate Preferences.'' [[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/444443 Abstract]]</ref> also explaining men's immense thirst for their sight as it may have been amplified by Fisherian feedback. This means boobs have no biological purpose besides whoring, aesthetic pleasure and passing on this trait to increase the physical attractiveness of the female offspring. To the contrary, [[Good genes hypothesis|good geners]] would claim that well-formed boobs are honest signals of reproductive value, e.g. that they are evidence of the ability to grow fat deposits which are suggested to be prerequisites for reproduction,<ref>https://brill.com/view/journals/ijee/50/1/article-p87_5.xml</ref> however there is little evidence for this being the case. | |||
== References == | == References == | ||