All well and good. I just wear one to stop them from trying to smack me in the chin when I run or jog. And there is no way in hell I'd want it to get to the point where they could slap me on the forehead. Gravity is not a woman's boob's friend by any means.
Bras keep woman's breasts firm and high, mimicking a youthful fertile woman. In societies with a larger population than a small Amazonian tribe, woman need to be more competitive. Bras are justified in your primitive, biological reasoning. Show a Tribesman an American woman with decades of bra defining fertile, vital, energetic breasts- and he will surely much rather 'use' her, than an older dirty jungle woman with breasts unfit for a wife, sagging to the ground as a tired grandmother clock sways her hour hands back and forth, every day, getting slower, lower, and more devoid of life.
i was shocked to see how unencumbered breast hang after years of freedom from support. is that normal?
If you get a bra that fits properly then surely the pressure/restriction issue is no longer an issue. People like Trinny and Suzannah have run endless campaigns to try and motivate women to go and get themselves measured and fitted, as a surprising amount of females walk around in the wrong cup size. So perhaps its not wearing bras per se that carries the risk, but wearing bras that are too small. After all, you're talking about bras as if they're some horrific contraptions made out of steel - a well-fitted bra is VERY comfortable.
So your saying you never saw any of the flabby breasted women in africa? Pick up a national geografic magazine you will soon see the proof.
Can you prove the flabbyness was due to not wearing bras or would it have occured with bras? Where is the evidence?
I asked for proof and you resort to ad hominem (error in logic) and no offer of proof. Let me break it down for you to even more simple terms. In science you need data to prove causation....you need a study group and a control group. A group of braless women with saggy breasts does not mean the saggyness was caused by the lack of a bra. Your example is like someone observing that basketball players are tall; therefore all tall individuals must be basketball players.
Well since you dont beleive the over abundance of proof. You will have to go find it your self. In the countries where they do not wear bras they have saggy breasts, this occures far less in countries where they wear bras. in my word 1+1=2
That's not what ad hominem means. I wouldn't normally correct a user, but as you so pompously defined the term in order to patronise eddie23... ad hominem literally means 'against the man'. Basically, an ad hom argument is one where the source of a claim is discredited or criticised, usually as a way of avoiding addressing and disproving the point itself.
stretchy skin & ligaments sag on everybody through time. This is a matter of gravity pulling them downwards. If I tied a 5 pound weight to my nipple for a year don't you think it would be hanging a few feet lower?
Cellar, "you cannot be that dumb" is not ad hominem? That is not a personal attack meant to discredit?
Citation please? There is no evidence that a bra prevents sagging. Apparently, you've never seen a lean 70 year old woman naked. The reason why the women in National Geographic look saggy is because they've had children and while they had children their breasts were engorged with milk and heavy causing skin stretching which happens with a bra as well as without. But because they are lean and lacking in excess fatty tissue, once the milk has dried and the hormones change, the breasts appear deflated and they sag. It is natural for a woman to look that way, and no bra is going to prevent that. Without surgery, most older women in first world countries who are thin and have had children will look the exact same way even though they have likely worn bras all of their lives. A full breast is a sign of fertility during the child bearing years, and does attract the male almost instinctually in the hunter/gatherer aspect. Trust me when I tell you that when your balls are creating less sperm... they'll sag a lot too. And no amount of tidy whiteys will help prevent that either Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Bras don't prevent sagging. Doesn't aging decrease the elasticity of your skin anyway, which is why people's entire bodies can eventually be covered in saggy skin? Bras just make life more comfortable. I run, walk, go down stairs...etc. with little pain or discomfort.
Not over-much. To me it appears to be an expression of disbelief that anyone could come up with such an argument. He wasn't attacking you in lieu of addressing your point. Anyway, this is all irrelevant, I was referring to your little side-note in brackets.
executive John Dixey at Bras, Bare Facts documentary (http://www.007b.com/bra_sagging.php) So perhaps we should only wear them when we start to sag? Otherwise they're not needed.
There is zero scientific evidence that bras prevent breasts from sagging naturally. It only supports the breast while it is worn, but once removed the breast will naturally return to it's regular state. There is very slight evidence that it actually causes more sagging because it reduces the muscle underneath from working to support the breast tissue. The ball of ignorance is in your court there, eddie. If you want me to link the articles, you will have to wait until I get home from work. A simple google search would have enlightened you before you attempted to make Joe look like a fool, and failed.
it seems to me that a bra that is too large will also have constriction issues. the reasoning is that a woman will tighten the straps in order to achieve a fit. since the cup size is too large they will over tighten the straps. in my opinion a good fitting halter top will serve in most cases and have no constriction issues.