The real reason men are obsessed with breasts

For a long time, when it came to the female body part preferred by Brazilian men, the opinion was almost unanimous and the female butt reigned absolute as a national preference. But, since the late 90s, this position has also been disputed by breasts, which are increasingly gaining space in the imagination and male preference.

It was at this time that top model Gisele Bundchen began to attract the attention of men and women by parading on the catwalks a blonde, thin beauty with voluminous breasts, which was enough to launch a new stereotype to be followed by Brazilians and many other women. in the world. Since then, the number of women who try to follow this pattern only grows and the search for breast implants in Brazil is one of the largest in the world.

The fact is that men have always behaved differently in relation to female breasts, but it was thanks to this popularization and also to greater exposure in the media and outside of it, that men were able to feel more comfortable looking at cleavage and assuming this preference that , in many cases, it can even be called an obsession. But what is the real reason why men are fascinated and jaw-dropping in front of a beautiful pair of breasts?

According to researchers, men assimilate the image of breasts to cultural, biological and emotional factors that originate in childhood and represent a source of food, warmth and maternal affection, but when they become men, all this reverts to a new source of pleasure, eroticism and sensuality, whether natural or silicone breasts.

So say Larry Young, one of the world’s leading experts in the neuroscience of the social bond, and Brian Alexander, authors of The Chemistry Between Us: Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction. of attraction), which proposes to answer the relationship between men and women’s breasts.

According to them, among mammals, men are the only ones who are interested in breasts in the sexual aspect and only in women does the transformation that increases the size of the breasts during puberty occur. Furthermore, men are the only animals in which sexual caressing and manual and oral stimulation of the breasts are part of foreplay and sex, increasing arousal in both men and women.

The hormone that is released by the woman during the act of breastfeeding helps to create bonds between the mother and the baby in a relationship of love, protection and intimacy, which happens in a similar way in adult life, creating a bond between the couple.

According to the researchers, during breastfeeding, the baby stimulates the mother’s breasts, which sends signals to the brain’s hypothalamus, which in turn releases oxytocin, the hormone responsible for releasing breast milk and keeping the mother’s attention fully focused on her. the baby. This makes the newborn the most important thing in the world for the woman, who is totally satisfied with being able to take care of it and protect it, creating a strong and lasting bond.

According to Larry, when a man stimulates a woman’s breasts, the same series of brain events that happened during breastfeeding are initiated.

This theory refutes that of other currents of biologists. One of them claims that the man’s interest happens because, when they see a pair of full breasts, they see it as a sign of health that indicates that a woman can have healthy children.

Another current claims that this attraction occurs because primates have sex from behind and the breasts imitate the shape of the buttocks, which generates the attraction.

As for the researchers, attraction has to do with mechanisms in the brain that promote the bond between mother and baby in early childhood, arousing an attraction that follows throughout life, proof of this, according to them, is the fact that humans being the only ones who have a sexual relationship looking into each other’s eyes, a trait that developed from the brain circuit created from the relationship between the mother and the newborn.

Also according to the researchers, in a survey conducted by the Universities of Sheffield and Texas on stimulation in the breast region shows that 82% of women enjoy caressing in the region and 60% of them explicitly ask to be stimulated in the breasts.