Sociological Images

As Breck C. said when he sent these in, “I never thought I’d ‘Breast Pudding’ as a subject line, and yet here we are…’.” These desserts (found here) are for sale in Japan:

You open the flaps on that image to see this next one–get it? It’s like a bra!

They provide several different girls, I guess to suit various tastes. The one on the left here is apparently for those who like their boobs square-ish. The one on the right is presumably for those who like prefer their women to be bored/irritated.

Pitseleh S. found these boob clogs at boinkology.  You can also get these clogs with piercings or tattoos.

Laura L. sent this one:

I found these here thanks to a hint from Stumblng Tumblr.

Boob blindfolds:

In comments to another post, Tim pointed us to this ad:

I stole the next set from Shakesville. Believe it or not, there are even more there.

Shower dispenser:

Boob pillows:

Also boob pillows:

Boob lamp:

Boob beanbag:

Indeed, a boob bong:

Breck C. sent in this image:

Over at Jezebel, they offered this photo essay of a tit-shaped milk “carton”:

Jessica F. sent us in a few more, found at Trend de la Creme. Boob hot water bottles:

Boob ice cubes:

A boob/rocket-shaped “stress toy”:

The boob glasses don’t even make sense:

NEW! Taylor S. sent us this picture of “boob stress relievers” (I think squeezers, you know) sold at a flea market:

NEW! (Feb. ’10): Kate M. sent in this image of a juicer:

ALSO NEW! (Feb. ’10): Liza R. let us know about lighters with flashing boobs; once I looked around online, I found both female and male versions:

NEW (June ’10)! Dmitriy T.M. sent in a boob scarf for sale at etsy.com.  Basiorana notes that:

The boob scarf is made by Heather Cushman-Dowdee, a lactation activist, as a way to bring awareness to the non-sexual nature of breasts. She wishes them to be used to distract people from mothers who are nursing in public, and to bring awareness to the ridiculousness of anti-breastfeeding laws. Unlike the rest of the items in [this] post, her scarves are explicitly NOT intended to be sexual, and her intended audience is fellow nursing activists who wish to desexualize breasts.

She has a couple comics explaining their intent on her website, mama-is.com

This image, and others, can be found at Mental Floss under the heading of “Only the Creepiest Photos Ever Taken.”

The post includes the following quote from Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America by Stanley Burns.

These photographs were a common aspect of American culture, a part of the mourning and memorialization process. Surviving families were proud of these images and hung them in their homes, sent copies to friends and relatives, wore them as lockets or carried them as pocket mirrors. Nineteenth-century Americans knew how to respond to these images. Today there is no culturally normative response to postmortem photographs.