I like this site - I've looked at it before - but what I really like now is the recent discovery that there are specific galleries for breasts after pregnancy (the letter galleries A through F). All the pictures you showed in this post are still relatively firm and perky (younger women who have never had children, and easier to accept as "normal") but breasts post-pregnancy are very hard to find pictures of, and pregnancy can do a real number on your breasts that takes them far away from the societal standard pushed in our faces every day by advertising, etc. This is rarely discussed.

OK.

(A) please tag NWS in the future. Not all employers consider images of breasts to be okay for work viewing, even if they are non-sexualized. It's just common courtesy to tag NWS or possibly NWS in the article title, or hotlink to the boobs instead of directly embedding them.

(B) As a 25 year old male, I can say that I didn't like any of the breasts in the article. At ALL. So have I just been lucky to have been with girls who had really hot breasts (not necessarily big, just amazing)? Or has society's desire for boobular perfection broken me?

Quite a while ago that I last saw that site (during some failed research into human morphology). A good idea, and I'd like to see it expanded into more than just breasts - people worry about weight, height, penis size, hair, etc., and galleries like this can be quite helpful in re-normalizing their views of the matter.

Franklin: Considering how prominently they're often displayed, I wouldn't be surprised if you were just selecting for the ones you like in the first place. Part of it could also be the way the pictures are presented/taken, as well.

Seeing this reminds how damaging porn was to my teenage perception of breasts. To elaborate, I'll give a chronology:

-As a young boy collecting and hiding Vicotira's Secret and my brother's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues, I thought breasts were magical things that floated high on a woman's chest with perfect geometric semi-spherical form and symmetry.

-Then, pre-puberty I learned that women had nipples, often with *gasp* large areolae. I was horrified and didn't like breasts for a number of years. At all.

-I finally came around when I realized how easy it was to find porn on the internet. I learned to love nipples and areolae now that I saw them on the manifestations of my childhood impression of breasts: those symmetrical geometric semi-spherical forms floating high on women's chests. I had discovered fake boobs. I couldn't understand why every woman didn't want the breasts of a pornstar.

-Then to college. To busy for porn, but not for hooking up. All these women sure do have ugly breasts! Whatever, though, "I'm not a 'boob man'" I would say.

-And here I am now, an adult male. Appreciative of all breasts, many years to late.

Franklin, I hope you are sitting down, because this may come as a shock to you but these pictures were neither taken nor posted for your benefit! It doesn't matter if you don't like them, that has nothing to do with this post or the website the pictures came from. Is there no escape from the male gaze?! There are plenty of "hot or not" sites, Franklin, perhaps you would feel more comfortable with one of them.

The point is that women do have different breasts and there is nothing abnormal about it. There is a great deal of pressure on women to look a certain way, to be "hot" and this has a negative effect on self-esteem, sites like this can reassure women that they're fine the way they are, to help them accept their own bodies.
What men think of them really doesn't matter... except to men like Franklin :)

Franklin: Funny, I must have missed where it asked what kind of breasts you like.

Guess what? No one cares. That goes for all the dudez who feel it necessary to share their preferences.

It's been said already, but Franklin needs to check himself.

Breasts, as a focus for sex of any kind, are a weird western thing. Not bad, not good, but absent from many many cultures. Breasts have one main function, which is feeding babies. And even that doesn't always work so well. What can I say? They're just body parts.

As Clayton testified, porn and mainstream beauty standards mess up male perceptions - and of course women's too. Good sex has nothing at all to do with breasts or individual body parts, and everything to do with being comfortable and excited about one's partner. Insecure and self-conscious people usually start out being bad at sex, but can get better given encouragement and a safe environment. Judgmental assholes are universally bad at sex - don't date them.

I love this idea. I told my boyfriend about it and he said he wished there was one for penises. He thought for most of his life that he had a tiny penis because all the other penises he'd seen were in porn.

Porn seriously fucks up people's sex lives, don't you think?

Wow, Franklin, your comment is incredibly offensive and disrespectful.

I was very happy to see this post and I think its safe to say that your thoughts only confirm why things like this site need to exist.

As someone who has personally struggled with body issues (as most people have in some form or another), I found your comment insensitive.

Wasn't trying to be sensitive.

Well, then, Mr. Franklin H. The-World-Revolves-Around-My-Mighty-Cock, put out some goddamn effort for a change. Surprise us!

Yes, you are broken. I feel sorry for the poor ladies you manage to con into sleeping with you. If any.

Franklin likely doesnt find these breasts attractive because their owners arent posed like dolls waiting for The All Mighty Cock with porn-face on.

Huh. The thought just occurred to me to that breasts kinda look funny on their own. I just looked at my breasts and no other part of my body which I've never really done and I didn't like them. I just realized maybe part of the reason for my generally good body image is my tendency to look at myself as a whole and not parts. Objectively, there could be parts of me that I don't really like but as a whole they fit together and make me a unique person.
I must say I thought I never knew that breasts could appear so far apart. Then I saw that mine are farther apart than I remember.

I know I shouldn't feed trolls, but this is kinda a teachable moment.

Franklin wasn't TRYING to be sensitive. Because being sensitive to other human beings is, like, this totally huge effort, but acting as the douchebag he is comes naturally.

And maybe he feels like we should praise him for being his natural self, just as we praise these women for being brave enough to show their bodies to a judgmental world. But where is the bravery in being an asshole on the internet?

Here is what a non-asshole yet porn-damaged person could have said on this thread: "When I look at these pictures, I find them very different from my expectation of what female breasts should look like. That probably means my expectations have been addled by looking at too much porn. Thanks to these women and this website for making me aware of this human diversity; I hope in time I come to see it as normal."

Although I like the idea of showing natural breasts from women of all sizes and ages, I, like Franklin, was surprised by how few of the images actually came close to my own breasts or the breasts I have seen in my life I fully understand that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I was surprised by how many of the women I have been with have natural- but in my opinion- more appealing breasts than the images of the women on the site. In my experience, the idea that firm, perky breasts or small defined nipples is unrealistic and only found within porn is very false.

There are so many different kinds of breasts and obviously different kinds of people are attracted to different kinds of breasts, but I would caution people to be careful that when trying to create a movement of acceptance and appreciation for all breasts types, they don't take the concept too far and in the process disregard or even mock breasts that DO naturally fit the stereotypical standard of beauty.

You're kidding, right? "Be sensitive to the poor oppressed conventionally beautiful people"? And in what way do 3 of the above pictures NOT represent "perky breasts or small defined nipples"?

Also, it hardly needs saying, but your experience is not universal and should not be assumed to be. For example, probably 90% of the breasts I have ever seen in real life have looked like the more saggy, stretched-nipple variety that you find "unrealistic." But that is not a scientific sample. Neither is the linked gallery, as you point out, but I think it is much more reasonable to be skeptical of the representativeness of the appearance of most breasts we are shown in mainstream media and porn (and, incidentally, which many, many women undergo surgery to achieve... if it's so normal to have "perfect" breasts, than why the near-universal angst around breast appearance?), than it is to be skeptical that the most commonly linked presentation of "real women's" breast appearance online is somehow skewing unrealistic. That just doesn't make sense to me. It's like claiming that despite rampant airbrushing on magazine covers, most women really do have poreless, wrinkle-free skin at any age and fatless arms and thighs and 9-inch necks.

Finally, I wonder what you think of haj's comment about pre- and post-pregnancy breasts. In my opinion (Shape of a Mother aside) the appearance of the post-childbirth body is an incredibly closely guarded "secret" in our society.

You're kidding, right? "Be sensitive to the poor oppressed conventionally beautiful people"? And in what way do 3 of the above pictures NOT represent "perky breasts or small defined nipples"?

Also, it hardly needs saying, but your experience is not universal and should not be assumed to be. For example, probably 90% of the breasts I have ever seen in real life have looked like the more saggy, stretched-nipple variety that you find "unrealistic." But that is not a scientific sample. Neither is the linked gallery, as you point out, but I think it is much more reasonable to be skeptical of the representativeness of the appearance of most breasts we are shown in mainstream media and porn (and, incidentally, which many, many women undergo surgery to achieve... if it's so normal to have "perfect" breasts, than why the near-universal angst around breast appearance?), than it is to be skeptical that the most commonly linked presentation of "real women's" breast appearance online is somehow skewing unrealistic. That just doesn't make sense to me. It's like claiming that despite rampant airbrushing on magazine covers, most women really do have poreless, wrinkle-free skin at any age and fatless arms and thighs and 9-inch necks.

Finally, I wonder what you think of haj's comment about pre- and post-pregnancy breasts. In my opinion (Shape of a Mother aside) the appearance of the post-childbirth body is an incredibly closely guarded "secret" in our society.

Sorry for the double post!

And so, Franklin is successfully driven away from this blog, never to learn again!

Anyway, I think this kind of thing is interesting because there is still a big "normalizing" factor at work. Perhaps less so than in other places which claim to represent "normal" women, like ads and so forth, but it's still there.

However, I definitely see the benefit in this kind of thing. I'm not sold on the "porn fucks people up" thing, because I think many people are able to separate "crazy porn world" from "real world". However, I think that the effects on self-perpeption are important for both women and men. I would wager that many people know that porn is a made-up world with people who are not representative of the wider population. This knowledge is reinforced if they have sexual experiences with members of the opposite sex. The trouble lies in the fact that its less likely for a heterosexual person to have seen other members of their sex nude in a non advertising/pornographic setting, so their only point of reference is those non-representative images.

You're not sold on porn fucking people up because you're invested in enjoying it guilt-free. If porn and pornulated non-porn consumerism is negatively impacting how most people perceive their bodies, then yes, it is indeed fucking people up.

Treatises and assumptions on my own subjective motivations and perspective aside, perhaps the solution is simply for other displays of bodies (such as these) in which people can see diversity and that their own bodies are not "deficient"? This might come with less restrictive attitudes towards sexuality and gender binaries which would remove taboos on people seeing images of other people of their own gender declothed.

I enjoy the irony of the comments telling Franklin that his opinion is not valued. I find the negative reactions a bit surprising, as he openly wonders how his cultural experiences have affected his tastes in breasts, which seems like a good thing to think about. Also, I would have to imagine that website is not likely to receive many submissions from women who think their breasts are perfect.

Hey, ive been online for a few hours trying to find out if this is normal or not, i really dont need any sarcastic comments about this. but i cant find any sites about people who look like or have talked about their breasts looking like one. im not sure if im just over reacting or not but they dont look very seperated. im only 16 and i know they are still growing and it could be harder to tell because im a bigger girl. im worried that they arent seperate breasts and im not sure if its just too soon to really tell cause they arent that big. im not sure if its possible to have them conjoined or not but i was told its possible. hopefully someone can give me a real answer. sorry this maybe a little confusing but im freaking out.

Sam-everyone is different. if youre sixteen closer-together placement is perfectly normal (as is not being really busty) Just relax.
Franklin was quite rude about the images above (although some of them are basically stereotypically nice breasts?) but i think maybe he is pretty representative. Those breasts well-lit and in underwear wont look anything like that -maybe leading to his surprise. He is also only 25. It might have made a good teachable moment but hey- you can lead an ass to water but you cant make it drink.

>>Porn seriously fucks up people’s sex lives, don’t you think?

Fuck. Yes.

I know this post is not about whether porn is good or bad, but I just want to chime in as a woman who really, really enjoys watching porn. My body certainly doesn't fit the pornographic build, but I'm quite pleased with its dimensions and certainly don't compare myself to most of the women I see. There's quite a bit of diversity amongst pornographic websites (personally, I'm not interested in seeing plasticky, shiny bodies wearing white socks on a beige couch...), so maybe I tend to stick with stuff that's (a little) more inclusive of different types of bodies (i.e. kink.com, crashpad, or cyber-dyke.com), but I just want to say that there's nothing inherently problematic about watching other people have sex on the internet, and it doesn't have to mess up one's expectations about the body of oneself or one's partner.