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Not a fan of Matt Walsh but he may have half a point about... breasts. There is an account by Sir Richard Francis Burton of a visit to the Amazons of legend in which he reports that they did not in fact sear their breasts off. At least in some cultures in which women's breasts were bound, it only happened to stop them from growing cumbersomely large, around or after lactation . It must be very few cultures, if any, that would seriously impede their development in adolescents.
And, of course, until recently, breasts were not universally fetishized and sexualized. One thinks of all those photographs of tribes living on or beyond the edges of civilization whose women could walk around bare-chested without attracting attention. My own guess is that pornography has given steroids to what was once probably a regional, culture-bound attitude towards breasts.
Not a fan of Matt Walsh but he may have half a point about... breasts. There is an account by Sir Richard Francis Burton of a visit to the Amazons of legend in which he reports that they did not in fact sear their breasts off. At least in some cultures in which women's breasts were bound, it only happened to stop them from growing cumbersomely large, around or after lactation . It must be very few cultures, if any, that would seriously impede their development in adolescents.
And, of course, until recently, breasts were not universally fetishized and sexualized. One thinks of all those photographs of tribes living on or beyond the edges of civilization whose women could walk around bare-chested without attracting attention. My own guess is that pornography has given steroids to what was once probably a regional, culture-bound attitude towards breasts.