: why are boobs attractive ?
In: Biology
The current theory is something like this:
Primates typically find ass displays attractive, because they spend all their time hunched over, and the butt is right there where all the sex stuff happens. A good amount of fat and muscle around the buttocks is a good indication of health.
As humans developed an upright posture, our butts developed quite a bit more muscle, ending up as the large, round shapes we have today.
Of course, now that we’re upright, you can only really see that display from behind, and humans spend most of their time interacting face to face. So we needed a frontal display that would signal the same healthiness, and evolution had already programmed us for “two big round things in your face”. And since evolution also already had some simple coding for adding fat and other tissues to breasts during and after pregnancy, it was easy (in evolutionary terms) for someone to develop the mutation “what if boobs, but ALL THE TIME?” and have that just latch onto the “get sprung” instinctual response.
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