Grokette went braless, should us lady PBers go too? page 7

[drssgchic]

People keep talking about sagging in National Geographic. Just curious- how many of those women have breast-fed? My understanding is that can do a number on the girls. (Haven't myself, so I don't have an n=1)

[namelesswonder]

In the fairness of this being a discussion (originally) in the impact of bralessness on Grokette, she most likely would have breastfed children. We don't know for how many children or for how long, however. Diet definitely plays into the lives of the modern tribal folks referenced. I am sure they are not always in times of plenty. Any (not just significant) weight gain and loss will also affect the shape and "recovery" of the skin.

It is my understanding that a "properly fitting" bra will help prevent all the back problems and such that people tout. I would imagine that a well-fitted "minimal" (read: support as needed, not the padded monstrosities that make women feel inadequate such as exist today) bra combined with occasional free-and-loose would make for the healthiest of breasts in this modern age.

[Grumpycakes]

34I

[sakura_girl]

If you're a serious lifter, doesn't that help with chest muscle support for them?

[paleo-bunny]

If you're a serious lifter, doesn't that help with chest muscle support for them?

Can't say I'm a serious lifter but chess presses have worked wonders for me in that regard. Certainly not enough to go bra-less though as a 34F.

[RoyHerb]

I'd love to go braless, and do at home... but I can't stand the gawkers when I have left the house that way. I need two inches of padding to cover up the nippleage as it is. I have tiny boobies, 34A, and I barely fill the cups, but even have to wear a padded sports bra or I get stares. What is is with men and nipples? They have them too!

[GeorgiaPeach]

I've googled this issue before. And I'd post links if I had time to find them again but the main arguments against bras were:

Holds breast up and causes atrophy in muscles behind the breast= sagging
Bras press on lymph nodes and causes improper drainage
Underwire makes it worse
Body temp is higher when breast are pressed against the chest and something about that being an environment for tumors and blood flow and something else I don't remember
And
Society's phobia over seeing nipples through a shirt and how they need to get over it

That's the stuff I remember.

[sakura_girl]

Can't say I'm a serious lifter but chess presses have worked wonders for me in that regard. Certainly not enough to go bra-less though as a 34F.

Haha I am lucky that I'm a C (and I've been a B when I was underweight). Hopefully my size goes down and I can feel more comfortable bra-less :P

[carlh]

First google result from "do bras cause cancer"

Weiss says that although the idea of having one's breasts in cages with metal wires "impeding fluid and marinating breast tissue in toxic liquid" sounds like a reasonable explanation for cancer, it is not. In fact, as she points out, far from being trapped, bodily fluid actually travels up and out of the armpits, not down toward the underwire.

Also, the ladyfolk I know with the firmest breasts have properly fitted bras and always (by which I mean regularly) wear them. FWIW I appreciate pokies as much as the next guy but it doesn't make or break the, ahem, powerpoint presentation.

[bloodorchid]

normally men coming in lawling about the boobies is annoying, but this... was funny

re; nat geo, the few older copies i've seen the older women sagged heavily, while the younger women looked like someone taped helium balloons to their chest walls so i'm agreeing on age & breastfeeding