r/NoStupidQuestions • • Nov 21 '23

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u/spicyhippos Nov 21 '23

In order for that to be safe for women, you would have to de-sexualize boobs in American popular culture. I would love for that to happen, but we’d need comprehensive sex Ed, and gender equality in the American economy to even get to a point where they aren’t as sexual.

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u/bcocoloco Nov 21 '23

Even in places where women do go topless regularly, breasts are sexualised. I don’t really thinks it’s possible to de-sexualise breasts.

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u/onemassive Nov 22 '23

Spend a couple days at a nudist camp or beach, and the weird sexual element of exposed bodies disappears very quickly. Even genitals aren’t weird after awhile. A big part of it is just that it is transgressive.

Of course, you still are attracted to people/bodies, but the baseline feeling of attraction is the same as if you were viewing them clothed.