Why Do Women Have Breasts?

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
I was under the impression that you needed XX or XY in order to function. Any other combination simply won't do.
Gatekeeper

There's a genetic condition where a child only has one X chromosome. Physically, it's a girl, can't remember if they are fertile or not.

Also, depending on if the X chromosome came from the mother or the father, the girl acts in different ways. But that's fun stuff on competition between parternal and maternal genes.

[Az]

better than having 3 sex chromosomes.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Humans mate from the front, so it is thought that human females lost the swelling buttocks because they're not very prominent in erect walking humans, but then evolved larger frontal breasts to attract mates.

In many cultures, breasts don't have anywhere near the attraction from men as they do in our culture. In many cultures, breasts are not considered sexual at all, especially in hot climates.

Furthermore, humans mating soley from the front is a Christian thing. Try reading the Kama Sutra sometime. Humans mate from any direction they can. Furthermore, in terms of deepest penetration, from the rear is the best position, which means that semen is less likely to escape down someone's leg.

[Az]

Indeed.

Breasts are still good to get a grip, though.

[FrostyBoy]

It is not to make them attractive - that's what stupid sexual fanatic scientists came up with.

If you lived in a Nudist camp all your life (I have not), you would not be aroused or attracted because of her breasts.

The fact is, when something is hyped up to be something great, the masses will believe and follow.

Remember, there were a time where women had to hide their ankles, men got aroused just by seeing that.

But because the breasts generally vary quite a lot from woman to woman, the breast has remained the most wanted-to-see part of the female body.

[FrostyBoy]

You can train yourself to stop being a follower of course, and so therefore it cannot be an instinct, but rather the media and your friends have brainwashed you by accident.

[Eli]

It's got one active gene and a bunch of junk DNA that's gotten dumped there.

There is something I always wondered about...

What if all this junk DNA is actually documentation?

[Dinner]

Stop asking why and just enjoy them.

[Gatekeeper]

Well, what we need is some female perspective on this, and the odds of that at 'Poly are approximately 1 in 500 or so, correct?

Gatekeeper

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Stop asking why and just enjoy them.

Best answer.

[Dis]

women who have a defective y chromosone are infertile and cannot get pregnant btw.

[Dinner]

Any woman who has a Y chromosome is defective to begin with.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Actually a portion of the fat that makes up milk does indeed come from the fatty tissue in which the milk glands are embedded. There is however a theory that the breasts are a replacement of the fleshy buttocks sported by female apes during estrus. In apes the buttocks of the female swell during the ovulatory portion of the estrus cycle, and serve to give males notice that the female is ready to breed. Apes mate from the rear. Humans mate from the front....

Humans mate from the front? D'oh!

[Whaleboy]

...cos they feel nice?

[Whaleboy]

Humans mate from the front....

Well... we *are* adaptable...

*trust me to lower the tone*