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Why do we call breasts “boobs”?

Bras contain breasts, not boobs. (Nicholas Veasey/Getty Images) Thanks to Monday’s Boobquake, I’ve had breasts on the brain this week. Specifically, the sexualization of women’s cleavage – not to be...

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Stuff Mom Never Told You about Cleavage and Driving

We’re headed in to a holiday weekend here in the U.S., so if you’re preparing for a trip, why not download our latest podcasts and take them with you? In this post I’ll give you a sneak peek of the...

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LA Times Lends a Double Meaning to “Support”

Molly and I often dissect women- and gender-related topics down to their most granular details on Stuff Mom Never Told You. But we also try to maintain a sense of humor while studying and analyzing...

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Today’s Uproar –“Staring at breasts is good for your health”

The following video was posted on Tuesday and has since caused something of an uproar: The only problem is that this fake story has been floating around for more than a decade, as explained in this...

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Blow The Mind: Mother’s Milk

A mother breastfeeding her child, circa 1600. A skull watches on for some reason. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images If you just think of milk as an infant-sustaining breast beverage, then you’ve...

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Confronting Cameroon’s Hush-Hush Tradition of Breast “Ironing”

According to a 2006 study, 24 percent of women in Cameroon have undergone breast “ironing.” (© Ann Johansson/Corbis) Before 2006, there wasn’t a widely accepted term for the West African tradition of...

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