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...
View ArticleStuff 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...
View ArticleLA 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...
View ArticleToday’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...
View ArticleBlow 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...
View ArticleConfronting 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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