I knew that would get your attention!

http://gma.yahoo.com/female-breasts-bigger-ever-under-threat-011608042–abc-news-health.html

I don’t know if I’m just strange, or if it’s a cultural thing; but I’ve never been fascinated by women’s breasts like most American males seem to be. And the leering obsession with sheer size or exposure is totally alien to me. To me, size does not matter. But shape definitely does

I am thoroughly heterosexual, and I admire every part of the female anatomy, but I find shapely legs and hips are what attract my attention the most. Even flat-chested girls are beautiful to me if their other parts are to my liking. It’s the last place I look.

I suspect it is cultural, the Latin men I grew up with didn’t seem as interested in the rig as they did the hull. (Yes, children do pick up on what the grown-ups say when they think the kids aren’t listening.) The concentration on the sail plan seemed to become an issue to my contemporaries in junior high school, and they don’t seem to have evolved past that since.

Erogenous zones are definitely culturally emphasized. I understand the Japanese are fascinated with necks, and Gaugin noticed the Polynesians displayed breasts in stride but hid the female form below the waist. In our own culture, the female leg has been traditionally covered to the heel, even a glimpse of ankle was considered shocking, while male calves were proudly displayed with knee breetches, low pumps and silk stockings. Modesty and morality seem to have little to do with fashion, 18th century men covered their neck with a cloth, or scarf, while their ladies often displayed decolletage and cleavage we might consider entirely up to date.

Of course, whether men are motivated by the boobular or the buttocal is irrelevant, but why and how they get that way is of great interest to me. I am convinced that much of what we feel is the result of our biology or even our psychology is actually culturally determined, or at least, influenced. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, unless you’re not aware it is happening. Then it becomes critical. We need to know why we think the way we do, or we risk deluding ourselves into believing that is the only correct way to think.