Boobies

I heard about a book on a Podcast IIRC. Savage Love is a likely culprit, but I'm not sure enough to say for certain. It's not important to check.In the past week or so I'm about half done reading Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. On one hand, it's interesting to learn about how, from an evolutionary perspective, they've developed. On the other hand it's fascinating to hear about the obsession with making them different -- bigger for the most part -- and interviewing people around those lines like the lady who got the first legit breast augmentation and doctors that do that. On the third hand, I'm getting a feel for why the breast cancer subject has gotten so much traction in the past few decades.There shouldn't be any controversy over breasts for the most part... but there is. This country especially seems so incredibly conflicted about them. Even on liberal news sites like The Huffington Post people get all up in arms about who is showing too much or too little. Who's it too big or small. The while nine yards. On the other end of the spectrum you have folks that are trying to ensure they are always covered up lest some dude can't control themselves or poor child get the wrong ideas.Oh wait, that's what they're there for, right?A few weeks ago (and now I'm sure of it) there was a call on Savage Love about exactly that. Some guy was worried about his wife breastfeeding in public.To have society conflate the two ideas into one and then get angsty about the whole mess is just screwy.On the cancer front I've learned a lot too. Rather than a lot of super hard data along the lines of "foo causes cancer" it's more along the line of "the mammary gland is one of the most sensitive organs in humans to various natural and synthetic estrogens, here's some data about how that changed in the environment along with correlating trends about age of puberty in girls controlling for other factors."It's a good read so far with some humor and it covers a lot of science without making it seem like reading a medical paper. I might review it more thoroughly when I'm done with it...