Figure artist here. After many years of pursuing traditional representational study, I've more or less concluded that it's fertility worship.

From the woman of Willendorf to Courbet's Origin to Heff's magazine, there's a running theme here; one more fundamental than sex-for-pleasure.

I love this age of neo-puritianism. We've gone from "if if feels good, do it" to "everything is sexist and you should feel bad because even if you don't consciously doing it, you're still a subconscious sinner. Now pay your penance, heathen."

And then people wonder why millennials are waiting longer to date, lose their virginity, and get married.

Where did you get the idea that GP thinks the depiction of breasts in art is sexist?

> And then people wonder why millennials are waiting longer to date, lose their virginity, and get married.

it's the housing market

Because boobs literally help create human life, and are a direct sign of health and fertility? There's plenty of other important stuff in life too (vaginas anyone? Penises too!... and coding and design and other hobbies of course) but you have to admit, creatinng human life kindna tops the cake here.

Nothing to be ashamed of, the naked human body. And just because someone specifically admires that 1 aspect of a person, does not mean they magically don't realize a whole human person is more than a set of boobs... it so insulting how people assume 'objectification' so quickly, as if just because someone admires nude women, suddenly their ability to realize people are more than just that goes out the window like it never existed.

Well guess what buddy? You think that girl over there is smart, very intelligent, and you admire that? You deplorable objectifier!!! What is she, just some kind of Computational Machine to you? Disgusting... Objectifying her intelligence.

Or is that somehow supposed to be different from sex/nudity?

Sorry for the rant :P More boobs plz!

You're genetically predisposed to like it.

Sure, but I'm talking about an obsession with boobs, not just with liking them.

Not everyone, about half of human population would prefer male chest to female chest.

No, generally speaking everyone is, else you starve as an infant.

Maybe this is late night and I need to get some sleep, but you seemed to solve a big mystery for me. Almost all of my girlfriends either freely admire another woman's breast/body or showed a great deal of jealousy. I felt they were a bit bisexual but this makes a lot more sense.

Preference seems unrelated to respect. As a ~straight male I prefer female breasts but I can still respect a chiseled male chest.

Umm, maybe because people love them?

Because the human form is the most beautiful thing you're ever going to see.

Meditate on the sun.

Please don't downvote this comment simply because you disagree. It's on topic, not a troll, and is asking a legitimate question.