I got ahead of social development with too much detail about how men respond to bare boobs in the public arena. Mrs. Guy vetoed my effort, so I’ll fall back, recap, and stay on track.
Europe. Women appear topless in various areas where interaction between the sexes is not normally face to face. Such as swimming pools, beaches, saunas, etc. Also, breasts and full female nudity sometimes appear in newspapers, advertisements, and TV commercials. Women should pay more attention. It opens the door for expansion of breast exposure and full nudity, when the right inducements come along. The next generation or two of young females will provide such inducement.
America. Young women, especially coeds and concert goers, lift tee shirts to expose their breasts. We can call them the first generation. What will the second generation look like and do? The third? If the history of copying European social practices means anything, American women will venture into other areas close to but somehow different from Europeans. The net result, however, means more boobs in the limelight and full nudity on the way.
Trends. A new generation comes around about every seven years. About that often girls (and boys too) turn away from their older siblings and generate new and different social identities, habits, music, and adventures that put a stamp on their generation. Invariably, they outdo their siblings who outdid their moms.
That’s the situation. Tomorrow, some effects on men and women.
1 Comment
09/21/2009 at 11:33 pm
I don’t know that breast exposure is so new. When I was in high school in the 80’s, girls flashed guys at rock concerts. College was slightly worse. Stripping, as a profession, has been around a long time. Playboy was around before I was born. I don’t know what’s going on in the college set these days except that occasionally I’ll hear about some live art project where someone is having sex or masturbating in public as some sort of exhibit, and, if you aren’t sexually active, they think something is wrong with you. From a cultural standpoint, one hears about the occasional teacher having sexual relations with preteen or young teenaged students. Or the college professor who has written a paper that states children are sexual beings and are actually the ones who entice adults into sexual situations, denying that such activity is child abuse and permanently damaging to a human being. That stuff bothers me far more than topless beaches in Europe. Maybe they are connected, but I’m not so sure that there isn’t something more intentional at work.