The Worship of Enormous Breasts is a 20th Century Phenomenon

If you were to take a look around you no matter where you are at right now you would probably call me a liar, a fool and possibly even a knee-biter were I tell you that it has only been a little over half a century that large breasts on a woman were considered the epitome of sexual attractiveness. The fact is that a hundred years ago today's bombshells with their thin bodies, and mammaries that enter a door before they enter a door would have been considered both maternal and manly. Manly in the sense of having a butt like a guy. The large breasts, on the other hand, would have been considered suitable for becoming a wet nurse, but certainly not for becoming a sex symbol.

There used to be a saying on high school campuses across the nation, though I seriously doubt it has been heard very often in the last twenty years or so, that, in reference to a girl's breasts, anything more than a handful is a waste. It sounds exactly like the kind of thing that a high school kid would come up with, right? Surprise, surprise, but what any high school male who ever said that doubtlessly never knew is that the sentiment expressed toward appreciation of the less robustly breasted female actually was coined by no less a personage than a Roman poet name Martial.

Martial actually did a write a poem in which he said that the most absolute perfect size for breasts would be one that did not overflow the palm. Lest you think that Martial was alone in assessment, Roman women actually wore something called a fascia which was a kind of anti-Wonderbra. The fascia was intended not just to support the breasts of Roman women, but also to press it flat. One can well wonder what might happen if Pamela Anderson came across a time machine on those rare occasions when she's not making homemade sex tapes with rock stars and was transported back to the time of Martial. Would her distinctly repellent bags of saline or silicone or rats or whatever they are made up explode when she was forced to put on a fascia? The world may never know.