What are the aesthetics of breasts? Women often struggle with how they feel over the size, shape, firmness, and perkiness of their breasts, and feel pressure from the culture at large and from other women to conform to an aesthetic ideal.

These interviews with several women show the wide variety of feelings about breasts and how they inform women's self-images. One woman is humiliated by her small breasts, but others are pleased or proud; some women complain of sagging as they age, or resort to cosmetic surgery, but others don't mind or even find it a benefit.

Note especially the woman who sits topless next to her daughter, and describes how, when she took off her blouse to begin the interview, she was uncomfortable, but after a few minutes has begun to feel free and easy with her breasts uncovered.

Please watch the following video clip and answer the corresponding follow-up questions.

Breasts

1			Different women expressed pleasure, shame or indifference to having small breasts. Do you think, as one woman expressed, that large breasts are always more attractive?
2			How many of the women were comfortable taking off their tops? How many of them undressed partially, but not all the way? What do you think about this display of nudity?
3			One woman talked especially about sagging, both due to age and in general. Do you think the aesthetic of perkiness as expressed by these American women is a cross-cultural phenomenon, or would people from other cultures see sagging differently?