Breasts

Woman With Rare Condition Has Armpits That Leak Milk

Doctors in the Philippines reported an unusual case of ectopic breast tissue in a recent report.

A Woman’s Breast Implants Saved Her Life From a Gunshot, Doctors Say

Doctors say a woman’s silicone breast implants deflected what could have been a fatal bullet, stopping it from reaching her heart. Amazingly, this is not the first time such a thing has been reported in the medical literature. The miraculous bullet deflection was detailed earlier this month in a report published in the journal Plastic…

Facebook Has One Big Boob Problem

Dozens of activists plopped a giant inflatable boob outside Facebook’s London headquarters to protest the platform’s restrictions on depictions of nudity, the BBC reported Friday. They were led by Vicky Martin, a medical tattoo artist who specializes in recreating the appearance of areolas on those who have undergone a mastectomy as part of breast cancer…

Zoo Sues Producers For ‘Traumatizing’ Raccoon With An ‘Erotic Video’ Shoot

Employees at a petting zoo in Moscow are livid over the treatment it says its raccoon received during a video shoot. The zoo’s representatives claim that Tomas the raccoon was rented to a production company for a commercial shoot that turned out to be an “erotic video” and now Tomas is “traumatized.” Animals Aren’t Toys…

Some Women Could Have Less Reason To Dread That Annual ObGyn Exam  

Ladies, you may find that your gynecologist is a bit more hands-off after you put on that little cloth johnny for your annual exam. Recent recommendations from the American Cancer Society and the American College of Physicians that challenge the status quo for breast, cervical, and pelvic exams are starting to reshape routine women’s reproductive…

Jason Bittel is obsessed with what breasts can do, and he’s not ashamed to let everyone know it. Writing in Slate, he raves about the amazing flexibility of milk-making in humans, the so-high-fat-it’s-practically-cheese milk of marine mammals, and all sorts of nipples. Check it out! Contact the author at [email protected].

How to Build a Breast Pump That Doesn’t Suck

On Sunday afternoon 10 harried but happy teams of hackers shared their inventions in Shark Tank-style five-minute presentations. The goal? To reinvent a clunky necessity of modern parenting: the breast pump. Engineers, healthcare workers, students, moms, and lots of babies gathered at the MIT Media Lab hackathon to tackle this sticky problem. The vibe was…

Breasts Age Faster Than the Rest of a Woman’s Body

The breasts of women seem to age more quickly than the rest of their body, according to new research which uses DNA analysis of tissue and blood to measure the rate of cell decline. As we age, the chemical signature of our DNA changes subtly, with genes becoming more or less methylated (that is, they…

Texan lady tries to stop breastfeeding mom, gets schooled on video

Breastfeeding! It’s how babies eat. But some people don’t like this idea of babies eating in public. After all, adults don’t eat in public, do they? Oh, right, turns out everyone is allowed to eat in public except for babies on the boob. One mom had enough of this garbage and laid waste to a…

Squeezing Boobs Can Stop Breast Cancer

If you need another excuse to show some love to the mammaries, scientists have found that squeezing breasts can actually prevent malignant breast cells from triggering cancer. Yes, squeezing. Guys and gals, do your part in stopping cancer, please. Gautham Venugopalan, a lead member on the research team from the University of California in Berkeley,…

Breast Washer Right Here! Get Your Breast Washer!

This is, apparently, a machine for massaging and/or washing breasts. And also possible proof that SkyMall started as a 1930s catalog of erotic housewares. Imagine being the model for this uncomfortable picture, which came from a French ad from the 1930s. How effective could this ad have possibly been? Because if you bought a boob…

Your Double-Ds Could be Putting Your Health in Danger

Some women and girls—and certainly many men—will be happy to hear that women’s breasts today are on average larger than they’ve ever been before. But this isn’t necessarily good news. Along with bra size (in just a generation, the average cup-size has gone from 34B to 36C!), women’s waist lines are also growing—and that’s troubling…

Handcrafted Breastfeeding and Birthing Dolls Are Adorably, Oddly NSFW

MamAmor Dolls are the umbilical-intact, placenta-producing creation of Adriana Guerra, a doula in Canada, with three home-birthed children of her own. The dolls ($130-$145) can be used as educational tools “to demonstrate normal, natural birth, breastfeeding and bonding,” and also to help prepare sibling for the arrival of a new baby. MamAmor Dolls are intended…

And now, for reasons inexplicable, breasts cosplaying as Freddy Krueger and Pinhead (NSFW)

I have no idea why this is happening, but the proprietors of the bosomy (and NSFW) cosplaying blog Tit Thinks It’s People have decided to transform their tracts of land into horror characters. The results eschew sexiness altogether, which is kind of the point, as you shouldn’t be having handsome dreams about Pinhead in the…

Study: irresolute rakes attracted to prominent front porches

Sociological research! Sometimes it involves staring at women’s chests. Indeed, a recent study of 128 heterosexual Polish men has divined that fellows who are less interested in long-term relationships are more enthused by larger breasts. Participants were asked to rate 15 pictures of bosoms of varying sizes from three different angles (“front view, oblique view,…

The clandestine art of Thai breast-slapping

Meet Khemmikka Na Songkhla, the world’s foremost practitioner of the breast-slapping, a particularly vigorous alternative treatment that involves bosoms and a steady wrist. The government-approved beautician has been practicing this form of aggressive massage for quite some time. In fact, the Thai Health Ministry launched what is probably the world’s only study on breast-slapping after…

Yes. Paintballing Is Bad for Your Breast Implants

Last weekend, a 26-year-old woman decided to go paintballing with some friends. She got shot. It happens. But while in routine surgery the following Monday, it was found that the fire she took tore through damaged one of her breast implants. What?? I mean, I suppose it shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Paintballs can move at…

Colorado Woman Flips the Script and Molests TSA Agent

61-year-old Yukari Mihamae was flying home to Colorado on Thursday. She walks through Terminal 4 at Arizona’s Sky Harbor Airport, and, as expected, is faced with the TSA. But its Mihamae that did the groping this time. According to the Daily Mail: Police said she is accused of grabbing the agent’s ‘left breast through her…

You Can Buy Breast Milk Icecream in London For $22 a Bowl

We’ve seen cheese made from breast milk, but icecream? That’s a little too close to home for me. If the thought of mother’s milk appeals to you, you can hotfoot it to the Icecreamists parlor in London’s Covent Garden, which is selling the Baby Gaga bowl of icecream for £14 ($22). https://gizmodo.com/would-you-eat-this-human-cheese-made-from-human-breast-5740694 Each donor is…

Woman Suing Federal Government After TSA Screeners Exposed Her Breasts to Entire Airport (And Asked for Video)

Listen, we know the TSA’s been unpopular lately. But are they really so bad? What about this time a TSA screener pulled down a woman’s blouse while frisking her? And then laughed about it? Yes. Yes, they are that bad. https://gizmodo.com/one-hundred-naked-citizens-one-hundred-leaked-body-sca-5690749 The incident occurred during the spring of 2008 at Corpus Christi airport, and has…