I'm gay. I don't understand boobs. So here's a challenge to you straight guys: what makes tits so special?

The short answer: The straight mail brain is hard wired to like them. There's nothing that can be said that'll just make you think "oh yeah, now I get it".

The long answer: It's a matter of natural selection. Throughout history women that were more capable of producing and feeding offspring were more sexually attractive since preferences for less "capable" women were bread out. The same thing goes for a lot of preferences. Specifically with regard to sexuality straight men prefer women with feminine figures; women prefer men with more masculine figures. Additionally most people are hard-wired to prefer fatty, salty and sweet foods as they provide more calories that are harder to come by to ancient nomadic peoples. So you could ask what's the bid deal about bacon cheeseburgers or giant chocolate cakes? People just "get it" because they are wired to. But try explaining that to a robot or alien.

As for when it comes to being gay, my best theory is it's nature's population control. Humans naturally just want to fuck so if you just flip someone's preference to people they can't have children with it'll slow down population growth. Whereas simply reducing sex drive would affect everyone and eventually breed out the genes responsible for low drive. There have been studies involving rats where when they were overpopulated the rate of homosexuality rises which leads me to think this. This would also suggest heavy population centers like metropolitan cities have a higher gay population. If I recall correctly the average rate is about 5-10% of the population is gay.

But yeah, for straight guys seeing tits is pretty much shuts down the higher functioning part of our brains and all we can think is "yeah! titties!" especially if they are on someone that has other traits associated with fertility, not something we chose to like any more than someone choosing to be gay which is a bullshit argument we've all heard before from religious extremists.

I can spend all day describing what makes them amazing but that won't sound any different than explaining why a circle is round.

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