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Covering women's nipples is common and you can see the logic - nipples are for sex! They make a woman horny if you touch them. I'm wondering if this indicates something about cultures that tend to show bare breasts, if it's correlated with different approaches to female sexuality

Aella

@Aella_Girl

As in - is it possible that viewing female nipples as nbd means they also didn't view female nipples as erogenous zones? Does this indicate some general lack of interest in female sexual pleasure overall?

11:51 PM · May 18, 2020

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Nipples are also for feeding babies, and it's quite possible the sensations they are capable of are caused by the need for a milk letdown reflex than sexual pleasure. Which doesn't preclude using them during sex, but it's not the primary function.

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I’ve wondered this too! I’d be surprised if nipples were a neutral erogenous zone in a physical touch sense - that should be built into the hardware right? But I could def see a change at the software (mental/visual) level due to input saturation and absence of taboo.

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Isn't just as possible to be the normalization of sex or pleasure for women rather than the lack of intrest? Besides can't men also feel pleasure for their nipples?

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In places/times without birth control, could it also affect to de-sexualize breasts that they are constantly at use for breastfeeding? (Sex wouldn’t be nearly the first association.) In cold areas where weather forces you to cover yourself anyway that would negate the effect.

Maren Kahnert

@marenkahnert

May 19, 2020

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@Aella_Girl

Maybe I'm wrong but I suppose that not all women get horny by touching their nipples. It could be more about touching an intimate zone that makes it special ...and which zones are intimate seems to be cultural defined to a certain degree.

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In a lot of places in Africa and the Pacific female waist to calf is highly eroticized. Thus you could run around topless but you must cover waist to calf