Why do women wear bras?

Yeah, like, why do they?! Just wondering.

I know there's likely more than one motive, but vote for your primary reason.

To keep the breasts from sagging 13
To keep the breasts from jiggling during movement 19
To better hide the nipples 9
To enhance the appearance of the chest in form or size 6
Because society / because most other women do 8
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  • NashamaTheWeird

    All of these.

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  • SIYB

    There's a reason why women in tribes have tiddies down to the floor. I wear a bra so I don't have to deal with saggy boobs

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    • Hmm, I didn't know they could end up sagging that low if they go unsupported for too long. Some research even suggests a slight opposite correlation on this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2092072 -- The sagginess of these tribeswomen is more likely due to the genetics of those particular tribes, and also to the fact that they have many kids.

      Better confirm with your doc or some pro about that.

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  • Sagging. Old ladies who’s boobs drag on the floor probably didn’t wear bras as kids.

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    • MrDexter

      Kids don't have boob's though

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      • Um, so middle and high schoolers aren’t kids?? Lol!

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        • edwininthematrix

          where do you draw the line between kid and adult though. sometimes the law says 18 and other times 21. most girls physically stop growing around 17 and most guys around 23. there is research proving that people's brains do not mature fully until they're 25. and to top it all off, there are plenty of little girls like 11 years old and barely out of elementary school that are growing boobs.

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        • MrDexter

          No those are teenagers and tweens. Children haven't hit puberty. A 3 year old wouldn't be wearing one. That's nonsense.

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          • True. But technically speaking, they are just more developed children.

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            • Childhood stops at puberty. Then begins adolescence, right until adulthood.

              "Kids" is just an informal term adults call young people by. And it usually includes both children and teenagers. When old people say "kids these days," they sometimes even include young adults.

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  • pendletonGibbs

    Primarily because of the jiggling, I'd assume.

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  • wigz

    I would prefer not to but I was starting to get some tit pain so I had to start wearing one again. I'm pretty pissed about that. I need to if I am doing a lot of physical activity and I would wear one to be polite if the situation called for it (conservative type shit).

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    • Part-time wearer.. sounds like a good compromise.

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  • Pumpurrnickel

    Literally all of these reasons.

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  • EnglishLad

    Pretty sure women and girls don't do it for comfort purposes, especially if it's an underwired bra. My guess is that younger women do it to stop them jiggling around, and older ladies do it to stop their boobs from sagging.

    Of course, the flip side of this is that there must also be women and girls who would happily go braless if their tits weren't sexualised. Tits are literally lumps of fat on a woman's chest. Dunno why so many guys make a big hoo-hah over them...

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    • "Tits are literally lumps of fat on a woman's chest."

      Haha, sure when you say it like that.. Though it's not just fat, there's also a gland or something.

      Truth is, I wouldn't go all hoo-hah as you say if I came across tits. How do I know that? Because I did come across, and interacted with, braless women or ones with plunging necklines, and never got a hard-on because of it. Not because I'm not attracted to them, but because those aren't the moments where sexualization happens.

      Most of the sexualization to me happens in quieter moments, or when I'm sitting there and plainly admiring and focusing on the woman, like a stripper or one who's clearly on display. But in everyday interactions or when seeing passersby, it doesn't really happen, unless I'm flirting with the chick in question, and I'll probably be taking her to my place or boning her in a while, then I'll sexualize the hell out of her and her tits and can get real horny on her while escalating things.

      Now with that said, although I don't necessarily get aroused by them in everyday interactions, they still play their part in a woman's overall attractiveness, and add hotness points. Like when I see her with her boobs in a conspicuous way, I'm like, "Damn she's hot," and try to hit on her if the situation allows and see if she's interested and so on.

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  • strangethingshappen

    Because its obvious- Tits look more attractive in a bra and feel far more comfortable.

    Seen the odd lass not in a bra and looks bad.

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    • I guess it depends on the woman, cause some pull off braless quite nicely, including older ones: https://goo.gl/7Qfj8g -- https://goo.gl/1Z8bNF

      Though they gotta be comfortable with the nip thing.

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  • bogbrush

    It's annoying to feel them jiggling on my knees.

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    • Knees? Damn..

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  • As a Woman, I have absolutely no idea

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    • It's probably #5 then.

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  • BleedingPain

    My boobs hurt when they jiggle from normal activities like runing or going down stairs. Bras help boobies fit into clothing that was made for a mannequin (with standardized sizes) and not a real human (with varying sizes).

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    • Makes sense.

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  • nikkiclaire

    I have tiny boobs so I usually don't wear a bra. Plus I like the way my shirts feel on my nipples when I don't.

    Really the only time I do is at Church.

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    • Yeah you don't want to get that pastor too distracted.

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  • Nickvey

    i know why, but im a guy and the women wont tell you the truth so , im going to, they hold the tits up. when they look in they mirror at themselves , they appear as younger women than they really are. So long as one woman wears a bra they are all going to, because its a competitive world and every woman competes with every other woman. Except for the ones that removed themselves from the playing field , the braless woman.

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    • Interesting take. The funny thing is, I find tits that are a little saggy more attractive than perfectly held up melons. So if they're doing it for the 'firm appearance', they're doing wrong in my view.

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      • Nickvey

        i still go fucking ape shit over the ones that pass the pencil test. i know im not supposed to like naked teens because of the perversion myth but i do. My first wife had tits like that for at least the first sixth months we dated. 40 years later my memory still gets my penis erect. Wife Two got implants , not for me of course, she needed a rack to shop for her next husband. As predicted she needed that divorse within the year. LOL she needed a nose job worse and some fix for those crazy bulging eyes

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        • Haha I'm more into those who fail the test, but not by too much.

          As to wife #2, damn, I hope she didn't get those jobs on your dime, cause that would be the ultimate insult to injury.

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  • So sometimes you have three reasons to wear it, and other times you have none? That's a very unstable relation you got there with your bra!

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