This may be one of our breast subjects yet! We are just giving you more fun facts to help inform and educate everyone here on AAN. So here are a dozen facts about “the girls”.

  1. Nipple stimulation equals a closer bond with your sexual partner. Or at least that’s what a 2012 study suggests! The study aimed to find exactly why men are attracted to breasts, and the answer they found is that it’s a partial result of evolution. In that men have learned that by stimulating a woman’s nipple, the woman is then more inclined to feel attracted and connected to her partner physically.
  2. Some women can achieve orgasm from nipple stimulation alone. In a 2009 study, 29% of the 213 women studied had achieved orgasm from nipple stimulation alone. That’s because women’s brains process genital and nipple stimulation in the same exact way.
  3. There’s a champagne glass in London that’s shaped after Kate Moss’ breast. The glasses exist at London’s 34 Restaurant, and Kate’s signature is even on the bottom! Hmmm, drinking from a breast.
  4. Men have nipples and breasts because all fetuses are female at first. That’s right! Every fetus starts as female, and it isn’t until six weeks that testosterone starts to take hold. But even before that six-week mark, nipples and breasts are already part of the body.
  5. The largest bra size is an L, and the smallest is AAA (like the battery?). The L cup was only made available in 2011.
  6. Scientists seriously do not know why women have full breasts all the time. Primates have full breasts only when they’re breastfeeding, and then they quickly go back to normal. But human breasts appear full even when we’re not breastfeeding.
  7. Because bras weren’t yet invented, ancient Roman women would wrap bandages around themselves to keep their boobs in place while they worked out.
  8. Studies show that breastfeeding can have long-term benefits for moms, including lowering risks of heart disease and cancer. It also helps new moms lose that baby weight, and lowering the chances of postpartum depression.
  9. Corsets that cinched in the waist and popped up the breasts went out of style during World War I, when the army needed more steel and asked women to give them up.
  10. There are more than 4.5 million new bras produced every day.
  11. There are eight different types of nipples. The varieties include normal, flat, puffy, and inverted, but it’s all good.

And finally, here is the BIG one!

  1. . In case you were wondering, Annie Hawkins-Turner has the world’s largest natural breasts on record. They measure 70 inches around, 43 inches under, and would technically be supported in a 48V bra, if they made that size. To see a photo and read her amazing story go: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-natural-breasts

So now you know a little more about those wonderful breasts, boobs, tits, mammaries, melons or whatever you prefer to call them. Isn’t nature a wonderful thing that allows us to have such pleasures as those?

Info for this article from Erin La Rosa, BuzzFeed Staff