Why it’s NOT necessary to wear a bra

unless you want your nipples to show up you need a bra

period

I happen to love my bra, especially my padded bra. I just think it's no one business but my own for people to know I am cold or turned on.

Plus it keeps your chest warm.... just saying!

"In Somalia wearing the wrong bra may get you whipped by Islamic crazies".

(-it can always get worse!-)

http://current.com/1mtbi4c

They are so uncomfortable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i only put one on if company is coming over or i i have to go out in public. call first people! or its a national geographic preview for you! these DDD mamas have breastfed to children. titanium couldn't hold 'em up.

Hey, take a look at pictures of women from the early 1900's. Look at them at twenty, thirty, forty years old . then tell me why I shouldn't wear a bra.
At 30 years old those ladies breasts are sagging down to their waists. No way I'm I letting that happen.
You find yourself a good looking but supportive bra and you'll look good for a long time.
Olga used to make great minimizers in a lot of odd sizes, with excellent support yet looked great under a nice t-shirt. If you were born wiyh nice breasts take care of them and you and your significant other will be glad you did.

Never mind Penthouse & Hustler magazine. Just click on to Current.com.

I wear a bra for the same reason why guys generally wear underwear when wearing jeans...things rub, not in a good way.....and friction is often not a good thing outside of the bedroom.

I think that if you have a "C" or bigger your have to wear a bra. Women with big boobs get horrible back pains if they are wearing a bra that doesn't fit right. Imagine if they weren't wearing a bra at all.

if i'm wearing a black normal t-shirt, which I do quite often if I'm just running around doing errands. I don't wear a bra, just a tight tank top...you can't even tell :)

a good bra is hard to find. Especially for pregnant women.

Actually , it has been my experience that if you have a "C" or above , gravity will eventually prevail . Breast feeding is also a big factor . In many cultures this is expected , and seen as life as it should be . In this culture we are pressured to look unnatural and fake . Not unlike the twisted perception of the anorexic who sees herself as fat , however thin she is . I do not believe it is good for the circulation . Although I have found a little support during athletic endeavors to be helpful . Sports bras are not so bad .

The idea that brassieres are some kind of oppressive device is idiotic. The more bra knowledge, the better and breast-able the world will be. Far too few women, for instance, seem to be aware of sports bras...one of the supreme 20th century inventions. They're only oppressive if it's a bad fit.

So guys have been labeled sexist all this time for wanting to get women out of their clothing and now the truth comes out: guys were just trying to prevent breast cancer. Something in our primitive man-brains just intuitively knew that bras are unnatural.

Seriously, though:
Civilizations all over the world lasted a long time before the bra, I wonder how they managed. Its good to see that women have options. Women should do as they please with their bodies, and ta-ta's, and everything else that is theirs and nobody else's.

sports bras here, and only sometimes.

i am constantly asking my smaller breasted friends why they always wear bras, and have never gotten a real intelligent answer. women just think they have to.

*le sigh*

I'll let cracked.com take care of this one.

"Mary Phelps Jacob (1892-1970)

Invented:

The bra.

Lived to See:

"Bra-burning" feminists calling it a symbol of oppression.

EUREKA!

In 1910, Mary Phelps Jacob was struggling with her outfit, specifically with the whalebone corset that was showing through her sheer evening gown and out over the neckline. Picture a life jacket under a one-piece bathing suit and you can see just how not hot this must have been.

Displaying oodles of pluck and daring that's even more exciting once we realize she was probably topless at this point, Jacob refused to wear the corset, demanded that her chaperon bring her two handkerchiefs, a needle and some thread, and stitched together what she would call the "backless brassiere." Her friends gathered around her, inquiring excitedly about the new accessory, and soon all the ladies were back in the dressing room, giggling, tearing off their corsets and... oh, wait, that was actually a scene from Naughty Debutantes on Cinemax. Sorry.

In 1914, after years of selling the garments to her circle of friends, Jacob applied for and received the first-ever patent in the newly created category of "brassieres." The way women's boobs dressed changed forever.

Considering how incredibly freeing the brassiere she created was in comparison with the corset, Jacob must have been shocked that, by the time of her death in 1970, it was seen by feminists as a symbol of oppression, with a burning bra the classic image of women's liberation protests (and it was just an image, the actual burning of the bras never happened).

Even without the actual flames, the bra itself was socially charged, with the choice of whether to wear one being one of the simplest and most visible ways (well, depending on the temperature) that a woman could display her political views.

Knowing Mary Phelps Jacob (who lived one of the most interesting lives ever) been born 60 years later, there is no doubt that she would have gone braless. Hell, she most likely considered it back in 1910, except that it was probably a capital offense at that point."

Here's the article if you want to read it.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17186_p2.html

well, I'm glad a read this, if my friends give me crap i can now defend myself beside just saying its more comfortable.

Going braless is super awesome, unless it's hot. And wearing a bra looks much more flattering and can help with posture, too.

WOW !

thank goodness my bra was starting to chafe... and people were looking at me funny.

we need to find away to lessen this stigma of bra free and female toplessness... they are boobies!... not something disgusting to be scoffed at or arrested for showing.

i dont mind wearing a bra. it's nice to go to sleep without one but I prefer the way I look with one on. I'm not a large-chested person, either, so that is not why i say it.

Embarrassing but..
over the years i have had breast exams and they have been lumpy.
I have had all these problems clear up since i am now mostly vegan and gluten free.. very clear breast exam..
this diet has made me much younger feeling and in appearance...
helps me and the environment.

boobies

"...often considered inappropriate or kind of breaking the social rules of dress code. "

In other words it makes strange men stare and grin vacantly. Personally I view this as a good thing, but I am a strange man.

This article is full of other stupid science too.

It makes some other stupid points. Bras that fit badly cause discomfort for one (duh). But the big one and what seems to e the impetus for the article is a study that states that women who wear bras 24 hours a day have a higher breast cancer rate. What it does not say is that women who wear bras 24 hours a day generally do so because they have much larger than average breasts to the point they need to keep their doggies corralled at all times. That a woman with more breast tissue would have a higher probability of cancer is completely reasonable.

This is an all around bad article.

Underclothes help to keep over-clothes sweat and body-odour free. One of the main reasons for a bra in clothing is to make a woman's figure look a certain way. In reality ALL clothes are unnecessary, but if you ARE going to wear them there's no reason you should be a stupid blob about it. This article is pointless.

i never understood why they wear bras... undies too. i mean we wear pants, isn't that enough

According to a survey 90% of people don't know y this was posted

Its not necessary to always wear a bra, but it is necessary to wear a bra most of the time or else you will have ridiculously saggy boobs before you are 30. I know this from several saggy boobed "always braless" friends.

This is the kind of study I can support.