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Started by Padma, May 18, 2011, 03:48:21 PM

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Padma

A serious question: for those of you who are A or B cup in a bra, why do you wear one? I can think of a number of reasons why people might wear them:

Protection for sore/growing/sensitive boobs?
Support (necessary now or preemptive?)
Symbol of womanliness?
Enjoy wearing them?

Do any of these reasons, or all of them, or other reasons entirely, apply to you? I'm really curious, as I'm not clear what the point of them is except for bigger boobs, but then I don't have any yet so I have nothing to go on from personal experience :(.

Why do you wear them, if you wear them?
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JungianZoe

All of the above... after 5 months HRT, I'm barely 1/2 to 3/4 of an A cup ( :icon_tears: ) so it kind of helps me feel better about my appearance to wear a padded and slightly stuffed A.  But my breasts are still a tiny bit sore (I've never had the really bad pain everyone talks about) and so the bra helps with padding when I accidentally hit them.  And sometimes, if I jump, they hurt a little bit, and the support is quite welcome.

I recently just put on 25 pounds to get back to a normal body weight, but it all went to my belly and nothing to my breasts.  The bra helps balance my proportions out since I have nothing up top otherwise.
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Amy1177

I don't have any boobs but I like to wear one just because it is part of feeling feminine.  My wife has bigger boobs but she hates wearing one and will only wear one when we have to go out.
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Tamaki

I just became an A cup but the extra weight is helping that. I wear a sports bra to give the girls a little protection, stop them from giggling which hurts and to hide them a little bit. With the extra weight they just look like moobs so I don't worry too much about hiding them. What surprised me was how quickly I started feeling naked and exposed without a bra.
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Megan Joanne

Makes me feel more confident about myself, I guess a symbol of womanliness, that I have enough boob size to warrant wearing a bra. I also like the way they look, the bra itself as well as when its on me. Sure sometimes they get uncomfortable wearing them if on too long, but still prefer than not having one on.  When I first  started wearing a bra so many years ago, it felt like I was being embraced, in a nice way, I gained comfort actually in wearing a bra, just feels right to me. At home, sometimes I wear one, sometimes I don't, depends on my mood I guess, if I'm just lazying around, then no bra. If out, whether shopping or at work, yes, a bra all the time. Sure sometimes women go without a lot, but I'm not looking to gain that kind of attention, boobs jiggling about freely, nipples saying hey look at me, sure I enjoy a little bit of bounce as well as some attention once in a while, but I don't want to look sloppy, especially not at work, just not a profession thing to do, braless boobs would be a distraction. Oh, plus wearing a bra makes me look like I have fuller, larger breasts than I actually do, so again, more confidence.
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Caith

I wear one to make them appear better shaped than they really are. 
Also, a push-up works wonders for cleavage.  ;)
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Janet_Girl

One word.  Cleavage.  Enough said.
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Ashlok

It helps with my confidence and it makes me just feel plain better about myself! I have been off hormones for 3 weeks now because I am getting an Orchiectomy next week. Mine appear to have shrunk not being on hormones and its getting to me. But my wife/partner has been telling that i will have what she calls a "boob-plosion" once i go back on hormones.  :D
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Padma

Thanks for the replies, and I hope no-one found the question iffy. This all helps me to make sense of the bra, fingers crossed I'll need one one day :).
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Melody Maia

You are mistaken if you think a B cup doesn't need support. Believe me it does. I remember running down the stairs when they started to grow to that size, feeling them bounce up and down and thinking "Owww, that hurts!" A sports bra is also now essential for the same reason. Another thing it does it hide your nipples away. They do tend to pop out at the most inopportune moments. The nipples also need to be protected from chaffing.
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Padma

Okay, ouch! All this makes sense.
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Padma

I just didn't appreciate the gravity of the situation.

;D
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rejennyrated

Quote from: Helena on May 19, 2011, 02:08:07 AM
Yeah, even little boobs need support because they'll sag over time.
Says the girl with the biggest boobs I've ever seen grow after just 9 months...  :o

besides - like me you don't really fit Padma's size profile to be in this thread miss "C cup all on your own!" ;)

Mind you she is exactly right though! Going braless sounds very cool until you do it and try running for a bus! OWWW!  :o
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Padma

You know, looking back at my original post, the tone is kind of iffy - I am genuinely curious about bras, but underneath that was just frustrated boob envy, I'm annoyed with Dr Perring for making me wait >:(. Oh well, I can enjoy all your boobs vicariously (if that's okay with you...:))
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Cindy

And of course they are great things to shop for. So many colours and styles and it is really funny to see guys terrified of being in a lingerie shop >:-). And Helena 9 months ::) ::) ::)

You have triggered world wide jealousy

Cindy
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rejennyrated

Quote from: Padma on May 19, 2011, 03:34:47 AM
You know, looking back at my original post, the tone is kind of iffy - I am genuinely curious about bras, but underneath that was just frustrated boob envy, I'm annoyed with Dr Perring for making me wait >:(. Oh well, I can enjoy all your boobs vicariously (if that's okay with you...:))
Thing is my good personal friend Dr Russell Reid only narrowly escaped severe penalties for being too allegedly free and easy with the sweeties. Dr Michael Perring is also a friend of Russell's and has learned from what happened, namely that it is a small world, and what you do in it with the best of intentions, can sometime backfire on you if you get a cabal of one or two difficult patients and a handful of other doctors who don't approve of your clinical practice.

For this reason he HAS to be able to show that he has abided by the SOC guidelines which call for a  wait of 3 months before HRT is started, during which time the patient is supposed to be counseled about their gender issues so that informed consent really can be demonstrated to have been "informed".

Ie they were given all the information needed to make the decision on a truly informed basis.

If you had been able to demonstrate that you had had some counseling from someone else prior to coming to see him I feel sure you would have gotten what you wanted.

Be patient Padma. You will get there. After all you've waited for several decades to get to this point. Hopefully a couple more months won't harm you too much.
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Maddi

Now, I'm not on HRT or anything, but when I had all my stuff I wore it to feel more feminine. I physically didn't need one, so it was for aesthetics and my peace of mind.

@Janet- Cleavage? Whats that? lol jk.  ;D
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Padma

True, Jenny - I'm not saying I can't deal with my impatience, I'm just saying I have it :).

The thing is, I may have been waiting several decades, but I've only really experienced anything like full-on dysphoria over the last couple of months, and that's what's giving me this new sense of urgency for change. For the moment, all I can do on my own is fight the tide of male hair with cold steel, but Dr Perring said he'd probably be happy to recommend finasteride sooner than the HRT, so that's a start.

But I'm taking myself very seriously, and want to be met with that. And at the same time, it's obvious to me that he and I have only met twice, and that the relationship upon which he would feel confident to make medication recommendations needs more time to develop. So I'll keep my inner tanty in a box :).

(All this is playing hell with my English - I started sentences with and, but, and so... channelling my inner adolescent...)*

*No, I don't really care, I think it's funny, given that I'm a proof-reader!
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pebbles

a few reasons...
1:even while mine are A-cups if I do somthing active, Like dance like a maniac, Or go for a jog, Or race down stairs then they still bounce and tug painfully.

2: My nipples grew ALOT more than my actual breasts also my boobs are kinda pointy, I got a slightly inappropriate comment from a friend when a cool summer breeze blew past me. *Poink* -.-

3: As my boobs are kinda small and pointy what helps with both of these problems is just a small amount of padding, It evens out the shape obfuscates the big nipples, and gives them a degree more volume, To wear padding you need a bra.
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Lisbeth

I didn't see two other reasons. So your nipples don't scrape on the inside of your clothes. So people can't see your nipples through you clothing.
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