While reading through the recent thread on binding and the mention of tissue breakdown it got me thinking ... is a breakdown of that particular tissue really bad, health-wise? Speaking from the perspective that I would say a large majority of us don't intend to use those flabs for the nature-intended purpose. I've read some studies that seem to have made a correlation to the number of years a woman wears a bra - and just wearing the bra in and of itself could be leading to the proliferation of breast cancer and damaging the issue in a way because in nature (for instance, in tribal situations) women let their breasts just hang and nature and age just did their thing to basically create what heavy binding does, only in a longer amount of time. Does that make sense? So while very restrictive binding is certainly not healthy in some respects (mainly structural, skin, lungs, breathing, etc.) I'm not convinced it's unhealthy as far as the skin flabs are concerned. I guess this mostly applies to guys who either aren't or are a long way from surgery. I know about the whole surgery and condition of the flabs issue, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm just talking about long term health of that tissue if you're not getting surgery or it's a long way off. Thoughts? Or anyone know of any legit medical evidence?
