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Are your boobs really soft or are you just a little babyfat? - Hypothesis about boob firmness
All ideas about boob firmness here on Bratabase has confused me terribly. I think I just realized most women have not been groping a lot of boobs. And so they haven't the ability to compare different kinds of shape.
I've been told boobs are more firm if more glandular, and less firm if more fat. But in reality it isn't always so easy. So I try to outline how it has come to appear to me.
If a body is babyfat it means it's still firm underneath. They will look chubbier than they are but they will not really be fat. Touching these bodies they will feel softer.
It's the same with boobs. But boobs can be rock hard firm underneath that babyfat.
I like to think about it this way; Think about connective tissue in boobs as a "core". If that core is firm you can have quite a lot of fat around it without boobs actually becoming soft. It works just like babyfat on the body. You can be quite fat before it starts to become really soft.
Now; If you lack that core or if it's really scattered you get soft boobs. Because there's nothing there to hold boobs up.
Now; the other way to have softer boobs is having stretched/extra skin. The analogy still holds but the shape results is different. If that core is big some extra skin will give "tennis ball in a sock". If that "core" is really small or scattered boobs will appear "empty".
Combine this and you have a myriad of boobs shapes, I would even go as far as saying some extra skin + some extra fat is the most common breast formula. Because there are much more women above the age of 25 than beneath it and because most girls are also dieting, which will usually give that result.
Ok, now bra fitting; The fatter the boobs the more visible cutting in. But as long as they are not very fat they won't really spill. They still hold together in one piece.
If your boobs just have some extra skin some mild compression will make them appear firmer in a bra. And we will be fooled thinking "those boobs must be really firm". And when we see babyfat boobs we often think of them as soft because they quad so easily. But it's an illusion.
In reality the fatter boobs will be more stable on their own than the boobs with extra skin. The extra skin boobs will have that core flipping around inside boobs.
All this confused me for years. Because my experiences with touching boobs and how it appeared in bra fitting did disconnect. (I sometimes wonder if any of the other bisexual girls here has also encountered this confusion?)
Also the crazy idea with the "pen test".
Boobs can still be super firm and point down. Boobs can still be quite fat and point down.
But the minute they get extra skin is when they will become less firm.
All this has confused me since my boobs always would hang down and look rather flat. And feel rather soft compared to other girls. But in a bra my goodness the trouble!! And I could go braless. Because boobs hanging firmly against the body is quite comfortable.
And now that my boobs have sagged just a little I still don't really spill out as long as I don't fit myself very odd (in too projected cups). And when pushing boobs towards my chest they blow up like balloons. And so in the right bra they appear firmer than when I was younger. But without a bra they still want to lay flat against my chest. And now they are slightly flatter.
Now extended theory:
Of course this will also end up very differently with a narrow root vs wide root. The more shallow and wide, the less obvious the sagging will appear, instead they seem to sag "horizontally". Which makes perfect sense since that's the direction that are biggest on them. The more narrow rooted and deep the more prone to tennisball in a sock. At least that's how it now appears to me.
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Interesting. I don't touch boobs, so this explains things, like how I only get the quad boobs if the bra is many sizes too small. Otherwise it just feels confusingly tight and hard to breath.
Just the other day I did my monthly check up and made an observation about firmness: After wearing better bras I have more firm tissue near the surface. It was also more in the nipple area of my larger breast than the other one, which made me think that padding the smaller breast might be useful to make them more balanced even somewhat long term.
I totally agree about only having experience with my own breasts. I sometimes have found myself expecting other people's breasts to behave a certain way in a bra based on my own experiences, but I've come to realise that people have them react quite differently.
Something that I have noticed though is that if I grope my breasts, they feel a lot softer than if I'm pushing them towards my chest wall. I've got a layer of fat on the outside and one big giant ball of glandular tissue underneath. A soft touch will just give you the feeling of the fat, but if you really dig your hands in, or press my breasts in a direction where they have a little resistance, you can feel the tissue underneath.
Despite my reasonably firm breast tissue, my root is plain not big enough to support my breasts, so I still get a bit of tennis ball in a sock without a bra. I think that you're right about the root playing a big role in breast shape without a bra. Someone who has a relatively large root will be more likely to have breasts which support themselves fairly well even if their tissue isn't as firm. Someone who has a small root will probably have breasts which hang down without a bra, regardless of how firm they are.
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