Girls, why are you "afraid" to touch your own tits in public?

[FunkyMonkee]

I used to work in a print shop, quite often doing hand work (stuffing envelopes, assembling calendars or magazines by hand, etc..) and, one day, someone made a big mistake on the folder and ran an entire job (a few thousand copies) putting the last fold in the wrong way. The only way to correct this is to unfold each one by hand and refold them the other way, also by hand. Since I'm VERY good and fast at doing hand work, they put me on this job and one of the bosses had his granddaughter, Megan (17, 18 years old), come in to help because it was a bit of a rush job.
As I'm also very good at finding faster and better ways to do hand work, I discovered a way to do this job a lot quicker so, I was getting it done twice as fast as she was and eventually showed her how to do it that way. The best way was to open it up to the middle of the flyer, put the open bit against your chest so the crease we want to straighten is in line with the center of your chest (your cleavage) and then just run the tip of your finger, or the back of your nail, up the fold on the outside and then it's just a matter of closing it the other way. I could get one done every 3 to 5 seconds! The way we were told was taking a good 20 seconds, or so, @. So, I showed my new method to Megan, who tried it once and then went back to the old slow way because, nearest I could tell, she was afraid to touch her tits.
There's been a number of other situations over the decades where I've noticed girls seem too avoid touching their tits in public, even tough it'd make their job much faster but, I can't recall what they are, at the moment.

[Anonymous]

I’m actually not too embarrassed. I have found myself touching my breast at times in public without even thinking about it, not sure why I do that, maybe for comfort? Then I realize what I’m doing, and I kind of scan my environment to check if anyone saw, and to my surprise no one notices! So it makes me feel less ashamed. It does kind of kill the mood when I get freaked out, I immediately stop. If people look I would be freaking out though, possibly because my mind would make me think too much about people judging me.

[Anonymous]

Because I don't want to sexualize myself to the general public. If I'm with my fiancé I sometimes touch my boobs, but that's because I'm trying to be sexual and I want him to be thinking of me in a sexual way. That's not how I want most people to view me or think about me. Consequently I don't do things like touch my boobs in public.

[FunkyMonkee]

But, it's not a sexual situation, it's just doing a job the fastest way it can be done.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she was creeper out that a guy who could almost be her grandfather was staring at her chest? I mean they say that women are more of emotional then logical, so if it doesn't feel right/safe they won't do it, while men will do anything they think to be logical, even if it bringw unnecessary risks (not this care but in general).

Maybe it also has something to do with the fact that normal men also don't touch their private parts in public, and we as society consider chest of women to be private and sexual.

[rachel776]

i do it sometimes but i wouldn't do it to fold envelopes

[FunkyMonkee]

People make jokes about guys touching their own tits, too but, if it's gonna help me get the job done better and faster, it won't bother ME at all!

[Starwitch23]

I don't want to give the wrong idea to a stranger.

[FunkyMonkee]

What would the wrong idea be?

[Anonymous]

She was just self conscious to do that in front of you. We’re afraid of giving the wrong idea to the wrong person.

[FunkyMonkee]

We weren't alone, there were others inn the shop besides us. It was a large room. You could probably play baseball in the room, except for the ceiling. And, I wasn't interested in getting my jollies out of it. I was only trying to show her a faster way to get the job done.

[Opinion Owner]

Then she was probably self conscious to do it in front of all of those other people as well. I’m not saying your intentions were bad, but she most likely didn’t want to draw attention to her breasts by doing it.

[FunkyMonkee]

I suppose, and especially with her having such huge ones. But, everybody already knows. It's not like they're invisible so, if you've found a better way to do this particular job, for instance, why not just do it that way instead of being afraid of doing it. As you said, no ill intentions towards her at all, I'm just trying to understand from MY POV why this is taboo. Like, if I was born with three arms and legs, you can best your ass that, as a drummer, I'm NOT gonna hide them, I'm gonna damn well make use of them to play better! If I could find a way to use my dick to play drums, I would! You've GOT these extra parts, there's not a DAMN THING you can do about it other than have them cut off or at least, in her case, having them reduced, which still wouldn't make a difference because, even A cup girls don't go there so, since you've got them and they CAN help, USE THEM! I just don't see what's wrong with that. Whether you touch them or not, people already KNOW you've got them and, most guys are GONNA look at them just about any time they can. It's okay to use them as a place to hold your cell phone or Kleenex, or money or pretty much anything else you wanna "hide" in there so, what's wrong with using them for this kind of work? Even if I HAD tits like hers, or tits of any size bigger than normal guy tits, I'd STILL do tthat job the same way.

[Mango-man]

I would say that for the same reason men don't use their reproductive organs as paperweights or to stirr a cup of tea. Because every body part has its purpose - legs are for walking, arms are for using tools, and breast, as the secondary sexual characteristic, were by evolution developed for attracting woman's mate and feeding her children (biologically speaking).

[FunkyMonkee]

@Mango-man Sexual attraction, yes, but not for feeding. Anyone can breast feed. Having bigger ones makes no difference.

[Mango-man]

I never suggested any influence of size on breastfeeding. I merely mentioned the biological purpose and female breasts - attraction of mate and feeding if offsprings, which are both intimate acts.

[FunkyMonkee]

@Mango-man I know you didn't, I'm just saying that people think that the reason girls have tits is ONLY for breastfeeding when flat-chested girls and even men can breast feed, too so, breastfeeding has nothing to do with why girls have them.

[Mango-man]

Though it is the MAIN reason why female breast are different from male breasts as the male lactation is quite uncommon. Also, mammals, humans included, developed breast for the sole purpose of feeding their offsprings.

[FunkyMonkee]

@Mango-man No it isn't. The main reason for girls to have tits is for sexual attraction. When we were walking around on all fours, it was a woman's ass that was pronounced and in men's faces and that's what we were attracted to, sexually. When we started to walk upright, her ass was no longer i9n his face anymore so, nature had her start growing tits which tend to look a LOT like ass cheeks! As for men lactatiing, all it tkkes is for the baby to suck on them a lot longer than for a woman, mostly because her body and hormones naturally tell her too start producing millk when she's about 4 to 6 months pregnant. Most mammals don't have mammalia most of their lives. From what I can recall, it's just humans, cows and possibly goats. All the others, to my knowledge are like women in that, they only "grow" when pregnant and the animals are nursing their young. Once that stops, their mammalia goes away until the next time they are needed.

[Mango-man]

The original purpose of breasts was to feed the offsprings for mammals. And most mammals have set periods of fertility, while humans are fertile almost 24/7. In humans breast do have SECONDARY role as the attractor of mate since full breasts suggest that female is healthy and has enough resources to invest precious energy into two lumps of fat that weight her down and put pressure on her spine. Also in humans, female's breasts also tend to grow during pregnancy.

[FunkyMonkee]

@Mango-man But, they DON'T need to be big in order to breast feed! There's NO other reason than sexual attraction for girls to have big tits from puberty onwards. I've had female dogs all my life and they DON'T get bigger tits every time they're fertile; ONLY when they get pregnant and have puppies. It's the same with all other mammals except cows, humans and probably goats. What suggests a woman is healthy is the excess body fat that causes her to have curves. For many years, skinny women were looked down upon because they were seen as not healthy enough to be breeders. ALL mammals get bigger tits when they get pregnant. That's because they are filling up with the milk their baby will need.