“I have a mostly hate-hate relationship with my breasts, but I don’t know how I’d feel / cope if I had to lose them. Hate-hate because [one] there are many (unsightly) stretch marks on it, that radiate outward from my nipples – like some bloody rays of the sun!; and [two] I have big pointy nipples that have to ALWAYS be hidden behind padded bras (goodbye, comfort!). I hated them the MOST when I was breastfeeding because that just makes one feel like a cow.
I’ve had to use breast pumps too while I was weaning my baby off, and those months are the single most traumatic events of my life. Never never never never never again.
But because the men I’ve been with have never complained or said anything even remotely unkind about them, I am not anxious about them as sexual parts of me.
To me, they’re just bothersome and I wish breasts were detachable things that one could remove at the end of the day. That would be good, na?”
