Who owns women's breasts?

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What Women's Breasts Say © shutterstock / Rawpixel.com

By: Charlie Dupiot Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Symbol of motherhood, embodiment of femininity, object of fantasy ... Women's breasts are the center of attention.

Neither too big nor too small, natural, hidden but not invisible either ...

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The injunctions to the ideal breast are numerous, often contradictory.

They are exhibited XXL on billboards but naked, they are prohibited on social networks.

From adolescence, we scrutinize the appearance of young girls' breasts.

More and more women seem, however, to reclaim their bodies.

At the end of confinement, some chose to give up their bra for the sake of comfort or for conviction.

In France, they are now 7%, aged 18 and over, no longer or almost no longer wearing a bra.

An even more marked tendency among those under 25 since they would be 18% to practice “No bra”.

What relationship do women have with their breasts?

Will the diversity of breasts and beauties finally show up? 

With

Gala Avanzi

, journalist, author of 

No Bra - What my chest says about me

 (Editions Flammarion)

and host of the Instagram accounts @ gala.avz and @sorcieretamere which denounce the injunctions and injustices suffered by women and gender minorities.

Bernard Andrieu

, body philosopher and author of 

Rester beau

 (Du murmure, 2017)

The testimonies of teenage girls on their relationship to their breasts.

They are between 16 and 18 years old and have faced their modesty to tell us about their breasts ... Inès, Camille and Vicky live in the Paris region,

Charlie Dupiot

met all three of them.

They start by telling us when their breasts started to grow. 

Teenage girls talk about their breasts at Charlie Dupiot's microphone

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