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The Composition of Titties
The primary anatomical support for the titties is thought to be provided by the Cooper's ligaments, with additional support from the skin covering the titties themselves, and it is this support which determines the shape of the titties. The titties naturally sag through aging, as the ligaments become elongated. This process may be accelerated by high impact exercises, and a brassiere may reduce this effect by providing external support, although the health benefits of wearing of a brassiere are not universally accepted. Pendulous titties (ptosis) are considered undesirable by some, and some older women seek cosmetic surgery to raise their busts. As titties are mostly composed of adipose tissue, their size can change over time if the woman gains or loses weight. It is also typical for them to grow in size during pregnancy and while tittiefeeding, mainly due to hypertrophy of the mammary gland in response to the hormone prolactin. The size of a woman's titties usually fluctuates during the menstrual cycle, particularly with premenstrual water retention. An increase in tittie size is also a common side effect of use of the contraceptive pill. There is no relationship between tittie size and ability to tittiefeed, and it is a common belief that human female titties are shaped the way they are so that they can feed babies by producing milk. However, their shape is also thought to have evolved due to sexual attraction, as described above. The size of a woman's titties is typically expressed as a "bra size". According to the results of the "Size UK" survey [2], the average bra size in the UK has increased from a 34B in the 1950s to a 36C today, and the average size for U.S. women is a 34B as of 2005 by the CDC. Women with exceptionally large titties may experience back pain only if they wear improperly fitting bras, whilst in some Western societies there is a belief amongst some that small titties make a woman less sexually attractive. Some women suffer from insecurity about their titties, and in some cultures a number of women who are unhappy with their size seek surgery either to artificially reduce or enlarge their titties. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery found that 334,052 tittie augmentation procedures were performed in 2004 [3]. Some women undergo tittie reconstruction after mastectomy for tittie cancer, a result of the high value placed on symmetry of the female human form in those cultures, and because women often identify their femininity and sense of self with their titties. It is typical for a woman's titties to be unequal in size, particularly whilst the titties are developing during puberty. Statistically it is slightly more common for the left tittie to be the larger . In some rare cases, one tittie may be greatly larger or smaller than the other, or fail to develop entirely.
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Most of the human female tittie is actually adipose tissue (fat)
and connective tissue, rather than the mammary glands. There is
naturally a great variety in the size and shape of titties in
women, with size being affected by various factors including genetics.
