Titties! 

March 2024

Everybody loves them. Even as a heterosexually married, female I am fascinated by breasts. Not my own so much any more. But I like sizing up, admiring and observing other women’s breasts and what they do with them. 

Last month we celebrated a friend’s birthday by going to a burlesque show. It is very entertaining to watch women perform the act of removing their clothes. The music. The costumes. The drama. All leading to the finalè of popping out their boobs and swinging the tasseled pasties on the nipples. 

There were women of different shapes and sizes. I loved seeing the bigger girls bare their asses and dance with confidence. Admittedly, I was eager to see the bigger boobs! One woman, who had an enormous set of ta-tas, came out to shake and shimmy like no one else. Her breast heaved out of the bra. But she never revealed them. The next large breasted woman did not disappoint. She let her’s pop out and she even bounced up and down so everybody could get excited with her. 

As I always do when watching someone perform, I imagined myself doing it. Could I go on stage and perform a strip tease? In my imagination I can do it effortlessly. But I’ve learned a few things about myself by now, I have a lot of self doubt. The noisy roommate in my head would be raging with criticism and judgement at the hint of taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I’m still working up the nerve to attend the naked yoga class at Urban Sanctuary. And that is an intimate setting, with only women, and the option to undress to your comfort level.

While many I’ve talked to cringe at the idea of being naked in a yoga class, I realize it’s a date between you and your inner voice. Can you be comfortable in your own body? It doesn’t matter what others are thinking or saying. Can you accept yourself? Love yourself? Every inch, no matter how plump, thin, big, or small?  

One of my yoga books talks about a guy who ran into his friend’s mother at nudist retreat. She had her breast removed. She not only called him over to talk to face to face, fully unclothed, but she told him to look at her chest and the scars of a double mastectomy. She explained how she spent a life time hating her body, and her breasts, and then she developed cancer. Coming to nudist retreats was part of her healing, accepting, and LOVING HER BODY! Just as it is. Do you?

If you can love and honor your body you’re probably more likely to listen to it. As I always talk about in yoga class, the body is always communicating with us but often we shut it out with critisizm, distractions, pain relievers or other ways of ignoring feeling what we should hear. Having time to be still and present is good practice for learning to listen and appreciate. 

I admire all the women who get up on stage and shake their butts and jiggle their titties. That takes a lot of confidence and self love. Can you love your body enough to be naked and proud? I’m still working on that too. 

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