Long live bras!

Yes, this is what I want to shout :)

Lately, unless you've been living in a cave, you too have heard about that famous American French study (in Besançon) that basically says, and I'm summarizing quickly, that bras are evil, useless, and it's better not to wear them to have prettier breasts.

I had two reactions at first. I laughed. Very loudly and a lot. And then I shouted Bullshit, because yes, when I'm angry, remember, I speak English!

So, still according to the study, the bra would be a mental need and not a necessity. I'm using a lot of conditional tense, but so, according to the study, the nipple would rise by 7mm in a year compared to the shoulder. So sagging breasts are just an illusion?

Seriously (yes, I'm still annoyed), and yet those women in poor countries (very poor) when they are filmed topless in documentaries, I don't remember thinking "Wow, they have really beautiful breasts, that's from having stopped wearing bras." Ah, but I'm an idiot, they've never worn them!

Anyway, after the annoyance, it's time for reality. I see a lot of breasts. Often too many. I see women of a certain age who have stopped wearing bras for several reasons.

The one that keeps coming back is always the same: bras cause cancer. Here I want to tell you: Seriously. (sorry for my lousy reference). Ladies, get that out of your head, a bra does not cause cancer!! The rumor, because yes it is a rumor, wants us to believe that the bra would compress the chest, thereby harming the proper circulation of fluids and preventing lymphatic drainage, which eliminates toxins. These, which then accumulate in the breasts, would be the cause of cysts and cancerous tumors (source). That's false. And yet they have this latent fear that if they start wearing bras again, they will be susceptible to cancer.

So you understand, I'm #teambra, at the same time, maybe this study is good if you have almost no breasts, which is not my case. I wouldn't see myself going out without a bra every day. Working, going out, dancing... you still shouldn't push it.

After that, I'm not saying you should sleep with a bra, at night you don't need your breasts to be supported. Well, I do know some girls who sleep with bras.

And then, imagine for a moment seduction without a bra (yes, you laughed at that image too)

I will conclude on the positive aspect of the bra. In Mozambique, women who are victims of sex trafficking reintegrate by selling second-hand bras. So that's why we must continue to wear bras!!