Well, true confession time. I can’t tell the difference just by looking, and I’ve never, to my knowledge, felt a fake. Of course, there haven’t been all that many breasts in my hands over the years.
Beasts are one of those bodily features that indicate good potential in a mate, I believe. To the extent they are associated with beauty, then they also are associated with intelligence. Please don’t make me give you the evidence on this last; I have already done it multiple times here. I should have a cut and past insert for it.
Now, obviously there is variation, and there are going to be women who aren’t so good looking who are intelligent, as well as good looking women with flat chests who are quite intelligent. In any case, if it is a sign of intelligence (and I know this is counter-intuitive, especially because of all the jokes about dumb blondes, and the general disdain for the intelligence of a beautiful woman), then of course the higher up men will be interested in it.
Now, I’ve heard a lot of women talk about how they use their beauty. They know that it makes men lose their senses a bit, and that men will do things for beautiful women that they won’t do for other women. In fact, sometimes men don’t even see other women.
Associating with beautiful women is a sign of higher status for men. Women know this, and some work as hard to be as beautiful as possible in order to get an advantage. Women can use the desires and lusts of men to their advantage, if men let them.
Of course, for the highest status conferred on the man, a woman’s assets should be natural, otherwise other men will make comments. However, a lot of looks is glamour—makeup, breast enhancements, other forms of plastic surgery. For the most part, people don’t know what is real and what isn’t. But women often don’t want to give away any secrets, and they won’t even let their lovers see them in the morning until they have “put on” their faces.
Anyway, there is always more status associated with the real thing than with the look-alike. A real Gucci whatever is better than a knock-off. Chateau Lafitte confers more status than Gallo.
So fake breasts are great, without too much close inspection. But if they aren’t real, men can suffer from that in terms of reduced status. A lot of men claim that they can tell. I wonder. I truly wonder.