Few Things You Should Know About B**bs

The size of a woman’s bosoms and areolas can be as wide as a half-dollar or smaller than a dime

Have you ever looked at your bosoms and wondered if they’re normal? It turns out, they come in all different shapes and sizes. What’s more, they can bring you incredible pleasure, help feed a baby, and even tip you off to some potentially serious health problems.

Seriously, they’re amazing. After reading this, we promise you’ll have newfound respect for this body part. Here, everything you need to know about your bosoms.

The size of a woman’s bosoms and areolas can be as wide as a half-dollar or smaller than a dime, and either way is totally normal, says Alyssa Dweck, M.D., ob-gyn in Westchester, New York and coauthor of V Is for v**ina. Gain weight or get pregnant, and they can balloon even bigger, she says.

Pale pink, brick red, dark brown: bosom pigment has to do with a woman’s ethnic background and the hue of the rest of her skin. Just as bosom size changes when you have a baby, so does bosom color, and that shift in shade is often permanent. “It’s the result of hormone surges during pregnancy,” says Dweck.

Bosoms are an erogenous zone for many women, and a 2011 study from the Journal of s*xual Medicine backs this up. Researchers using MRI imaging found that when bosoms are stimulated, a pleasure center inside the brain lights up the same way it lights up after stimulation of the cli**ris and v**ina.

The same 2011 study that showed a link between bosom stimulation and the pleasure center of the brain also raised the possibility that bosom stimulation alone could result in climax, something s*x researchers previously estimated that only a “small number” of women could experience.

It’s not uncommon for a man or a woman to be born with three bosoms (or four, or five, or seven, as one 2012 study details). These extra bosoms, known as “supernumerary bosoms,” resemble a mole or mark. They never develop into actual br**sts, and they can show up anywhere on the body, according to the National Institutes of Health.

Bosoms are an erogenous zone for many women, and a 2011 study from the Journal of s*xual Medicine backs this up. Researchers using MRI imaging found that when bosoms are stimulated, a pleasure center inside the brain lights up the same way it lights up after stimulation of the cli**ris and v**ina.

The same 2011 study that showed a link between bosom stimulation and the pleasure center of the brain also raised the possibility that bosom stimulation alone could result in climax, something s*x researchers previously estimated that only a “small number” of women could experience.

It’s not uncommon for a man or a woman to be born with three bosoms (or four, or five, or seven, as one 2012 study details). These extra bosoms, known as “supernumerary bosoms,” resemble a mole or mark. They never develop into actual br**sts, and they can show up anywhere on the body, according to the National Institutes of Health.