Bra size guide

[IvyMae]

Where many men say they love larger breasts on women, loving them and only selecting women with large ones ate two totally different things. A woman with A cups seems no more less likely to find a partner than a woman with larger ones.

 

[brian358]

To all readers who love large breasts...so do I. Having said that, there have been many stories I have started to read, come across a ridiculous bra size on a character, gotten annoyed and stopped reading. I'm assuming most of these are written by men since (hopefully) most women know how the sizes work.

I think authors are very much better at this now.

Go back 15 years and you find some really shocking examples. Writers were obsessed with the number and seemed to feel that as long as they added something like a D-G afterwards that this qualified as super-huge.

55FF or 75DD. Ugh!

It is rather annoying because when you do know how measurements work, and what that would actually look like, its difficult to get a rather grossly comical image out it of your mind...

But, as I said, fortunately it seems much rarer now, probably because the internet has made it much easier to find information on how it works.

By the way, women aren't always much better. I was chatting to a friend of a friend the other day and coincidentally the subject came up (She's pregnant and they've blown up a bit). She knew they measured the band size but thought the cup size was just a "guess."

She had no concept that the full part of the bust should be measured as well and how the two relate.

 

[slyc_willie]

Where many men say they love larger breasts on women, loving them and only selecting women with large ones ate two totally different things. A woman with A cups seems no more less likely to find a partner than a woman with larger ones.

I knew a woman in college who was very petite, just over five feet tall, slender-framed, yet possessed freakishly enormous breasts. 34HH, as I recall. They were so large that if you saw her from behind, you could see the curves of her beasts jutting out several inches to either side.

She was a pretty smart lady, though. During and shortly after college, she appeared in several soft-core porn videos and posed for a ton of men's magazines. Made herself a lot of money. Then she had breast-reduction surgery that cut her tits down to C-cups. Wish I knew what she was up to now, but I imagine she's a hell of lot happier than if she had kept her natural endowments the way they were.

Breasts as a fetish are a temporary source of titillation, as far as I'm concerned. It's like dating a virgin; once you've sampled all the goodies, the "wow" factor is gone. I've had lovers with very impressive breasts (DD cups) and those with flat chests. When it came down to it, I didn't really care about her tits. The potential for a relationship lay much further and deeper within.

 

[dinkleberry]

IMO: Erotica vs. a sex story

As an author on this site, it has been my experience that there two different audiences.
One audience are readers looking for stories that while fiction are plausible and realistic. They enjoy added details, believable characters and situations. They want the characters to speak and act as normal people may when in such a settings. These readers appreciate when a submission is more than 2-3 screen pages long as it gives the story time develop and progress. This audience seems to enjoy when the characters are within the range of 'normal' with their attributes.

Another audience is looking for a sex story and that's all. They want the sex to happen NOW.
This audience reminds me of the readers who enjoyed the 6-8 paragraph stories in the old Penthouse Forums (and those other Reader's Digest sized letters magazines.) They are looking for fantasy. Big bust pornstars and strippers often exaggerate their dimensions to ridiculous numbers. I remember seeing Tiffany Towers claiming to be an 88JJJ. While she may have been close a triple j-cup 88 inches is preposterous as that's over 7 feet in circumference; yet, it was fantasy she was selling - quite successfully I may add.

So, some readers wish to read about 12 inch cocks and a guy that can cum three times in 30 minutes depositing a gallon of semen; they want the female to be similarly unrealistic i.e. 5'9, weighing 110 pounds while being a 42DDD-22-38. Other readers want the opposite. They enjoy the girl, or older woman, next door with the male character also being more average.

What's one to do?

 

[sr71plt]

What to do? It's a mega site in volume. You appreciate that you can find the stories you want here and tolerate that those who like their stories different can find them as well.

 

[chaz57]

To all readers who love large breasts...so do I. Having said that, there have been many stories I have started to read, come across a ridiculous bra size on a character, gotten annoyed and stopped reading. I'm assuming most of these are written by men since (hopefully) most women know how the sizes work. So gentlemen here is some info:

The number (32, 34, etc) refers to the measurement under the breasts around the woman's rib cage.
The letter is the cup size. To configure the cup size you take the measurement under the breasts and then measure over the fullest part of the breast. If this measurement is:
1 inch bigger - A cup
2 inches bigger - B cup

and so on. I have seen so many stories in which the author is describing a skinny girl with big breasts and says she wears a 38DD or (just today) a 44EE. If she wears a size 44 bra, there's no way she's skinny. Please keep this in mind while writing.

thankz

 

[CarolinaPeach]

What to do? It's a mega site in volume. You appreciate that you can find the stories you want here and tolerate that those who like their stories different can find them as well.

Indeed, there is something for everybody here and no one is being forced to read something they don't like. If I encounter any type of measurement in the first paragraph, I skip the story. I would rather know if they are pendulous, perky, full, heavy, gravity-defying, luscious than have a useless number and letter. My grandma might fill a DD bra cup, but hers hang to her knees. Not really sexy. (Unless of course you like that sort of thing.)

 

[sr71plt]

Indeed, there is something for everybody here and no one is being forced to read something they don't like. If I encounter any type of measurement in the first paragraph, I skip the story. I would rather know if they are pendulous, perky, full, heavy, gravity-defying, luscious than have a useless number and letter. My grandma might fill a DD bra cup, but hers hang to her knees. Not really sexy. (Unless of course you like that sort of thing.)

Fine. What would be the purpose of posting your druthers on a forum, though--if not to try to get writers to stop writing that and readers from wanting to read their stories that way?

Isn't this sort of a shrug and move on to what you like to read thing unless you're trying to assert your values on others?

 

[CarolinaPeach]

Indeed, there is something for everybody here and no one is being forced to read something they don't like.

Including the opinions and preferences of another person.

I like to express my preferences because, like everyone else in the world, I am supremely interested in myself. Not because I want people to make decisions based on what I, a wholly irrelevant person, might want.

 

[brian358]

Indeed, there is something for everybody here and no one is being forced to read something they don't like. If I encounter any type of measurement in the first paragraph, I skip the story. I would rather know if they are pendulous, perky, full, heavy, gravity-defying, luscious than have a useless number and letter. My grandma might fill a DD bra cup, but hers hang to her knees. Not really sexy. (Unless of course you like that sort of thing.)

I'm the opposite.

Whether its bra sizes, sports or jumbo jets I love statistics.

That's not to say the other things aren't extremely important as well - it's just that if there's no numbers I feel something is missing.

The best way I can describe it is like watching an important game and not knowing the final score...

 

[sr71plt]

I don't use many statistics myself, although I'd feel free to use them in the dialogue of a character who normally was statistic oriented.

They do, however, exist as a shorthand to create an image in the reader's mind, and there are both writers and readers who visualize best this way.

Pulling on a post I read further up the line, I think that female readers probably have a much better understanding of what the bra sizes represent than male readers do, in general, even if male readers like to see the stats more. What the male reader is getting is a quick image of "humongous" and that's arousing for them--in a way that the word "humongous" isn't. I'll bet they don't really know the difference between D and H and don't really care that there is a difference. They're not being literalists about it. They also don't seem to be obsessed about it the way I see some posters on the forum are.

 

[CarolinaPeach]

The best way I can describe it is like watching an important game and not knowing the final score...

LOL, excellent description. More power to you if that's your thing.

Maybe I don't like 32 FF because I've always hated math, lol. Sounds too much like an algebra problem.

What the male reader is getting is a quick image of "humongous" and that's arousing for them--in a way that the word "humongous" isn't. I'll bet they don't really know the difference between D and H and don't really care that there is a difference. They're not being literalists about it.

Perhaps being a woman and having to use measuring tapes to determine one's size, then having to sort through racks of bras looking at tags to find the right size makes bra size descriptions in a story feel like work. A 32 FF would never be able to measure those tits herself, she'd need help... and then finding that rare size... egads, she'd have to mail order it, and then what if it still doesn't fit? Returning bra via mail, losing postage fees, whew, makes me tired just to think about.

So, yeah, being a literalist kind of takes the oomph out of it. This IS a fantasy site. I can't imagine an ordinary man wanting to think too hard about the mundane aspects of bra purchases when trying to get his rocks off.

 

[brian358]

Big bust pornstars and strippers often exaggerate their dimensions to ridiculous numbers. I remember seeing Tiffany Towers claiming to be an 88JJJ. While she may have been close a triple j-cup 88 inches is preposterous as that's over 7 feet in circumference; yet, it was fantasy she was selling - quite successfully I may add.

Perhaps the most surreal thing is that 88 in that context wouldn't mean she (if it were true) had large breasts.

It would mean she had a huge ribcage measurement beneath her breasts - presumably because she's very tall (about 14 foot!) or very overweight - upon which even JJJs would seem rather small!

 

[brian358]

Maybe I don't like 32 FF...

No? Personally I rather like 32FF.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Indeed, there is something for everybody here and no one is being forced to read something they don't like. If I encounter any type of measurement in the first paragraph, I skip the story. I would rather know if they are pendulous, perky, full, heavy, gravity-defying, luscious than have a useless number and letter. My grandma might fill a DD bra cup, but hers hang to her knees. Not really sexy. (Unless of course you like that sort of thing.)

Quite.

There are no rules for companies about how they quote their bra sizes. Does sr buy XL underpants or do XS suffice?

CP has it nailed. No woman knows her bra size from one brand to another and, for a woman, it is about as sexy as taking out the trash to use this in an erotic story.

Should I start quoting waist and hip measurements in girly stories, or can you live with description?

 

[sr71plt]

Should I start quoting waist and hip measurements in girly stories, or can you live with description?

Perhaps you should just start actually writing stories. You haven't posted one here in seven years--and even then you didn't write much. You're driving on fumes.

 

[elfin_odalisque]

Perhaps you should just start actually writing stories. You haven't posted one here in seven years--and even then you didn't write much. You're driving on fumes.

Guess it must be XS then for the tighty whities with you.

I just think women think much more seriously about their breasts than any guy has understood. The Angelina Jolie story should have made any male erotica writer here realise that 'bosoms' are not a couple of cantaloupe melons to be weighed and quantified.

I have many stories but promised myself not to post them until you took your rudeness elsewhere.

 

[sr71plt]

Guess it must be XS then for the tighty whities with you.

I just think women think much more seriously about their breasts than any guy has understood. The Angelina Jolie story should have made any male erotica writer here realise that 'bosoms' are not a couple of cantaloupe melons to be weighed and quantified.

Not that this relates to anything I've posted.

I have many stories but promised myself not to post them until you took your rudeness elsewhere.

Bullshit. You've got nothing (in all sorts of categories).

 

[spicefiction]

I use bra size occasionally, but it can get a bit tired. I struggle to find unique ways to describe breasts... the size of oranges, two perfect grapefruit halves.... hmm.