How do you, as an author, describe breasts?

[jomar]

No-one uses celebrity comparisons? I don't.

Absolutely 100% wrong. Why? Because I did in one of my stories. Sort of.

It would be dated now, but @YmaOHyd's "A-cups, at best" could become "like Audrey Hepburn's."

See, most so called authors here go on about how dribbling in a few features over the course of a few pages is oh so, I don’t know, “how it’s done.” No. Guys do the comparison.

If you’re writing for women sure, write stuff like saucy, velvet skin, wisp of hair, but stay away from moist, just saying.

But if you’re writing for men just measure twice and cut once. You can pack so much info into that simple celeb comparison. For example: she was Taylor Swift in height and build and looked me evenly in my eyes. See? You’ve conveyed the woman is a slender 5’ 11” with a A cup and the male is also the same height. Conversely, if you’d wrote Ariana Grande in build and height and she craned her neck to look me in the eye, you’d convey a petite A cup short woman and taller male. And trust me, guys do the math anyway, so do yourself a favor and just cut out the middleman, as it were. Lastly, while dudes will google to get the visual if they don’t recognize the reference, choose your celebrity carefully because it’ll say much about you, the author @NotWise, who I suspect is a male of a certain age being a bit flirty with @BrightShinyGirl.

So follow my free advice and you’ll be a best selling author on Lit in no time!

 

[yowser]

Male Teenage Infatuation:

Lenny and I, in the early stages of his interest in her, had taken to skipping last period math to watch the girls' basketball team practice in the gym that senior year when the three of us had turned eighteen. Arlene had been a late-bloomer, never attractive or remarkable enough to catch our attention until that last semester of our high school careers.

Watching her drive to the basket in practice and launch towards the hoop was inevitably arousing however. We watched her breasts bounce up and down as she ran the court, as they were poorly restrained by the primitive sports clothing for women athletes back then. They moved around something lovely under her gym-shirt.

When she rose with a jump-shot to send the ball towards the rim, her soft twin orbs would veer upward with the leap and back down again when she landed.

This prompted all sorts of physics discussions later between us: Newton's laws of motion, the actual mass of her boobs, how we might manage to calculate the actual mass of her boobs, boob density, spheroid shape deformation in movement, and so on.

I think we even contemplated some experiments to measure her breasts' angular velocity, using her nipples as data reference points and plotted spatially on two reams of graph paper. We figured we would have to do this experiment with our subject topless however, if we were to get truly accurate data.

 

[WCSGarland]

Pretty fluffy bags of mostly water...

 

[HobokenSweat]

Philadelphia's Mount Rushmore.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I keep it simple. Tan lines/no tan lines. Smaller breasts I like to refer to as a perfect handful. Larger breasts I refer to as full and round or perhaps teardrop shaped if they sag a little. If they are very large and I'm fetishizing that fact, I'll call them huge or pendulous. I'll describe areolas, comparing them in size to a half dollar or something larger like a soda can and nipples, to a food like a gumdrop.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

I honestly don't do much with describing breasts. I do, however, spend copious amounts of time describing what can be done with and to them.

 

[PennyThompson]

Pretty fluffy bags of mostly water...

Is that a Star Trek TNG reference?

 

[MrHereWriting]

 

[luv2custrip]

Thoroughly enough to actually get me aroused.

 

[mirafrida]

Looking back over the last few stories, it appears my approach is highly dependent on the narrator, or the point of view that the narration occupies.

Which, depending on the context, might range from "smallish bust," to a flowery paragraph waxing eloquent about "full and shapely breasts, with just the slightest hint of pendulousness..."

 

[alohadave]

Is that a Star Trek TNG reference?

It's an older reference, but it checks out.

I think it's curious how people have no problem referencing other works, fully knowing that not everyone will get them, but comparing to a celebrity is verboten because not everyone knows who the celebrity is.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Boobies, Boobies, BOOBIES!!!!

 

[jehoram]

I'm more interested in the motion rather than the size... how they swing, bounce, sway and sag.

I think that the only size references I've made are comparisons to fruit... oranges, cantaloupes, grapefruit, and so on. An actual bra size, particularly if the cup is greater than a DD, is almost guaranteed to put me off the story. It's as though the narrator has such a vast experience of ladies' lingerie that he can instantly tell the band and cup size from a glance. Not many man have that kind of experience, although a few narrators have cheated by reading the size of the label... and how many bras actually have that kind of label?

 

[NuclearFairy]

and how many bras actually have that kind of label?

All of mine at least at one point in time. Labels do wear out with time though, and irritating labels do get the snippy snip.

 

[jaF0]

It's as though the narrator has such a vast experience of ladies' lingerie that he can instantly tell the band and cup size from a glance. Not many man have that kind of experience,

Why it's a Fancy Figure 327, available at Francine's of Hollywood in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

"If you've got the boulders, we've got the holders."


( Source; the single greatest TV show in the history of TV shows. )

 

[WCSGarland]

It's much more fun to figure them in millimeters and compare them to howitzer calibers. 155 caliber is just about right.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

This is one of those weird things. Despite the fact that we have all seen, in person or otherwise, an absurdly large number of breasts, and recognize that almost none of them are the same, the vast majority of descriptions of boobs in the stories I tend to read here almost invariably focus on their size.

It's as if, once you know the size, well - there's a boob. Don't need much more than that.

I hate the use of bra and cup sizes because I think most men, and I am by no means excluding myself here, have a very tenuous knowledge and understanding of what those sizes mean. 38C? 34B? 36F? The amount of times I see authors write "She had 34DDs," or something similar is far too common for my tastes.

I think I am going to do my best to be more descriptive in the future just because I don't see it that often. Maybe I just need to read better stories.

 

[YmaOHyd]

 

[SimonDoom]

For me it all depends on the type of story and the tone that is appropriate for it. My norm is not to use numbers to refer to cup size. Instead, I'll use an adjective to give a rough idea, if I think that's even important--I might refer to a smallish breast as "small" or "perky" and a larger one as "large" or "full." Usually I will use the term "breast," but I might use the term "tit" if the story has a naughtier tone, or if that's the way the narrating character might plausibly refer to it.

In one of my recent stories, which is an exhibitionist story about a mature woman narrated by a mature man and heavy on "male gaze," I referred often (perhaps too often) to the breasts as "full" to convey that they were reasonably large. But I didn't use synonyms for them, or too many other words to describe them. I will sometimes refer to and describe the nipples or areola. In this latest story, I described the nipples as large and as "rosy" and I described the areola as "lightly pebbled."

This was a story that was all about the reaction of the male narrator (a stand-in for me) to the sight of the woman character's nude body. She is nude throughout most of the story, so that was important.

In writing, I focus less on the way the breast looks than I do upon the way it affects the narrator or character. I'll point out the visibility of the contour of a nipple if the woman wears no bra, or the excitement a man feels upon seeing a woman's breast revealed to him, or the thrill a woman feels upon baring her breast to a man, or in public.

 

[jaF0]

People say there is no such thing as an ugly one. I disagree.

But do you ever write that into a story? Or do your characters always have the most perfect pair imaginable?

 

[SimonDoom]

People say there is no such thing as an ugly one. I disagree.

But do you ever write that into a story? Or do your characters always have the most perfect pair imaginable?

It's probably rare, because most of us are trying to arouse our readers, not turn them off. I don't believe I've ever described breasts as being ugly in any story of mine, but I'd have to think about it. Come to think of it, I cannot recall any story by anybody at Literotica in which breasts were described as ugly.

I could imagine describing them that way either in a comic story or a horror story. Think about the way Demi Moore's character's breasts looked near the end of The Substance. Or the breasts of the old orange-faced landlady in Something About Mary.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I looked at a couple stories. 'My breasts' get mentioned a lot with no further description (until what happens to them).

But I've also mentioned 'bare breasts bouncing', someone squeezing breasts together to make 'still not much cleavage - I'm not well endowed', various small pointed breasts, some perky, some rounded, some imposing bosoms, and one pair as wonderful and pillowy and 'I didn't even know bras could come in a MM cup until I met Becca'. Various beautiful pale/bronze/dark curves. Some little pink nipples, some big brown ones. One or two leaking milk, to the owner's embarrassment. A few pierced ones. Some cute titties on a more laddish woman, no boobs because I hate the word.

All lovely, so I like to use just enough description to make readers think about breasts in general.

 

[jaF0]

^^^ That goes over to the Fantasy thread. The really, really nice pairs are kind of rare. The fantasy is they're everywhere.

 

[SimonDoom]

Could be a good story challenge. Write a story that prominently features breasts without ever using the word "breasts."

 

[YmaOHyd]

People say there is no such thing as an ugly one. I disagree.

But do you ever write that into a story? Or do your characters always have the most perfect pair imaginable?

So far, the boobs I've written about have all been pretty good, and if they're not I think I've operated on the principle of "if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all."

In at least two of his series, BreakTheBar gives the characters who become irredeemable villains big, gravity-defying bolt-on implants, and in one of them there's an explicit contrast drawn between character A (implants that look fake, is evil) and character B (implants chosen to mimic realistic sag and shape, is very kind and sweet). So there's an example, at least to me, of ugly boobs being used to mirror an ugly personality.