Bare Reality
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BARE REALITY First published in 2015 by Pinter and Martin Ltd Text and images copyright Laura Dodsworth 2015 Laura Dodsworth has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act of 1988. All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-78066-260-2 Managing Editor: Zo Blanc Editor: Susan Last Design: Blok Graphic, London A catalogue record for this book is available from the British library. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade and otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher s prior consent in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. The author and publisher disclaim, as far as the law allows, any liability arising directly or indirectly from the use, or misuse, of the information contained in this book. 1 per book sold is paid to Breast Cancer UK a registered charity, number 1138866 Registered Company Number 7348408 Printed and bound in China by Everbest Printing Co. Ltd Pinter and Martin Ltd 6 Effra Parade London SW2 1PS www.pinterandmartin.com Editor s note: Clothing and shoe sizes that appear in interviews refer to UK sizes. Please note all the stories in Bare Reality are personal opinion. No book can replace the diagnostic expertise and medical advice of a trusted physician.

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Date de parution 01 janvier 0001
Nombre de lectures 23
EAN13 9781780662633
Langue English
Poids de l'ouvrage 19 Mo

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BARE REALITY

First published in 2015 by Pinter and Martin Ltd Text and images copyright Laura Dodsworth 2015
Laura Dodsworth has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the copyright, designs and patents act of 1988.
All rights reserved. ISBN 978-1-78066-260-2
Managing Editor: Zo Blanc Editor: Susan Last Design: Blok Graphic, London
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British library.
This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade and otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher s prior consent in any form or binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. The author and publisher disclaim, as far as the law allows, any liability arising directly or indirectly from the use, or misuse, of the information contained in this book.
1 per book sold is paid to Breast Cancer UK a registered charity, number 1138866 Registered Company Number 7348408
Printed and bound in China by Everbest Printing Co. Ltd
Pinter and Martin Ltd 6 Effra Parade London SW2 1PS
www.pinterandmartin.com
Editor s note: Clothing and shoe sizes that appear in interviews refer to UK sizes. Please note all the stories in Bare Reality are personal opinion. No book can replace the diagnostic expertise and medical advice of a trusted physician. Please be certain to consult your doctor before making any decisions that affect your health, particularly if you suffer from any medical condition or have any symptom that may require treatment.
Contents
Acknowledgment and thanks
Foreword by Soraya Chemaly
Introduction
I m proud I decided to have a tattoo
Breasts make you feel like a proper woman
There s a sense that breasts are for titillating men now
I tease my bra off
This has been the year of the breast
My breasts are small and inconvenient for clothes
I ve got a great pair of melons!
God gives life and creates, and as a woman you can connect with that
Breasts are like psychic baubles
Naturism is a close and supportive community
We are so fixated on them in our culture
Often people don t perceive you as a sexual person when you are in a wheelchair
My daughter can sit next to me to breastfeed because my breasts bend round the corner
When I was thinner I always wanted bigger boobs, and now I ve got them, not really
Because I have rejected my breasts they aren t erogenous
There was no need for them to be that big
Breasts are powerful, not submissive
Because I m pregnant they re not as I ve known them
The female body is beautiful
I stopped wearing bras when I started to think about the politics of body image
My boobs disappeared, my periods stopped, my hips shrunk
In our culture you have to hide when you breastfeed
It broke my heart when my daughter told me she had breast cancer
I might be ambivalent about my breasts as a self-defence mechanism
I wanted to design them, to make them more important to me
They started to show naked boobs after the Second World War
Every young person strives to be like the images in the magazines
If I d had big breasts I would have been a different person
Boys like big-breasted girls because of what they see in the media
Girls send pictures of their breasts to boys
I m completely ambivalent about my breasts
I ve never worn a bra
They are my assets and I have been blessed with them
Mine are very large and I ve only got little legs, I m like Humpty Dumpty
Eating wasn t for me any more
I was so determined to breastfeed my second baby
Breasts are an integral part of my identity as a woman
I want to raise awareness of breast cancer in a positive way
Conversations with my mum about weight started at a very young age
They were like balloons after a party
Stretchmarks aren t pretty but you can feel proud of them
Sport has changed my body image
I m planning to have breast implants / I look in the mirror and it s not me
I never even give it a thought now
I regret not using my womanly wiles
My breasts are empowering, feminine, attractive and confident
Men think they are the bee s knees
Great liberation of the breasts needs to happen
It was wonderful that my son shaved my head for me
My husband has bought me about 35 sets of matching underwear
It s almost embarrassing when breasts are popping out at you
I felt more confident after the boob job
Porn takes the pressure away from finding relationships and sexual partners
Women are much more likely to involve your breasts and to know what to do with them
I felt like I d been eaten by a tiger
We re all trying to be the Special K woman
I don t like the lumpy bits on my areolae
I can have an orgasm without my breasts, but it s a lot more satisfying if they are involved
I could look like a Page 3 girl, but I don t want to be a sexual commodity
When I bare my breasts I am trying to bare my soul
My husband s never really said how he feels
He literally stood there for five minutes massaging my breasts in one direction
Breasts can come into sex in BDSM in the form of nipple play or nipple torture
All boobs go south
I grew up with scars on my breasts
I m a burlesque dancer who doesn t fit the beauty archetype
I m the one with the huge breasts, that s my thing
They re not bad, are they?
I still hate my body, but I ve always loved my boobs
My breasts are still intact. I am grateful for them
At night, I use the left breast for the babies, and the right one is for sex
I ve streaked at half time at proper big matches
People say they want to motorboat them
Sometimes I think they are too flat and nothingy
My first true love made me feel good about myself
The only thing I see in the mirror which looks like I think it should, are my breasts
We are goddesses, we create life
One is quite shy. One is like a roaring teenager and up for anything!
I had plenty of unwanted attention in the typing pool
The piercings make my boobs look pretty
I was reborn as a Drag Goddess
I used to dream a lot about being naked in public
It s worrying when you get padded and push up bras for growing breasts
Large breasts are seen as amazing when actually they are an extreme pain
I wish I had appreciated my body more before
My nickname was Fried Eggs
Breasts are supposed to have their own intelligence
The breasts are located either side of the heart chakra
Most of the time we don t realise how beautiful women are
It s hard to tell the people you are closest to that you have breast cancer
I d like to look like a Victoria s Secret model
My breasts have always been a turn-on
80 per cent of the time they are a feature of sex
I don t touch my breasts if I m masturbating. It s all about speed these days!
Breasts are a homing device for men
He was kissing away when breastmilk came out
They were so sensitive it was like having two clitorises on my chest
My grandma always said a good handful is enough
My breasts have pleasurable feelings that I wasn t aware of before
My milk went when Hitler marched in
Why create Bare Reality ?
Methodology
Acknowledgements and thanks
Acknowledgement and thanks
Thank you to my family and friends for listening to me, encouraging me and advising me. I m fortunate to have had the help, love and support of so many people. Special thanks and acknowledgements must go to John, Ethan and Cole for their patience and support. To my parents, for encouraging me to be a free thinker, and have confidence in myself. Also to Lucy, Sarah, Craig, Soraya, Zo , Martin, Bex, Matt, Ruth, Cassie, Lindsay, Cath and Neil. I m grateful that Breast Cancer UK gave me the opportunity to support such a worthwhile charity.
An enormous and heartfelt thank you goes to the 100 women who took part in Bare Reality. You took a touching leap of faith when you let me photograph and interview you. That trust in me, and the stories you told, moved and inspired me. I hope that Bare Reality honours you and your courage in baring your bodies and hearts.
Foreword
There are few parts of human anatomy as provocative as a woman s breasts, which frequently exist, culturally, not as part of women s bodies, but as ideas defining an eternally shifting border between private and public.
The moment a girl s budding breasts make an appearance is the moment that her relationship to the world and the people in it begins to be redefined, even in her own imagination. As girls and women, we often learn to think about our changing breasts from the perspective of how they make other people feel - in particular, men and babies. In other words, beneath thoughts of bras and bathing suits, we think of ourselves in terms of sex or sacrifice, naked and exposed or comforting and nurturing. As the stories here attest, these lessons are filtered through class, race, sexuality, religion, illness, geography, politics and, too frequently, violence and war.
Images of bared female breasts have evolved as a primary symbol not just of what makes women valuable and important, but of what cultures think of themselves. In her book, A History of the Breast, Marilyn Yalom delightfully explores the manifold ways in which this part of our bodies has come to represent, visually, central ideas about women and what constitutes progress . How the female breast is portrayed, and displayed, has illustrated gender relationships, changing political thought and dominant religious ideas. In addition, the regulation of these images, which varies tremendously across the globe, is related to the regulation of female freedom, sexuality and rights.
Breasts have been central to iconic depictions of women as sexually available fertility goddesses, as mothers who sacrifice their bodies for their children and as freedom-fighting avatars of national independence. If you ar

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