An exploration of the history and politics of breast obsession in America,…
Breast Archives
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Real women reveal their breasts and uncover personal truths in this gently provocative documentary exploring embodiment, womanhood, and the power of being seen.
The Breast Archives uncovers nine women's personal stories of empowerment. Baring their breasts and their hearts, the women share the unique journeys they've made with their bodies, from their formative years of hiding, shame, and disconnection to adulthood and the discovery of what it means to be a powerful woman. As the women slowly reconnect with their body-based stories they find a reservoir of strength and wisdom that lies within their breasts.
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Main credits
Murphy, Meagan (film director)
Murphy, Meagan (film producer)
Murphy, Meagan (screenwriter)
Murphy, Meagan (editor of moving image work)
Rossi, Fernanda (screenwriter)
Roelofs, Petra (on-screen participant)
Grohe, Laura Gayle (on-screen participant)
Harris, Marsia (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Director of photography, Jodi Silver; edited by Esther Glovacki, Franceso Passalaqua, Meagan Murphy; music by Miriam Cutler.
Distributor subjects
Gender and Sexuality, Women's History, Women's Studies, Healthcare, Medicine and Nursing, Cancer, Death and Dying,Keywords
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All of a sudden there\'s this hormone thing
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happening things\'ll pop and
I can remember to this day
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the sound of the giggles and
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the boys and nobody explained to me
other than old boys will be boys.
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And girls get to be girls.
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I think if I was brought up
with the opportunity to have
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self-love or to appreciate my body
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Maybe a different person.
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I don\'t remember anyone
I was sitting down and
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saying this is how you are in
the world with your breasts.
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This is how you can just be who you are
aligned to hide my sensuality and order two
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a woman be accepted.
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My breasts have been hugely
influential on the person I have
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become because of my negative
relationship with them.
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You know we may be called on to know different
things at different times in history.
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But if we can\'t use our
bodies are sacred bodies to
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know then we are going to miss
that stream of information.
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There\'s something there\'s something that is
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more than what we are being
told or seeing there\'s more
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I would say the first time I became aware of
my breasts would be like giggly wiggly with
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girls sleepovers and you know
it\'s like you hide under
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your t-shirt and they\'re like there\'s
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all this like you know
displaced emotion and whatnot.
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And there\'s nothing there and you\'re
covering your nipples just in case you know
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and and I think there\'s also that legality
of like it\'s all safe in the snippet
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You know it\'s like no nipple no nipple.
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There was no talk about breasts
in my house growing up at Canyon.
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I remember my first Brom my mom taking me
for my first Brian there was nothing about
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puberty like I don\'t remember any talk about
it and still we don\'t talk about nothing.
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There was no guidance absolutely nothing.
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The only thing I ever remember from my
childhood from anyone in my family was
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my grandmother who always
said I have perfect press.
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She would always say. I
never nurse their perfect.
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I have perfect little nipples
may have perfect breasts.
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And I thought to myself well nobody touches
them and you\'re going to die like that.
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So who cares
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I can remember being like five or six and
being told now you have to wear a top.
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And it\'s one of those memories that
always sort of goes back and my brain.
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And I remember being really
confused because it was hot out.
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Why boys didn\'t have to
wear shirts and girls did.
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And I don\'t think any answer
I got was ever satisfactory.
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But I remember a piece a
sham there of why do I have
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to do this what\'s wrong with me it was
like cover this up. Don\'t show this.
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I think I developed really
early and like kindergarten
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or first grade where I was running
around the playground and I was
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Bobbing my line bu bi\'s were
moving and the teacher noticed.
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And I\'m sure I don\'t know
the exact story but I\'m
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sure she called my mother because
the very next day I went to
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school with a bra I wasn\'t
taught anything about
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my breasts and I wasn\'t
taught to love them.
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I wasn\'t taught to you really
even look at them just abroad.
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But the shirt on you know if they\'re
moving too much tighter bra.
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I used to play volleyball and after
digging all the women shower together.
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And what I remember is I always felt like
I didn\'t have a problem being naked but
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I felt like they could see that I\'m different
because of my breast looking different
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And I guess there was some sort of shame
around it through a little buds parasites.
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We the real issue was
outside of my family you
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know where to get a
connection to the tenderness.
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I felt there was a beautiful stream in
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these sweet-smelling grasses
and a wild apple tree.
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And I would live there.
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And I always like to be naked.
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I\'ll give them that was dangerous and girls
weren\'t supposed to be in the forest. But
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I love the sun on my body
in the wind touching
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me and nature connected me with what I was
feeling which is I am of the living earth.
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My relationship with my breasts would be.
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Hello I think their grade
there are moments that I
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have where I think there are two small
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through my life that I\'ve
thought they were too small.
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Looking from the side.
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Where are they from the front
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I love them. I\'m actually afraid to have
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sound so bad to have children
because I\'m afraid of what it\'s
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gonna do to my breath I wouldn\'t
have children because of
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that but I\'m a little nervous what
it\'s gonna do them because I do it.
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It\'s probably one of my
favorite parts of my body.
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My relationship with my
breast is very positive.
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I\'m really comfortable with my body.
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I remember like at some point maybe it
was college or something like that.
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That was that saying anymore
than a handfuls of waste.
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So I think I felt like I\'ve gotta hand
in puberty Jay Mansfield was the motto.
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So I thought I was flat
chested and that embarrassed
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me in the eyes of being
attractive to other boys
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I was very aware that they
weren\'t attractive by
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a standard the standard that I saw in
Seventeen magazine or that I saw on the TV.
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The nipples were sort
of pointed up and they
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were just you know rather than being
around and and perfectly even.
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And I had a sense that they
were going to change as I grew.
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But I was embarrassed by them.
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I didn\'t feel that I was attractive
and I wanted to cover up.
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I didn\'t like the shape of
my breasts like for instance
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my sister and me talking better pose
but she\'s got a very perky boobs
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And always had my boobs
however resemble more or like
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my grandmother\'s long and
pendulous my best friend.
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And we used to compare
our breaths actually.
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And she called mine footballs.
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So no I did not like the
shape of my breasts.
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And I think that was part of my just tucking
them away not really being with them.
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You know this body thing is
very very very deep for me.
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If there is an intimacy involved I
can be bold if I feel confident.
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But if it\'s a breast man I don\'t even count
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If there\'s something that
feels like I want to
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cry and it\'s obviously
complicated and deep.
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And it is something that would come
from my conscious and unconscious.
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But it would be something that
would make me feel less than an
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inadequate or not sexual enough.
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And I would have to say
honestly that I would
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overcompensate probably sexually
because of that literally
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because my breast it breaks my heart that my
my step daughter who\'s become my daughter
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She hates her body and I hate that she\'s
carrying that legacy and she just turned 21
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and it would have helped provide
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some sense of what to do to help
and how to guide her width that.
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I feel like there was the desire to have
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bigger breasts and then yeah
the the inverted nipples.
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I can still see myself sitting at
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the doctor\'s office because I
wanted to know if he could make
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my nipples come out just
like everybody else\'s
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and so he started touching
them in making even pictures.
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I believe and telling like the procedure
that okay then this was going to be
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cut and this was going to be glued
on and and all of a sudden I\'m like
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I like I couldn\'t breathe anymore.
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I was like oh my god I made a mistake.
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It was like Why for aesthetic
reasons would I do that and I cut
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my milk channels through and then hoping
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that it will grow back on
again but you never know.
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So I mean it from that point it was
so obvious like okay these statics.
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I mean it\'s important in
lots of ways in my life but
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this is my body this is
this is not what I want
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I watched women morph their breasts.
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I never had breast to work with.
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So you know to watch somebody be central or
sexy or let it linger or it is like I like.
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It\'s shameful from that place
of feeling deformed and
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all the respect that I couldn\'t wear the clothes
that were the clothes in the mod times.
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And so I had to kinda figure
something else out and
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to know that clothes are
made for women with breast.
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It is sad to go looking for clothes
when you don\'t have breasts.
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And you have to work at some weather some of
them and I can hear myself getting quiet.
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So obviously I went looking for clothes
reluctantly to this day. I hate it.
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Breasts have probably influenced
the person I\'ve become.
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Because I think they made me more of
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a free spirit where because I was always
so comfortable with them and like
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the way they looked I was able to go out with
no bra and show my breasts to random people
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On a fun night with friends I wanted to
be noticed I want my brand to be noticed.
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And so that influenced the dressed in a
certain way at certain times to be noticed
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and I got some attention but I also
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got a lot of situations where
I was criticized by women.
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I was a model when I was a teenager.
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And I was chosen for this big show
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absolute models for Boston and it was to
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raise money for the homeless
and it was a very big deal.
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And I was chosen to be the one girl in
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this classic part of the show who
would wear this metallic dress.
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That was a $100 thousand dress made of
silver or something like that. And they
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Show and they put me in the dress
without ever trying it on me.
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And I remember when the dress
came on it just flattened.
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My breasts repressor very pendulous and not
very perky and it just really flatten them.
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And it was very uncomfortable and
I knew they didn\'t look good.
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And they took me out of the dress
for the big show didn\'t even say
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a word to me took me right out
of it and out of that position.
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So heroism that was shattering.
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For sure. Here I was receiving
attention and accolades from
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my looks all the time but as
soon as my breast came into
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the picture it changed the story.
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And they were utterly
in control of my fate.
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I was one of the girls who developed. First
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And fullest and it was hard.
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My family didn\'t have money even though
we acted like we did so I was at
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a private school where I was
already dealing with a lot of
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economic differences a
lot of class problems.
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And then to have moments where I
felt like they like me I realize
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now is because I got boobs
and I\'m different yet again.
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But there\'s something tantalizing
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about my deference that they\'re
willing to overcome that I\'m Other
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I\'m an outsider and I want to be my
friend so they can check it out.
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And in some ways that was probably
that was the tipping point.
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My God a good bra is what it\'s all about.
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The times I have actually gone to a star
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with usually middle aged or
older ladies not women ladies
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lowercase OWL and they measure
and they explain and they
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jiggle and they make sure that I\'m
wearing saw correct size for my body
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It\'s great my shirts fit better.
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They hang differently in my old my old age.
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I just turned 48. But I\'m feeling
older I\'m feeling wiser.
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And and it\'s funny because I began
not to wear a bra at 47 years old.
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I started not wearing bras very often.
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And what I feel from not harnessing
myself every day is just
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ah there\'s a fluidity that happens in
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my movement and in the way I feel
and how I go about the world.
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So there\'s a freedom that we get from
uncovering our breasts. Know about bras
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I wish I didn\'t have to worry when I
don\'t have to wear one but then you have
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the there\'s that line
like that you can cry.
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Some people can say stuff to you can say mean
things to you possibly could be degrading.
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And I don\'t know if I
want to deal with that.
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We follow the rules because that\'s how we
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are raised and the rules around
our breasts are very clear.
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So to think of a whole
neighborhood of women in
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America taken off their shirts to change
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something socially and would
never happen in this culture.
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Our browser way to pretty.
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We have whole catalogs of lingerie
why on earth would we not want to
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show that off Well I think the
consensus of what we have to wear
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Based on how it would look to
someone else high-heeled shoes
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those are terrible for
one\'s feet and ankles
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who who said women should
wear those high-heel shoes.
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Same thing with the breasts.
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Who says you should wear bright you know so
you\'re look better or you\'ll be pushed up.
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But the interesting thing is the materials
that browser made of you know the
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foam foams sometimes it tracks
formaldehyde and other toxins.
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In my little bit of research I don\'t have
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all the conclusive research but I
bet if a little bit of digging that
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the higher incidence of breast
cancer could be related to some of
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the toxic materials used in the bras that
are used to hold up women\'s breasts.
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I think we\'d be a freer culture of women quite
honestly as were restraining ourselves.
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And I think that you know the whole
Women\'s Movement and burning abroad.
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And I think there was a lot
to be said about that.
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It\'s kinda sad because then that\'s probably
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part of the reason that girls or
women don\'t feel as comfortable
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with their breast because they feel
like they have to hide them with
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these bribes narrow padded beg
and they cover the whole thing
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The paradigms that are given to
us and I hope that amongst each
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other at least we can feel
free and safe to expose.
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So I was wearing the scarf this morning
and I actually around my throat.
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Somehow feels that that\'s an area
that needs to be protected at times.
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And then I thought it would be nice to
have a zipper so I can slowly unzip.
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And then under there I decided you
know I knew what I was doing.
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I decided to guess I\'ll I\'ll
take this out to where the bra
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and make that part of
what I wanted to show.
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Because like look what I\'m
what I was saying before
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how did it protects and
and I mean I don\'t know
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if you can see it but when
I\'ll take it off even leaves
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marks on my skin because
it\'s a little bit too tight.
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And you know this is kind of security because
we never really know if my nipples are out.
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So I guess it\'s still a
little bit disconnected.
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Because there are still seeing some more TS
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The first time I\'m really
it\'s like you\'re asking
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the question was the first time
I expose my breast and I\'m
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kinda like John Bill who
who who got it first.
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I would have to say I\'m
definitely in high school
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Did I would certainly it would not be in
the daylight but it would be in a Chevy.
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When I first trivial my breasts and I was
only 14 I pretended I was asleep I didn\'t
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reveal and I let him look and touch
and I loved it but I couldn\'t
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pass a boy or a girl was not allowed
or Catholic or on top of that Yao.
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But I found a way without
being responsible.
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Whenever I would be intimate with someone
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I would always enter the intimacy
aka being naked with sort of you
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know sort of Haiti nervousness
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kind of trying to be sexy but sort of
trying to hide them at the same time.
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It was an interesting dance.
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I can honestly say that I
don\'t even know if I really
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exposed my breasts but there\'s
always the lifting up
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the kinda getting to the
broad and kinda help in
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the mountain maneuver
and it\'s like can he do
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it Guinea and do it it\'s like moist
query for when he can do it.
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And then you know the Brazos
kinda hanging there there\'s no
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lifting the shirt over your head or the
sweater so it\'s up all underneath this stuff.
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So nobody is really looking at
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Yet there at the moment of
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voluntary intimacy in the early years were
actually with girls with a particular.
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She was actually a woman a young
woman a few years older than
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me and it was very different
than it would have been with
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a boy because it wasn\'t the
taboo of the foreign land
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and we both had breasts and hers were
bigger and it made the exploration.
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I think a little more fun.
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Guy wasn\'t charged in the same way.
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It would have been one of the boys.
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One of the first times I had
a boy touched my breast he\'d
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just soon as he got to my
breast he just stopped. Then
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It\'s just awful for me because of course
in my mind who knows what he was thinking.
00:20:17.870 --> 00:20:22.549
But in my mind men I thought he just
he just made just made him stop.
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The whole second base thing.
I didn\'t get it.
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It\'s like okay he\'s got
his hand on my boobs.
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Why it didn\'t feel like anything to
me I had no sensation whatsoever.
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Oh what pleasure Oh isn\'t a pleasure
to have breaths when you make love.
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And you woman who are so multi erotically
centered have many other options.
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But I hope this is one. You won\'t miss
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Oh yes my becoming aware of my breasts.
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As a source of pleasure didn\'t come
tool in my probably in my mid twenties.
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And I was very surprised.
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Okay let\'s talk about nipples.
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My nipples had never
been my erogenous zone.
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So they they it wasn\'t they weren\'t
they weren\'t necessary for play.
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I\'ll never forget this. My friend
told me that she could have
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an orgasm that by having somebody
you know simulator nipples and
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it was like really without the above for me
the blow doesn\'t happen. If you get my drift
00:21:36.730 --> 00:21:44.730
Very obvious that they are the two things
that lead the way my labels are not very
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sensitive which has been
00:21:51.575 --> 00:21:58.339
disappointing and probably why I
don\'t remember the first time.
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Someone touched my breast or maybe
because I was scared to death.
00:22:02.690 --> 00:22:06.829
I was always aware that men.
00:22:06.830 --> 00:22:13.864
The men that I was exploring with wanted to
touch me to touch my breast to arouse them.
00:22:13.865 --> 00:22:19.999
So you know I was trying to hide
that that they weren\'t sensitive
00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:27.184
and trying to sort of act as if they were
nipples absolutely are part of orgasm for me.
00:22:27.185 --> 00:22:29.089
Like bring it on.
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I like to have them stimulated and okay
00:22:32.465 --> 00:22:36.619
let\'s go randomly like I\'ll get colds.
And Austin.
00:22:36.620 --> 00:22:39.799
I feel my nipples like I can
feel them getting so hard.
00:22:39.800 --> 00:22:42.679
They just and it just goes all through me.
00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:44.539
And I can feel it\'s all typically.
00:22:44.540 --> 00:22:46.698
And I\'m like no I\'m very aware of
00:22:46.699 --> 00:22:50.419
my rest that they\'re there and I\'ll touch
them but I\'ll play with my nipples.
00:22:50.420 --> 00:22:52.354
I\'m like it feels kinda guy.
00:22:52.355 --> 00:22:55.399
I was dancing two weeks ago.
00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:59.820
And a young man spoke
poetry to me and my breasts
00:23:02.110 --> 00:23:07.564
And I said I\'m going to have
to tell him I\'m married darn.
00:23:07.565 --> 00:23:14.884
Sometimes I feel that they are an
indirect connection was my Claros.
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Sometimes I feel that they\'re
even more like that.
00:23:18.410 --> 00:23:21.769
It could I could only have I am
not sure if I\'ve experienced that
00:23:21.770 --> 00:23:26.914
but by just being stimulated
through Naples that it\'s orgasmic.
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Well at this particular time because I\'m
00:23:29.990 --> 00:23:33.919
pregnant when my nipples are
touched they\'re pretty sensitive.
00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:37.864
They they burn a little.
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It\'s definitely nothing sexual.
00:23:41.075 --> 00:23:45.078
And I would say that
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It\'s never really been sexual For me.
00:23:48.095 --> 00:23:52.158
I remember many a time when my
nipples were being harassed
00:23:52.159 --> 00:23:56.268
or touched in a in a sexual
way by a partner kinda
00:23:56.269 --> 00:24:00.559
going until they\'ve ever
00:24:00.560 --> 00:24:04.609
done because I felt you know need to
please them they want it they wanna do it.
00:24:04.610 --> 00:24:08.479
Go ahead get it over with please.
00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:13.290
Well my my gardeners say
dim at best kept secret.
00:24:13.660 --> 00:24:20.014
And because he gets to at
times when they\'re in and
00:24:20.015 --> 00:24:26.613
where sexual he gets to play
with them and find swayed to
00:24:26.614 --> 00:24:31.848
Get them out and so I mean he\'s totally
happy with that their relationship I\'m in
00:24:31.849 --> 00:24:33.588
now event together 15 years and
00:24:33.589 --> 00:24:37.504
this the first relationship I\'ve been
in where orgasms were part of it.
00:24:37.505 --> 00:24:40.729
And I suspect it was
probably related to the fact
00:24:40.730 --> 00:24:43.849
that I\'m with someone who is so
into my breasts and my nipples.
00:24:43.850 --> 00:24:50.794
And so having a strong sexual response was a
surprise and having orgasms was a surprise.
00:24:50.795 --> 00:24:58.795
So all of it was a surprise and never occurred
to me that the nipples would my nipples.
00:24:59.840 --> 00:25:02.989
Yes the full-time attached
to would be part of that.
00:25:02.990 --> 00:25:06.289
My husband might be touching me
and my mind is somewhere else.
00:25:06.290 --> 00:25:08.343
I\'m not present
00:25:08.344 --> 00:25:14.479
The actin and he\'ll say for the
weight bad like these connected.
00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:19.533
And I\'ll realize I need
to get in the RAM and
00:25:19.534 --> 00:25:24.109
other times I can feel him wanting
to please me and love me.
00:25:24.110 --> 00:25:26.629
By the way he\'s touching my breast.
00:25:26.630 --> 00:25:30.124
And that will make my nipples are wreck.
00:25:30.125 --> 00:25:32.044
I my breast sensitive.
00:25:32.045 --> 00:25:36.018
It took me until I was 25 to really
00:25:36.019 --> 00:25:41.254
experience what it was like to be
made love to you and me participate.
00:25:41.255 --> 00:25:45.768
That is when I my I would say my nipples
00:25:45.769 --> 00:25:51.843
played a part because my heart pounded
out in my chest through my breath
00:25:51.844 --> 00:25:57.949
and understood that there was something
delicious here and it was love.
00:25:57.950 --> 00:26:01.039
And my body was wet with it.
00:26:01.040 --> 00:26:06.859
My my breast he lived in
a very different way.
00:26:06.860 --> 00:26:13.924
And it was associated with
that place of beauty.
00:26:13.925 --> 00:26:18.574
This is putti is lovemaking was beauty.
00:26:18.575 --> 00:26:19.984
It wasn\'t about sex.
00:26:19.985 --> 00:26:23.404
It was he\'s touching me.
00:26:23.405 --> 00:26:27.120
He\'s kissing me.
00:26:27.280 --> 00:26:30.199
I\'m being loved.
00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.688
My nipples my breasts
00:26:33.689 --> 00:26:36.054
Did not feel ashamed.
00:26:36.055 --> 00:26:42.414
I have this one really
amazing and sweet boyfriend.
00:26:42.415 --> 00:26:44.994
And the first time we were intimate.
00:26:44.995 --> 00:26:49.118
He I was doing that funny awkward
dance and I remember he took
00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.724
my wrists and he separated my arms
put them back on the bed like that.
00:26:53.725 --> 00:26:57.474
And he looked right in my eyes and
he said your breasts are beautiful.
00:26:57.475 --> 00:27:00.984
Just having someone be positive and
00:27:00.985 --> 00:27:05.738
read my body language and they didn\'t have
to communicate the trauma I\'d had for
00:27:05.739 --> 00:27:10.718
so many years and be able to see
into me and understand when you
00:27:10.719 --> 00:27:13.148
get something and it\'s
physical and emotional and
00:27:13.149 --> 00:27:16.259
spiritual mentally then you\'ve really got
00:27:16.260 --> 00:27:18.979
The whole gestalt and that\'s just the best.
00:27:18.980 --> 00:27:22.848
And it\'s just like five minutes
I\'ve had had an orgasm
00:27:22.849 --> 00:27:27.544
I mean sure that can be and I start
to the day and release my back.
00:27:27.545 --> 00:27:32.959
But that\'s not about my breasts then
that\'s not about the fullness that I feel.
00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:39.094
When I\'ve totally engaged my whole
self were multi-faceted we have
00:27:39.095 --> 00:27:46.174
ovaries we have wounds we have vaginas
we have voiceovers we have chlorous.
00:27:46.175 --> 00:27:48.229
We\'re right side left side.
00:27:48.230 --> 00:27:51.454
We have breath we have nipples.
00:27:51.455 --> 00:27:57.558
So some women will be more inclined
to one part than the other
00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:00.694
And our differences make us strong.
00:28:00.695 --> 00:28:03.299
I want to honor that
00:28:15.760 --> 00:28:18.619
the very things that
bothered me the most about
00:28:18.620 --> 00:28:20.479
my breast had been great for nursing home.
00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:24.319
My nipples are too vague and look how
easy it is for the BMI to see that too
00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:28.939
dark and so BEG without when I\'m not
nursing That\'s a really negative thing.
00:28:28.940 --> 00:28:32.014
But when I am nursing it\'s like
oh it\'s this great design.
00:28:32.015 --> 00:28:36.004
They stick out their easy to
latch onto their easy to find.
00:28:36.005 --> 00:28:39.799
And babies always loved them so
much the pet them and love them and
00:28:39.800 --> 00:28:43.789
That\'s the kinda touch. I love when
you have a baby who\'s nursing on you.
00:28:43.790 --> 00:28:46.429
And they\'re just petting you and looking at
00:28:46.430 --> 00:28:49.218
us and smiling and their
eyes rolling because they\'re
00:28:49.219 --> 00:28:53.058
just getting this wonderful yummy milk and
00:28:53.059 --> 00:28:57.229
they\'re seeing their mom and it\'s
just skin to skin connection.
00:28:57.230 --> 00:28:59.314
That is a sensation I love.
00:28:59.315 --> 00:29:01.338
Initially nursing was like
00:29:01.339 --> 00:29:08.089
our little little ones suck and the
breast not being used to that.
00:29:08.090 --> 00:29:14.119
The thing that also is kind of surprising
with nursing was initially being leaky.
00:29:14.120 --> 00:29:18.078
So having to like if I went into town bring
a few changes are closed because you
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.294
know if the milk let down there
goes the shirt. But ultimately
00:29:22.295 --> 00:29:25.698
I feel really happy that I was able
to do that for my two daughters
00:29:25.699 --> 00:29:30.439
their immune systems are strong of
a wonderful connection to them.
00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.219
And I feel like they got
great nourishment from
00:29:34.220 --> 00:29:39.093
a physical bonding as well
as the antibodies and
00:29:39.094 --> 00:29:44.028
all the good vitamins minerals that the
breast milk cans to offer very first time I
00:29:44.029 --> 00:29:50.059
understood my pressed to have another
role was when I was pregnant.
00:29:50.060 --> 00:29:57.934
And I felt my breasts for the first
time because they were more pregnant.
00:29:57.935 --> 00:30:04.563
Then I felt and having
them be pregnant. Felt
00:30:04.564 --> 00:30:11.824
Like I had something to extend and then my
heart made a decision about an abortion.
00:30:11.825 --> 00:30:16.669
Because quite frankly I never
wanted to be a parent to my child.
00:30:16.670 --> 00:30:19.264
The way my parents were parents to me.
00:30:19.265 --> 00:30:26.689
And so I felt them recede
and the sorrow of that.
00:30:26.690 --> 00:30:31.144
But I can honestly say I do not
regret not having children.
00:30:31.145 --> 00:30:39.145
I regret that something inside
me knew something deeper.
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:44.928
I don\'t think we ever
forget or early experience
00:30:44.929 --> 00:30:52.929
And some babies have a euphoria at their
mother\'s breast other babies have colic.
00:30:52.970 --> 00:30:56.823
And I\'m a psychologist
and I work with adults
00:30:56.824 --> 00:31:00.604
whose character was
affected by the experience.
00:31:00.605 --> 00:31:05.659
And I do absolutely think that a
baby who\'s had that experience
00:31:05.660 --> 00:31:10.639
at their mother\'s breast has that
experience available throughout their life.
00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:16.923
Yes. Well we don\'t talk about the experience
at the breast because our culture wants
00:31:16.924 --> 00:31:20.209
to move away from women\'s
bodies and we\'ve just gone
00:31:20.210 --> 00:31:23.569
through a time and don\'t
forget in the 19 fifties.
00:31:23.570 --> 00:31:27.030
The doctor delivered the baby.
00:31:27.040 --> 00:31:30.514
The woman was the nest the size.
00:31:30.515 --> 00:31:33.739
The baby was taken from her.
00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:37.159
I\'m sorry I guess I I think I got angry.
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:44.748
All I know is when a culture
decides to disconnect from
00:31:44.749 --> 00:31:48.289
it\'s embodied self they have to
start early and they have to
00:31:48.290 --> 00:31:52.980
start with separating infants
from the mother\'s breast
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.724
A negative relationship was my breast
understand breasts are very powerful.
00:32:12.725 --> 00:32:14.299
They feed us.
00:32:14.300 --> 00:32:18.319
They are the food for our
infants for our babies.
00:32:18.320 --> 00:32:20.329
They\'re the perfect food for them.
00:32:20.330 --> 00:32:21.769
There\'s nothing that they can imitate.
00:32:21.770 --> 00:32:23.899
There is better. Business is huge.
00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:29.014
This is the first thing we depend on
when we come out of the womb to survive.
00:32:29.015 --> 00:32:33.708
And to turn these beautiful tools
00:32:33.709 --> 00:32:38.388
these nurturing and parts of our
bodies into something that is
00:32:38.389 --> 00:32:44.629
improper and anti moral and
should be covered and is
00:32:44.630 --> 00:32:47.478
offensive and please leave
the restaurant or go nurse
00:32:47.479 --> 00:32:50.958
your baby in a bathroom stall.
All this stuff is just
00:32:50.959 --> 00:32:55.459
I saw ridiculous I don\'t
know it just makes me wonder
00:32:55.460 --> 00:32:58.159
what what were we told what
00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:01.384
what happened all of a sudden we
had to cover ourselves as women.
00:33:01.385 --> 00:33:03.739
And what makes it different for men.
00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:10.668
They have breast to why are we so
embarrassed and ashamed and why is it
00:33:10.669 --> 00:33:14.208
always a you know why is it always
speaking for itself I can\'t
00:33:14.209 --> 00:33:18.543
just be that we want to be natural and
00:33:18.544 --> 00:33:23.898
And feel the water when we go
swimming on our breaths and feel
00:33:23.899 --> 00:33:30.964
the air as it coerces feel another
part of our body kinda moving around.
00:33:30.965 --> 00:33:33.078
You know what it would be like
if women can take their tops
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:35.299
off of the beach it would be like nothing.
00:33:35.300 --> 00:33:40.789
It would be like totally normal
because it\'s just a part of our body.
00:33:40.790 --> 00:33:46.354
My sister and I believe I was my early
twenties and she\'s three years younger.
00:33:46.355 --> 00:33:50.688
We came to America for the first
time on vacation and went to LA
00:33:50.689 --> 00:33:55.309
and we\'re so happy to see the beach
and out of the plane like 120 array.
00:33:55.310 --> 00:34:00.543
So we were ready to go in
the ocean and so we took
00:34:00.544 --> 00:34:06.439
Everything except for our bikini
underwear so to speak and
00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:10.248
tuplets I mean that\'s what we\'re used to in
00:34:10.249 --> 00:34:14.989
Holland and several other places in Europe
where we normally would go on vacation.
00:34:14.990 --> 00:34:19.159
And before we even like could reach
the water there was like a lifeguard
00:34:19.160 --> 00:34:23.449
running after us right away and
and we\'re like what\'s going on.
00:34:23.450 --> 00:34:26.719
And so he we realized that we were
00:34:26.720 --> 00:34:30.528
visiting and we were from Europe
and but he was he took us back
00:34:30.529 --> 00:34:35.778
to our parents because my parents are
supportive of that as well and explain to
00:34:35.779 --> 00:34:38.014
them you know it\'s it\'s really I
00:34:38.015 --> 00:34:41.464
mean I could have arrested them
I could have find them ie.
00:34:41.465 --> 00:34:46.908
This is a big deal and so can you please
tell your daughters to put on their tops
00:34:46.909 --> 00:34:54.739
and I mean I realize like wow did this feeling
of that you have done something wrong.
00:34:54.740 --> 00:34:56.794
I almost feel like we evolved.
00:34:56.795 --> 00:35:00.949
We devolved that at some point we are
00:35:00.950 --> 00:35:05.719
very accepting of women sometimes
covering up for various reasons
00:35:05.720 --> 00:35:08.958
and sometimes taking off
and then shifted and band
00:35:08.959 --> 00:35:14.779
a blame women for being provocative for asking
for something just by exposing themselves.
00:35:14.780 --> 00:35:22.780
This culture seems to have lost some
maturity or ability to maintain control
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:30.919
the responsibility of maintaining control for
themselves and and put it on a woman and
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.519
say if you\'re if you\'re gonna
do that you\'re causing me to
00:35:34.520 --> 00:35:38.374
act and appropriately
and that makes me mad.
00:35:38.375 --> 00:35:41.433
What is the culture for people who
want to control people I mean
00:35:41.434 --> 00:35:44.509
I think at this point in
time I kinda look and go.
00:35:44.510 --> 00:35:47.749
Oh my gosh you know these
people really have power
00:35:47.750 --> 00:35:51.919
And they can put heavy fines that
can make things uncomfortable.
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:57.229
They kinda control where money is spent
and where things are are allocated.
00:35:57.230 --> 00:36:00.754
You\'re only exposed when it\'s
supposed to turn somebody on.
00:36:00.755 --> 00:36:06.649
That\'s it that\'s all they\'re used for
is to turn people on and to control us.
00:36:06.650 --> 00:36:10.324
And the way we feel about them and to control
men in the way they feel about them.
00:36:10.325 --> 00:36:17.884
These things these funny globular things
that they do have such power is obvious.
00:36:17.885 --> 00:36:23.659
I would like to live in a culture
where it\'s okay for me to be topless
00:36:23.660 --> 00:36:30.269
and not worry about what it
might mean to someone else
00:36:46.720 --> 00:36:50.208
If you showed a certain amount of body you
00:36:50.209 --> 00:36:53.074
are considered a very naughty
girl or downright a whore.
00:36:53.075 --> 00:36:56.524
So I mean we\'re talking in the fifties
in the sixties and growing up
00:36:56.525 --> 00:37:01.129
where your skirts had to be a certain length
your buttons had to come up a certain way.
00:37:01.130 --> 00:37:06.364
And I didn\'t have a lot of
body image to even SaaS width.
00:37:06.365 --> 00:37:08.239
I have really aren\'t in a postcard.
00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:12.288
I hardly ever see them soft and people have
00:37:12.289 --> 00:37:14.958
Told me they\'re a little put off about it
00:37:14.959 --> 00:37:17.824
but other friends are like
why it\'s great it\'s fine.
00:37:17.825 --> 00:37:19.698
But if I\'m walking down the street or in
00:37:19.699 --> 00:37:22.819
a store and you know I\'m
just there I\'ll hide Lehman.
00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:26.748
They\'re looking at them and there
have been times where I\'ve
00:37:26.749 --> 00:37:30.409
covered you know my nipples
up because a mug is
00:37:30.410 --> 00:37:35.299
this gross is this bad is this trashy the
large breasts were getting me yell dad
00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:40.309
and whistled and all that stuff on
the street and I wanted it to stop.
00:37:40.310 --> 00:37:44.824
So not having breast or having small lots.
I love small.
00:37:44.825 --> 00:37:49.098
To me was a way to be powerful and
it wasn\'t that I didn\'t want to be
00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:54.739
a girl Claiborne raised to like being a
girl but I didn\'t want those damn curves
00:37:54.740 --> 00:37:57.169
that was problematic.
00:37:57.170 --> 00:38:02.149
So I tried to change my body
through controlling it.
00:38:02.150 --> 00:38:07.414
And there\'s this idea that anorexia is
about denying majority or womanhood.
00:38:07.415 --> 00:38:10.774
No I wanted power to be safe.
00:38:10.775 --> 00:38:13.999
And I saw this as a means to do that.
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:19.579
And always felt strange to me when
people said oh is about denying women.
00:38:19.580 --> 00:38:23.839
Like hey was something
totally different for me.
00:38:23.840 --> 00:38:30.408
It\'s religion really is the
story of Adam and Eve and Eve
00:38:30.409 --> 00:38:33.379
dropped the ball that we could
have gone up for all of
00:38:33.380 --> 00:38:36.888
eternity in our natural cloudless state
00:38:36.889 --> 00:38:40.894
and not have anything to
be wrong but if was bad.
00:38:40.895 --> 00:38:45.829
And therefore I think anything
that calls attention to what is
00:38:45.830 --> 00:38:52.279
uniquely family and about our bodies and
probably also about our way of being is bad.
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.348
I think I had multiple seeds of
confusion planted as a little kid about
00:38:57.349 --> 00:39:03.364
my body because we were a feminist
intelligent educated household.
00:39:03.365 --> 00:39:08.314
I was raised that my body
is a good day verbally.
00:39:08.315 --> 00:39:12.739
But there was sexual abuse
in my life as a kid.
00:39:12.740 --> 00:39:16.369
So while there is a verbal message
of your body is a good thing.
00:39:16.370 --> 00:39:17.674
Love your body.
00:39:17.675 --> 00:39:22.698
Cif Ms. Magazine says love your
body and I had those examples but
00:39:22.699 --> 00:39:27.784
my body was also a place of pain
and confusion from sexual abuse.
00:39:27.785 --> 00:39:30.859
So there\'s always been this this battle of
00:39:30.860 --> 00:39:34.804
what I\'m tot isn\'t always
what is socially taught
00:39:34.805 --> 00:39:39.439
We are down the beach and the
car making out and it was
00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:43.684
like one of those great sexual
moments and it\'s oral sex.
00:39:43.685 --> 00:39:47.790
And often there\'s a knockoff
window and it\'s a policeman.
00:39:49.120 --> 00:39:53.449
And you fumble and you tumble and scary.
00:39:53.450 --> 00:39:57.394
And this that and the policeman is
like my heart speeding right now.
00:39:57.395 --> 00:39:59.959
The policeman said Get dressed.
00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:04.339
And so I\'ve pulled up my pants
that I\'ve taught was on and
00:40:04.340 --> 00:40:08.599
kinda over one side steamy
windows the whole shebang.
00:40:08.600 --> 00:40:15.409
And he said contrast we\'re
taking you home drive her home.
00:40:15.410 --> 00:40:17.029
And I can honestly
00:40:17.030 --> 00:40:19.998
and say that it was the
first time I went in
00:40:19.999 --> 00:40:24.978
saying that I was in that car and
Bill when to start the car and I
00:40:24.979 --> 00:40:28.669
went insane screamed yelled kit
00:40:28.670 --> 00:40:30.829
frantic to the point where
00:40:30.830 --> 00:40:34.309
the policemen came over because I was beating
up on him that you will not take me home.
00:40:34.310 --> 00:40:37.459
You will not take me to my father
because my father would have killed me.
00:40:37.460 --> 00:40:39.649
I mean we got beaten.
00:40:39.650 --> 00:40:42.108
And if I came home with a policeman for
00:40:42.109 --> 00:40:44.929
sexual exposure at the beach
where everybody went to
00:40:44.930 --> 00:40:50.584
make out I can\'t imagine what
would have happened to me.
00:40:50.585 --> 00:40:58.230
Regardless this policeman because he
came he sat down next to me a gun.
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:01.099
And I just said you can\'t take me home.
00:41:01.100 --> 00:41:04.129
You cannot take me to the house.
00:41:04.130 --> 00:41:11.430
And I think he saw something in me
that I didn\'t know happened to me.
00:41:11.740 --> 00:41:15.499
And I think he understood
what I would have to go
00:41:15.500 --> 00:41:18.618
through for him to be a
good policeman was to
00:41:18.619 --> 00:41:26.010
talk to me in that moment rather than
be take this girl to the gallows.
00:41:27.160 --> 00:41:35.160
And so interestingly enough
I\'m stuffing everything.
00:41:35.855 --> 00:41:41.418
My sexuality just turned off it was. It was
00:41:41.419 --> 00:41:47.073
Be quiet was timed to be
I think safe with myself
00:41:47.074 --> 00:41:53.299
and know that it didn\'t matter what I was
feeling that I wasn\'t telling myself feel it.
00:41:53.300 --> 00:42:01.300
Because the consequences were far too
dangerous truly far too dangerous.
00:42:01.700 --> 00:42:09.604
With sexualized in this culture the body in
these very cut up literally strange ways.
00:42:09.605 --> 00:42:13.099
And so here are all these women running
around with their breast covered up and
00:42:13.100 --> 00:42:16.519
smush so they\'re not going to be really
sensitive because they\'re all smushed.
00:42:16.520 --> 00:42:19.339
And then we cut off the
forest skin of our man.
00:42:19.340 --> 00:42:24.600
So there so over sensitized
that they aren\'t sensitive.
00:42:25.560 --> 00:42:29.273
We\'re covering up what should
be left out in the open and
00:42:29.274 --> 00:42:33.414
uncovering with man what should be covered
00:42:33.415 --> 00:42:41.415
and that\'s where I go when I think about
them neurological with breasts and bras.
00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:47.649
And if we\'ve got them always suppressed and
cooked in and what\'s that doing to us.
00:42:47.650 --> 00:42:50.003
And and I\'m thinking the whole cultural
00:42:50.004 --> 00:42:52.329
again because I think it\'s
interesting I went right to
00:42:52.330 --> 00:42:59.030
circumcision and how we
separate and do whatever is.
00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:03.529
The fastest way to shut down that energy
00:43:15.810 --> 00:43:19.134
Breast cancer is man-made.
00:43:19.135 --> 00:43:23.589
Procedure is man-made it\'s
foreign things entering
00:43:23.590 --> 00:43:28.719
our body but we took thousands
of years to evolve.
00:43:28.720 --> 00:43:34.689
How do you think about an organic
being doesn\'t evolve that you want to
00:43:34.690 --> 00:43:41.750
throw all kinds of foreign objects
into a slowly evolving system.
00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:45.729
It\'s killing a great number of us.
00:43:45.730 --> 00:43:48.894
But even that doesn\'t stop us.
00:43:48.895 --> 00:43:51.584
So how amazing we are
00:43:51.585 --> 00:43:57.799
that we can poison ourselves and
our children and not be stopped.
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:00.724
It\'s quite something to be human.
00:44:00.725 --> 00:44:04.789
I had a nurse practitioner who was very
00:44:04.790 --> 00:44:12.064
soft very much a Buddhist and her medical
practice was part of her spiritual practice.
00:44:12.065 --> 00:44:13.938
And when she would talk
to me about it and would
00:44:13.939 --> 00:44:15.769
actually say things like
are you checking for
00:44:15.770 --> 00:44:22.249
lumps or engage with me
it made me want to do it.
00:44:22.250 --> 00:44:28.354
Now still fighting with having a
body so it was hard to remember.
00:44:28.355 --> 00:44:32.850
But it put it on my horizon
in a different way.
00:44:33.010 --> 00:44:37.398
Somewhat feel a little bit doomed
to get breast cancer had a
00:44:37.399 --> 00:44:41.464
few of my cousins and and die.
00:44:41.465 --> 00:44:43.804
So I have a ton of fear about it.
00:44:43.805 --> 00:44:45.109
It\'s pretty huge for me.
00:44:45.110 --> 00:44:47.104
I think about it a little too much.
00:44:47.105 --> 00:44:50.449
Oh I was afraid.
00:44:50.450 --> 00:44:53.448
Not only was I afraid of
breast cancer because of
00:44:53.449 --> 00:44:57.874
my my grandmother having it I
felt powerless to stop it.
00:44:57.875 --> 00:45:03.469
I almost felt like I was on a path that was
gonna happen and I instead of checking
00:45:03.470 --> 00:45:09.454
to make sure I was staying healthy it
felt like checking to find the problem.
00:45:09.455 --> 00:45:12.289
People don\'t talk about having to heal from
00:45:12.290 --> 00:45:15.859
the treatment and that troubles
me I\'m very worried for women.
00:45:15.860 --> 00:45:18.529
But there again I\'m getting subjective.
00:45:18.530 --> 00:45:20.449
Obviously women go on.
00:45:20.450 --> 00:45:22.669
I don\'t know I needed to heal.
00:45:22.670 --> 00:45:26.659
And so I could listen to my inner
voice like when I was in chemo
00:45:26.660 --> 00:45:31.939
my body told me I was in danger
that the poison was too strong.
00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:36.123
And I felt frightened and I stood in
the middle of the room and I asked
00:45:36.124 --> 00:45:41.059
Well what can I do and
it said go to the river.
00:45:41.060 --> 00:45:47.388
And I got in my car and I drove to the
food bank farm and there\'s a gentle river
00:45:47.389 --> 00:45:54.510
behind and I stripped my clothes and
I lay in that stream for two hours.
00:45:55.000 --> 00:46:01.879
And when I came out I had no experience
of being in camo whatsoever.
00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:09.880
I was fully natural and embodied and
alive for awhile till my next camo.
00:46:09.890 --> 00:46:15.958
They move in the direction of our predominant
thoughts and I almost felt like I was on
00:46:15.959 --> 00:46:22.969
a wild train ride of negative
unhealthy God\'s uncompressed.
00:46:22.970 --> 00:46:29.659
It\'s just being in the conversation.
00:46:29.660 --> 00:46:32.988
What what question do you
have about your breast
00:46:32.989 --> 00:46:37.428
completely changed stop that
train and turned it around
00:46:37.429 --> 00:46:42.799
I\'m now having conversations with
my bras about how I want them to be
00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:44.958
healthy and with me for the rest of
00:46:44.959 --> 00:46:49.774
my life and that I\'m going
to take better care of them.
00:46:49.775 --> 00:46:57.775
But also that that term that
we\'re going to be fine.
00:46:59.810 --> 00:47:05.099
And we are not going to be sick
00:47:18.940 --> 00:47:22.849
Yesterday I was doing a workshop
and one of the students was
00:47:22.850 --> 00:47:27.064
saying I wish I had the balls to
do with that but I said balls.
00:47:27.065 --> 00:47:33.244
How do you got what you want to
polish on me wanna stand them love.
00:47:33.245 --> 00:47:35.299
You want to bring them
out you want to stand
00:47:35.300 --> 00:47:38.239
there and be proud that
you don\'t need balls.
00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:41.359
You you don\'t need them.
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:43.204
You have breasts.
00:47:43.205 --> 00:47:50.448
You have power you have identity and stand
and be awake with the fact that these
00:47:50.449 --> 00:47:58.204
have power and that power it can
stop anybody in their tracks.
00:47:58.205 --> 00:48:02.208
I think even through ancient
history I mean the way in which
00:48:02.209 --> 00:48:05.613
Are portrayed in the images
that we see through time
00:48:05.614 --> 00:48:09.468
Ancient Egypt and Africa women
are walking with their breasts
00:48:09.469 --> 00:48:14.064
exposed there standing
there queens and Pharaohs.
00:48:14.065 --> 00:48:17.269
And and the breast are
prominent in these images.
00:48:17.270 --> 00:48:19.294
I\'ve never thought about this before.
00:48:19.295 --> 00:48:23.970
But in this moment I can see
the power of the breast.
00:48:24.580 --> 00:48:30.604
It. I keep meeting women who knock me out.
00:48:30.605 --> 00:48:35.389
Ordinary women like
myself who can listen to
00:48:35.390 --> 00:48:40.534
and the wisdom that\'s in their
body and heal themselves.
00:48:40.535 --> 00:48:47.614
I think that after many years of really ignoring
them not thinking very much about them.
00:48:47.615 --> 00:48:52.368
I think now I\'m much more
conscious of them and I I tend
00:48:52.369 --> 00:48:57.934
to hold them and massage them
and work to keep them healthy.
00:48:57.935 --> 00:49:01.924
I have I have breast consciousness
now where there once was none.
00:49:01.925 --> 00:49:07.849
And after years of hating my body
I\'ve begun to love myself as I am.
00:49:07.850 --> 00:49:11.464
And I think maybe that\'s all tied into
how I\'m feeling about my breast Now.
00:49:11.465 --> 00:49:17.133
My relationship with my breaths right now
is a little foreign a little surprising
00:49:17.134 --> 00:49:23.554
And actually intriguing because I\'m in men
applause and all of a sudden I\'ve got breast.
00:49:23.555 --> 00:49:27.783
Keep no it\'s like where did these come from
00:49:27.784 --> 00:49:31.864
N2 all of a sudden go like this it what
the heck them by touching and it\'s me.
00:49:31.865 --> 00:49:35.584
And so I\'m aware of them
in a very different way.
00:49:35.585 --> 00:49:40.680
And I\'d have to say they\'re almost
aware of me in a different way.
00:49:51.040 --> 00:49:59.040
I remember this so beautifully seeing an
elderly woman walk naked with dignity
00:49:59.894 --> 00:50:06.200
And her body was well arc
00:50:06.450 --> 00:50:11.724
was well r. And she was
comfortable in her body.
00:50:11.725 --> 00:50:13.793
And I think it\'s the first
time I actually saw
00:50:13.794 --> 00:50:16.659
a woman in her body that
I would like to say.
00:50:16.660 --> 00:50:19.524
That would be some way
I would like to walk.
00:50:19.525 --> 00:50:22.809
I can see in my family choices that
00:50:22.810 --> 00:50:27.684
my great grandmother made that
have influenced my life today.
00:50:27.685 --> 00:50:30.354
And I am deeply grateful for it.
00:50:30.355 --> 00:50:35.499
And I would like to be able to pass on
to my to my daughter loving your body.
00:50:35.500 --> 00:50:38.154
And I\'d be happy with not hating your body.
00:50:38.155 --> 00:50:40.059
That would be really good.
00:50:40.060 --> 00:50:41.879
Then the front of our body
00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:49.219
Their courage there are cache
which so lucky as women to
00:50:49.220 --> 00:50:56.749
have them from a woman is taught
to touch her breasts with love.
00:50:56.750 --> 00:51:00.000
And with the energy of life.
00:51:03.100 --> 00:51:09.499
Who knows what would happen
I can honestly say to you.
00:51:09.500 --> 00:51:14.989
This may be the first time in my life my
breasts and I are befriending each other.
00:51:14.990 --> 00:51:22.009
And if I die and we did
something really great.
00:51:22.010 --> 00:51:24.229
I\'m a Whole Woman
00:51:24.230 --> 00:51:29.254
As I sit here with here I believe that
00:51:29.255 --> 00:51:35.520
women have a great part in
what\'s ahead in our history.
00:51:35.560 --> 00:51:41.269
What\'s ahead for the future of the planet
I believe that women have a great part.
00:51:41.270 --> 00:51:46.289
So perhaps this breast consciousness
00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:52.129
is not only timely but needed.
00:51:52.130 --> 00:51:56.370
And we\'re ready for it.
00:52:18.580 --> 00:52:20.880
Got
00:52:37.240 --> 00:52:39.509
that
00:52:48.070 --> 00:52:50.370
my
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:22.188
Name
00:53:22.189 --> 00:53:24.900
is John.
00:54:02.050 --> 00:54:04.440
Yes.
00:54:12.550 --> 00:54:14.999
Okay
Distributor: First Run Features
Length: 57 minutes
Date: 2018
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Closed Captioning: Available
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