    videos in the "woman with large breasts not wearing 
    a bra does something mundane" genre with multiple millions 
    of views.

Anecdata: even if they're wearing bras and not dressed in a revealing way and it's a still photo... the views will pour in.

I've had a Flickr account for about 20 years. I used to run a community and I took a lot of pictures at our gatherings, which were primarily 20-somethings. Some photos had 100-1000x the views of other pictures and it took me a while to figure out why.

The photos with surprising view counts had women with large chests.

I know how obvious that sounds but many of these photos were so lowkey that... trust me, it was not obvious. For some of these photos, we're talking about something that would not be out of place as a yearbook photo or hanging on a church's bulletin board. It would just be a group photo of people hanging out, nothing sexy or revealing, and rando woman #7 in the photo might be apparently chesty. And it would have 100x the views of other photos from that event.

Interesting and amusing.

There are a number of ways you could think about it. Some views might be attributable to people who can't access explicit content due to parental controls or local laws but I have a hunch some people actually prefer this sort of thing to explicit content.

(I also wonder if there's a slight voyeuristic/nonconsensual appeal to these photos. Which ties back in to the opening paragraph of the linked article...)

It also underscored for me how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized no matter what they do or wear.

▲ switchbak 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> how women, especially women with certain bodies, can't escape being sexualized

Give it a while, everyone falls off the attractiveness escalator eventually. For some the only thing worse than being objectified is being invisible.

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NewJazz 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And for others, finally being invisible and not subject to leering in public and online is a mercy.

	▲	switchbak 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If that's all you need, you can always wear an oversized t-shirt with a wolf howling at the moon. Or maybe that only works for men.

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swed420 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> For some the only thing worse than being objectified is being invisible.

"It's a Wonderful Chest" from Chappelle's Show was ahead of the curve(s) on this.

▲ ClikeX 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Go to any photography subreddit that's not already focused on nudity or sex. Any photo with naked women will get more upvotes than most other submissions. It can be an objectively bad photo, that doesn't really matter.

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etra0 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I can totally attest this.

I was an avid viewer of r/analog. I don't know if this was 'recent' or not, but every time someone post a naked picture, either good or not, it goes rapidly to Top posts.

Even though it used to had many comments like "This photo is not interesting other than the naked woman", the upvotes arrived anyway.

I think nowadays they mostly block the comments in those posts, but what used to be an inspiring subreddit that would pop from time to time in my feed, is not longer that interesting to me.

	▲	rafabulsing 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I still find that one to be one of the better photography subreddits, but I do agree that that's been happening a bit too often lately. (I'd also love recommendations of other good photography related subreddits, if you have any!)

▲ saulpw 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I have a hunch some people actually prefer this sort of thing to explicit content.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2busty2hide/

▲ gavinray 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The pragmatic takeaway is "making yourself more attractive will make people x100 more interested in seeing you."

So at least there's that.

	▲	awesome_dude 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hrm, the takeaway is really (IMO) "Have a woman with a big chest in the same picture will get 100x more views"

▲ Dr_Incelheimer 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I feel called out here :( I physically cannot resist on clicking on videos or photos with even mildly attractive women in the thumbnail. Same thing IRL. Which is strange because I don't even care about porn.

▲ fsckboy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

thanks JohnBooty for sharing your insights about women with certain bodies

	▲	xgulfie 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Like the valiant Sir Mix-a-lot before him, he can not lie