<![CDATA[Jezebel: Tit Chat]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Tit Chat]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/tit chat http://jezebel.com/tag/tit chat <![CDATA[Breasts And Older Broads: Going, Going, Gone]]> We're aware that our breasts will sag as we get older, but we didn't know that they'd deflate completely. But that's what apparently happens, as detailed in a funny piece on Salon written by internist R. Jan Gurley. Dr. Gurley explains that, although there is a medically-recognized timeline of the five stages of breast development called the "Tanner scale" (named for pediatrician Dr. James Mourilyan Tanner), anything charting the shrinkage of breast tissue has been, for the most part, completely ignored by the medical community. Says Gurley:
I mean, why is the growth of breasts named after a man? And what the heck happened to the stages of breast regression? My friends and I want to talk about all the stuff happening to our own bodies as we cruise toward menopause, but we don't have anything like the Tanner stages to use as code. I'm guessing guys have been more interested in describing breast expansion than regression.
Eager to take the matter of breasts into her own hands, Dr. Gurley came up with her own phases of breast regression, which she named, naturally, after herself. More »
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