Scoop’s Views

I love numbers. I love statistics. I love women. I love full breasts. At first glance, it appears I am saying that I would be one of those guys in email, IM, or other chat, asking, “So, honey, what are your measurements?” Then I slap myself back to reality, knowing that most Gen X and Gen Y types don’t call — and don’t know that us Baby Boomers used a lot of innuendo.

Seemingly innocent phrases, such as, “Her vital statistics are …”, were used back in the 1970s and early-to-mid-1980s to tell of a woman’s measurements. As society continued onward, not necessarily upward, things became more direct. Innuendo and imagination were suddenly beginning to take the backseat to bluntness in all of society.

One thing I’ve always had a passion for doing online is checking various statistics, such as Web visitors, common search terms, traffic paths, and other trends.

While looking over recent hits to my site this morning, I noticed many hits as a result of one common phrase: “how big is a e-cup bra?” Aside from sighing at the poor grammatical skills of 32 people making that exact search, which lead to my site, I laughed knowing why my site turned up in such a search.

As I said early on, and as clear in at least several posts on my site, I like women who have meat on their bones, so long as they have what some would describe as “ample breasts” or “an ample bosom.” Some guys would call a B-cup or C-cup “ample”, and some actually say a C-cup is “large.” In fact, I know some guys who will get into a fistfight with anyone challenging their notion that C-cup breasts are “large” — as in very big, not large as in “bigger than a B-cup.”

According to Rebecca Newman of Britain’s Daily Telegraph, being sized correctly for a bra is important for a woman’s comfort. In writing about finding a bra that fits, Newman went to two of Britain’s top retailers, and then proceeds to take off her top, in photos and on video, for the Daily Telegraph’s readers. Once partially undressed, Newman is then measured for in what seemingly is her first bra fitting.

I’m not sure how many reporters, especially women, would partially disrobe, especially on video, as “part of the job.” Rebecca Newman’s bra-fitting video, for those who will find this page, is still online at The Daily Telegraph’s site.

In the July 20, 2007 issue of Time magazine, there’s an article, “If Your Bra Doesn’t Fit, Go Shopping”, by Ana Marie Cox, which says the “big four” bra manufacturers in the U.S. has said bra sizes for U.S. women have gone from a 32B to a 36C.

It was during the 1970s, according to Beverly Johnson, of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, when the manufacturers last sat down to figure out the “average” bust size of American women.

So, while women’s breasts are getting larger as time goes on — something that’s been linked to use of the birth control pill — so do women’s overall “sizes” in society, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which tracks many interesting statistics.

The current average American woman is five feet 3.7 inches tall, and weighs 152 pounds. For those of you fretting over a specific body mass index, the average American woman’s BMI is 26.3, which is just less than the average American man’s BMI.

For those curious about comparing the sexes, the average American male is five feet 9.1 inches tall and weighs in at 180 pounds, and has a body mass index of 26.5.

So, back to those statistics I found this morning.

Almost fifty percent of the statistics appear to be women, as they went to women’s shopping sites upon leaving, and some came from similar sites.

Others, however, leave me at odds about the gender. Some of the visitors came from sites featuring lesbian or other sex-based sites.

As I said, it is interesting what you can learn about people through statistics. What are your statistics?

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