Few men alive understand Smart Sensuality women better than designer Tom Ford. Four years ago today, I shared Tom Ford’s views on his lack of appreciation for ‘bombshell breasts.

Tom Ford tells Vogue: “The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love. I want to be touching the skin; I prefer no bra — I want to be able to slip in my hand.”

Oh Tom! Can you imagine Karl Lagerfeld making such a statement!

I rest my case to Victoria’s Secret: we are TIRED of bombing up the world. We want to be Snake Charmers not bombshells. Glad to see that Tom Ford agrees with me.

British Researchers Discover Preferred Breast

Before and after breast images from breastenlargementi.comBritish researchers now conclude in a study in the September issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery that Tom Ford probably knows what he’s talking about. The doctors surveyed 1,315 men, women and plastic surgeons, asking them to look at multiple breasts photos and pick their preferred proportions. In a world where unanimity — let alone general agreement — on any topic is impossible to achieve, all three groups picked the same ratio: 45:55, meaning that 45 percent of breast tissue falls above the nipple line and 55 percent below.

This ‘natural’ shape is nothing like the bombshell-orbs so many American women seek. Note that European women are more circumspect on this subject, especially in France where it’s all about one’s fesse (derriere). We are speaking of a primarily American pursuit of bombshell breasts.

“Particularly in the United States in previous decades, plastic surgeons have used implants that were often round due to being filled with saline,” wrote researchers Dr. Patrick Mallucci of The Cadogan Clinic and Dr. Olivier Branford of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust in an email. “These inevitably gave an unnatural football-like or ‘Baywatch’ breast with overfilling of the top of the breast due to the implant shape and lack of understanding as to what to aim for.

The only exception to the preferred 45:55 proportion ratio in breasts was in women over 40. “As the breast ages,” wrote the researchers, “it becomes more fatty, the skin sags and the nipple falls, often with breast volume loss.” It’s understandable that women over 40 are sensitive to these bodily changes.

British doctors were unequivocal that beer commercial aside, “Preconceptions that men prefer an artificial augmented look are false.”

An American View

American doctors sought to replicate the study in this study in this live video. Their anecdotal results agreed with the British researchers that the 45:55 proportion is most preferred.

Oprah Offers A Twist

Oprah.com offers up a thoughtful article on breast implants through the eyes of a man who had up-front and personal experience with them. After discussing the pros and cons over the course of his augmented breast experience — and those of his guy friends — it seems that this chap agrees that natural breasts are better, except:

For many men, the self-consciousness of breast implants is a remarkable, and I think legitimate, turn-on. To them it feels like an offering. “You can’t deny the power of it,” a buddy told me of sleeping with his girlfriend now that she’s had augmentation. He deeply appreciates the change, though he never asked for it or even felt unhappy with the real thing. The implants, he says, solved something for her, not him. “She did this thing. She decided to make this change. It filled something up in her.” I laughed at the pun, but he shook his head. “We don’t even joke about it because it’s that real. It made things better for her somehow. And you know, that’s just better for both of us.”

I asked if he could tell the difference—meaning could he feel the implants themselves? “Sure,” he said. “It’s not the same. Not at all. The great part is she’s the same woman, but she’s, well, she’s just more.” I got that straightaway. It wasn’t size or volume at issue. It was a question of appetite, his and hers. In this, the very best case I could imagine, the implants brought together the lodestars of great sex, or maybe desire itself—wanting more and being more, all in the same moment.

Key point in case you missed it: implants = woman who wants and enjoys great sex!!

Note that the positive psychological attributes for this one particular woman with breast implants are different from wearing a ‘bombshell’ bra — where there is eventually a moment of reakoning when said ‘bombshell’ bra is removed. If one could ever get honest answers out of both parties, this could be a most interesting research study for Victoria’s Secret. ~ Anne