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1537581 No.1537581 [Reply] [Original]

When writing about a woman's chest/bra size, generally:


>The number, a.k.a. band size, represents the ribcage -underneath- the actual breast

>The letter, a.k.a. cup size, represents the difference between the fullest part of the chest measurement and the ribcage measurement (Every inch usually corresponds to going up a cup size until D)


Just a heads up because I've seen too many stories with a "petite blonde with a 48DD chest".

>> No.1537598

lawl

>> No.1537609

Agree. Lawl.

>> No.1537694

>>1537581
You really probably shouldn't be relying on cup size in the first place. They take us too far away from the character and the moment. DD is just putting up a flashing sign saying "the girl's tits were huge!" and A-cup is just advertising "this story will appeal to your fetish." You're better off describing them in the context of the characters' feelings or thoughts, that way it stays intimate and powerful.

>> No.1537697

Too complicated. I'll stick to writing gay erotica.

>> No.1537700

>>1537694
you know nothing about the context of OP's story, style or intended audience and made a judgement based on you petty and transient values. Become a highscool teacher.

>> No.1537703

>>1537700
Yes, really, in using cup size in your story, one is making a statement, a claim to status amongst the olympians - transcending the petty bounds of little minds and saying loudly, "I! I dare do this! I will write a story about cup sizes and none of you may gainsay me!" What heady visions must fill the head of he who breathes such rarefied air!

>> No.1537715

>>1537700
I'm just saying that generally cup-sizes are shorthand when you want to be detailed. Of course there are situations where their use is merited, but I believe those instances of merit are vastly outnumbered by the instances of convenience.

>>1537697
How is gay erotica? What's the style like, I mean.

>smiliss Seasons
I hope not, Captcha.

>> No.1537716

a petite blonde with GIANT RIBS

>> No.1537717

>>1537715
Penis size.

>> No.1537850

>>1537581
Unless you're writing pron or softcore, why describe her boobs at all?

>> No.1537997

>>1537850
>>1537581
I'm a fucktard, didn't notice the subject. Apologies.

>> No.1538009

Most women don't even understand bra sizes, why bother writing about them?

I'm a 36D, people estimate me a B.

You're writing fucking erotica anyway, numbers are not known to be sexy to normal people, excluding numbers concerning bank accounts.

>> No.1538010

>>1537716
lol

and OP, you shouldn't have shared this information - the best part of all amateur erotica is when they inevitably unwittingly give their heroine Camryn Manheim's bra size

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1538019

>>1537703

>> No.1538042

As a man who sometimes enjoys pretending to be a woman in chat rooms, I must know just enough about cup sizes and periods and kitchen-ry to bullshit my way around suspicious "women".

>> No.1538053

>>1537703
>Yes, really, in using cup size in your story, one is making a statement

No one suggested that. One merely suggested that OP should be allowed to do so. Got that concept?

>a claim to status amongst the olympians - transcending the petty bounds of little minds and saying loudly, "I! I dare do this! I will write a story about cup sizes and none of you may gainsay me!"

Again, no one suggested that OP use of bra sizes were any thing other than exercising his right as a writer to choose his topic as befits the style, or style as befitting the topic. Got that?

>What heady visions must fill the head of he who breathes such rarefied air!

yeah, I'm guessing high school teacher and/or failed writer.

>> No.1538061

Thanks for trying to remove one of the biggest early differentiators between people writing from experience, and people who woefully lack experience.

>> No.1538070
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1538070

>>1538042
>and kitchen-ry
None of the women I know (including myself) know shit about "kitchen-ry"
What kind of chatrooms do you frequent? Does Martha Stuart's website have chatrooms now?

>> No.1538076

>>1538053
Right. We're failed writers because we don't want to include details that are distracting and tacky in our prose.

Do you guys even READ decent literature? Have you ever seen any references to cup size in those works?

>> No.1538088

>>1538076
Well that's strange Miss Chalkdust, because I've just this very minute put down Tess of The D'urbevilles (you know, that ol' piece of trash) and one in which the notorious pornographer Thomas Hardy makes innumerable references to Tess' blooming young womanhood, the way her dress clings to her figure, her ample proportion (! I kid you not) and others. Now at first I thought Hardy was using this to explore the duality between Tess' childlike personality in a grown woman's frame. But now, thanks to you and the rest of the dried up old cracks who would prescribe the subject matter and constituent parts of 'decent' literature to all I now see that Hardy was merely 'getting his kicks'.
Thanks for this.

>> No.1538092

>>1538088
It was both.

>> No.1538096

>>1538076
bro, this is a thread about erotica

>> No.1538099

>>1538092
Be that as it may - it would have limited Hardy's novel to circumscribe it with the prurient, lazy, ill-informed opinions in this thread. But perhaps these people knew better all along and it is the writer's fault after all.
Now go mark some papers.

>> No.1538103

>>1538088
:\
You seem to be taking my comment a bit far there, sir. I didn't say you shouldn't describe jugs, I just said that there are probably better ways than just giving a specific bra cup size. Describing the way "her dress clings to her figure" is exactly what I was recommending.

>> No.1538120

>>1538103
So you and the rest of the old spinsters who seem to be on here tonight have kindly decided for the rest of us that Hardy's utilizing of Tess' figure to help him explore ONE OF THE MAJOR FUCKING IDEAS OF THE NOVEL is decent. While any suggestion that OP uses bra sizes in his work (of which you still have no fucking idea regarding form, context, style etc.) is tacky.
Actually, forget marking papers - go sort the coloured pens or something because people like you are lethal when it comes to books, pure fucking lethal.