10 misconceptions about the female body

7. Breasts Functions As Armour

In the 14th century, Royal Physician Henri De Mondeville wrote in a letter to the French King explaining why women’s breasts are located in that certain place. He gave as many as three reasons –

1. So that they can viewed by men without difficulty.
2. So that the heart can be well shielded and kept warm.
3. He claimed that physicists have declared that a warm chest strengthens women abdomen.

Again, in 1840 an English doctor name Astley Cooper opined that big breast protects women for the lower strata of the society “to bear the very severe blows which they often received in their drunken pugilistic contests.” SEE ALSO:6 things you must stop doing if you really want to enjoy sex