Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Cosmos The In Lost

Home
Catholic
Culprit Behind Breasts Ballooning is Breaking Creation’s Back

Culprit Behind Breasts Ballooning is Breaking Creation’s Back

Last updated on: February 4, 2016 at 3:33 pm by Artur Rosman

Culprit Behind Breasts Ballooning is Breaking Creation’s Back 2016-02-04T15:33:34-07:00 Artur Rosman

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

The topic left me with few photo options (Source: Flirck; Author: PRONancy; Picture: bumper balloons; CC by 2.0)

I can’t even begin to explain the algorithms that got me to the DailyMail story on the scientific study of involutnary breast augmentation. I couldn’t resist the story, because it is of theological interest.

In his book on the doctrinal implications of human evolution Karl Rahner said the following about the relationship between theology and current events:

For we observe, of course, even today, that the real decisions of a man can occur very implicitly in a global commitment, in a fundamental decision regarding some conceptual content which to all appearance is very far removed from God and moral principles, whilst in the domain of what is expressly religious and moral, more or less sham fights are waged and such things only serve to hide the real decisions.

This, I will argue, is also the case with women’s breast sizes. Their tie to theology is buried deeper than the genre of Madonna lactans paintings, as superficially scandalous as they are to the Puritan eyes of late moderns.

Let’s dive into it with the “secular” facts first. You might have noticed that breasts are generally getting bigger, much bigger.

It’s OK to admit it, because you are correct:

But, according to Bravissimo’s estimates, at least 60 per cent of women wearing a C-cup should be wearing a D-cup — or larger. And it says the average British bra size is closer to a 34E than the 36C we are led to believe. But we don’t owe our expanding bustlines to modern fitting techniques alone. Back in the Fifties, the average woman wore a B-cup — a full size smaller than today’s larger size. It’s clear that our dimensions have shifted, but why?

My former professor contends that Big Phama is an all-powerful industry that’s playing games with our health.

According to the story the shift does have something to do with the unhealthy fatty modern diet and our sedentary lifestyle. But there’s something more going on here if you look long and hard enough:

Dr Glenville, author of Boost Your Fertility, says: ‘It makes sense to look at the ways in which our exposure to all types of oestrogen — the hormone our own bodies produce and oestrogenic chemicals we come into contact with — has changed over the years.’

‘Girls today reach puberty earlier than ever before, and are going on to have fewer children and breastfeeding for less time. As a result, we have far more periods than our ancestors would have had and we are exposed to more monthly surges of oestrogen, which stimulates ovulation.’

In addition, today’s young women were born to the first generation of women on the contraceptive Pill. Early versions of the Pill contained far higher dosages of synthetic oestrogen than they do today, and little is known about the long-term impact of this increased hormone exposure on future generations.

In other words, the sexual revolution has brought us inorganic sex. The Reagan revolution brought us deregulation. Put the two together and you get a Big Phrama experiment run on nearly all women in the Western world without their consent, without any oversight. Is it any wonder when some make the connection between feminisms and big business?

In contrast, the more natural regime of previous ages was much less of a load on the back and other joints:

Dr Glenville says: ‘Pregnancy and breastfeeding have a protective effect against breast cancer because they control the hormones which stimulate the growth of new cells in breasts.

‘But with more women today putting off pregnancy until later in life and having fewer children, they experience many more monthly cycles than previous generations did, and are exposed to more oestrogen.

‘I’m certain that if you looked at photographs of Victorian women, who on average had five or six children, you’d find them comparatively flat-chested.’

One thing is clear, both Eve AND Adam have changed after the pill:

Creation, is it disappearing?

But it’s not just women on the Pill or HRT whose oestrogen levels, and cup-size, might have increased as a result.

In 2002, research published by the Environment Agency showed that an ‘exquisitely potent’ form of oestrogen — which is believed to have entered the rivers through the urine of Pill and HRT-users — was responsible for changing the sex of half of all the male fish in British lowland rivers, and could be contaminating the water supply.

Now, it has been suggested that the influence of these xenoestrogens (literally ‘foreign oestrogens’) could be responsible for the rapid decline in male sperm count and fertility.

‘We can’t assume these pollutants have no effect on us,’ says Dr Glenville. ‘There are many questions still to be answered, but if xenoestrogens are potentially responsible for declining male fertility, they are potentially affecting women, too — and the proof could be in our bras.’

The piece mentions estrogen delivered in the milk we drink, but we also eat meat packed with a lifetime of estrogen and other hormones.

The final tally? Not only is human nature being destroyed, but our fertility is being stolen behind our backs, and the natural environment is changing as well.

Those of you inclined toward conspiracy theories might wonder whether the pervasiveness of estrogen in the water is somehow behind the recent massive proliferation of gender identities . . .

The theology of Creation, so central to Christianity, is disappearing right before our eyes as Catholics continue their sham theological fights in print and pixel. Look straight at the reality before you instead. The problems are bigger than we suspected. Look, don’t be bashful.

The hormones in our food are killing the theology of Creation. Taken from another angle: human creations are taking over Creation and we have no idea what the consequences will be. This is yet another example of how the degradation of the environment is tied to seemingly exclusively human matters. As a consequence being pro-life is much more expansive than most people think.

This disturbing news is all the more reason to heed the call of Laudato Si’ to resist the greed that is covertly using us a guinea pigs.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

After all that you might need a little comic relief, so here’s the “These things usually travel in pairs” episode from Woody Allen’s Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid to Ask:

After reading through all that you will definitely want to peruse Benedict XVI’s Theology of Bacon (& Creation), or Stand by Your Man: Are Some Feminism(s) in Capitalism’s Bondage?

Previous Post

February 3, 2016

Ask God to Shatter Your Heart

Next Post

February 6, 2016 Why Cam Newton Matters

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category #WhyRemainCatholic Abortion Advent Anti-Catholicism Arts Atheism Beauty Benedict XVI Bible Book Review Catholic Cinema Comedy Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Czesław Miłosz Dariusz Karłowicz Devil Easter Eastern Orthodoxy Economics Environment Family Famous Atheists Who Weren't Atheists Guest Post Hans Urs von Balthasar HHS Mandate History Imagination Interview Islam Jean-Luc Marion John Paul II Judaism Just War Lent Literature Little Sisters of the Poor Liturgy Martyrdom Music News Paganism Patristics Phenomenology Philosophy Pierre Hadot Poetry Poland Pop Culture Pope Francis Poverty Prayer Protestantism Rabelais Race Remi Brague Rene Girard Russia Sam Rocha Science & Religion SCOTUS Secularization Sexual Abuse Sexuality Silence Solidarity Stratford Caldecott Synod14 Terrorism Top 10 Uncategorized Walker Percy War Weakened Edition World War II World Youth Day WYD Krakow

Select a Month July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

Who said, "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone"?

Select your answer to see how you score.

David Jesus Isaiah Paul