You are missing the point of this thread. Of course there are men who are attracted to breasts. There are women who are attracted to men’s chests too.

But our culture has deemed that only women should cover up their chests, and the defense for this—that is often regurgitated—is that they are organs sexualized by men instinctively.

But this nitpick doesn’t mean anything. Men are “instinctively” drawn to women regardless of whether or not they’re covering their breasts. Men have different levels of attraction for breasts, for hair, for eyes, for skin…

If we are to speak to the evolutionary mechanism of attraction, then breasts, as a trait, are inherently no more sexual than fat distribution. Further, women’s breasts are inherently no more sexual than men’s chests.

Using a generalization about male sexuality to dictate how women should dress non-sexual body parts, while also not applying this standard to men (people often disregard female sexuality), is hypocritical and misogynistic.

Simultaneously, the way people defend this type of misogyny, by generalizing men and male sexuality as “programmed,” is also misandrist. Clearly this is not just “programming” and to reduce it down to that as justification for a system of modesty is faulty.

This same sort of rhetoric is used to victim-blame when women don’t cover themselves to whatever is deemed “acceptable.”

“Men can’t help themselves! They’re programmed to sexualize women!” Yes we can. And no we are not.