We're so caught up in fetishizing (mostly) female breasts in film, literature, art, and in the insane-things-comic-books-believe-womens-bodies-can-do.html">anatomy-defying breasts of comic book heroines, that we overlook the breast as a vital source of food and and as a body part vulnerable to cancer, including young women under forty. How often should we get that cancer-society-guidelines-for-the-early-detection-of-cancer.html">mammogram? To breastfeed - or not?

Lastly, how come men can go topless in America but women can't?

• Florence Williams - Author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History and The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, which will be published in February and her Audible podcast Breasts Unbound, debuts in December 
• Dr. Christine Rizk - Breast surgeon, director of the Comprehensive Women’s Health Center at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
• Lina Esco - Actress, producer, activist, director of the documentary, Free the Nipple and leader of the Free the Nipple movement.

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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show. 

This show originally aired on October 4, 2016. 

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