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I'm apparently being interviewed about Queer by Choice issues on The Derek & Romaine Show on SiriusOutQ radio this Friday, June 20th, during their 9:00-10:00 Eastern Time hour. You can listen to it online if you feel like it. I just hope my voice isn't as shaky as it was in the last radio interview I gave.

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wyntergyrl has traumatized me just now by encouraging me to search google for studies claiming that bras cause breast cancer. Please, someone assure me absolutely positively that these studies are discredited. I don't have enough time on my lunch break to do anything but frighten myself.

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I am attempting to arrange for Mikie to visit me in August, but I have to obtain the necessary vacation time from work first, and the person who's normally in charge of granting vacation requests is never at work anymore (she recently had a baby, and only comes to work twice a month or so these days) and the slowness of the process in her absence is severely provoking my impatience.

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I'm having a high paranoia day. I do not have them often, but when I do have them they are severe. :p

Don't worry about the deoderant (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_3_1x_Antiperspirant_Use_Does_Not_Increase_Risk_Of_Breast_Cancer.asp)

I don't see anything either way on the bra issue on the American Cancer Society website, though. I have no choice about wearing a bra, so if it increases risk, I'll have to have an increased risk. The amount of pain I get from not wearing a bra is too silly to contemplate chosing to have.

I found something from the American Cancer Society yesterday that said there is insufficient evidence to conclude that bra wearing contributes to breast cancer. There was no study to indicate it necessarily didn't contribute either though; it just said the studies supporting such a link were insufficient to draw conclusions. The deodorant thing you found is more reassuring.

As for the pain of not wearing a bra, I know what you mean - but the anti-bra websites claim that the reason it's painful is that wearing a bra has caused the ligaments holding up your breasts to atrophy from lack of weight-bearing.

I refused to wear bras until my mother made me start in 9th grade - for the preceding two years I had breasts but just wore camisoles. I know that back in middle school it never seemed painful to walk around without a bra all the time, whereas now it does, and my breasts are not significantly larger than in 8th grade. This seems to give some credence to the atrophied ligaments idea.

Interesting. Atrophied ligaments does sound like it would make sense.

On the other hand, I never had any breast pain until I was . . . ummmmm . . . 21, I think. I started taking "the pill," and my breasts grew at an alarming rate and they were unbearably painful. Ever since then, I can't go without a bra without pain. Even at night.

But then again, maybe it does all still go back to the ligaments. My ligaments weren't conditioned to hold up the new monster breasts, so there was all that pain. And with wearing the bras (and even increasing the amount of time in them) they were never given a chance to strengthen.

Interesting.

But can we do anything to strengthen these ligaments?

They get strengthened by being used, just like muscles. You have to put up with the pain first, though.

NOooooOOOooOooOoooooooOOOOooooo.

No more pain.

**throws a hissy fit**

*nods*

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