School girls boob show
"I had bigger boobs than the girls in school....
Author's senior yearbook photo (1991)
Source: Liz Swan
When news of a yearbook "cleavage controversy" at a Florida high school broke last month, I was intrigued—but I can’t say I was surprised.
In fact, I'd just remarked to my husband a few days earlier that I’d noticed many of the senior portraits proudly displayed on front lawns in my neighborhood resembled adult magazine centerfolds more than school pictures. I’m admittedly out of touch—we don’t have a daughter and it’s been a long time since I posed for my high school yearbook photo.
It struck me as odd though that these school pictures of girls in their teens—taken during the fall semester of their senior year, so when they're 17, technically still children—were, in my view, trying to look sexy.
This study evaluated the short- and longer-term impact of a 50 min breast education intervention on adolescent girls' (11 to 14 years) breast knowledge.
With or without cleavage showing, I found the poses and facial expressions to be unnerving.
The "cleavage controversy" at Bartram Trail High School in Florida was that when seniors received their yearbooks in the spring, 80 students noticed their pictures had been photoshopped, primarily to cover up cleavage.
The yearbook ed