with her heaving bossom as captured by Delacroix.
Nowadays, female warriors in the field of sport, are finding that
large armaments are a detriment to their follow-through.
So, the scalpel was drawn.
[Simona Halep of Italy- before. Torpedoes at the ready]I'd show you the after, but it's too depressing.
This reminds mythology fans of the Amazons, the war-like women of the Hellespont:
"Hippocrates describes them as: "They have no right breasts...for while they are yet babies their mothers make red-hot a bronze instrument constructed for this very purpose and apply it to the right breast and cauterize it, so that its growth is arrested, and all its strength and bulk are diverted to the right shoulder and right arm." (See breast ironing, a current practice in which breast growth is deliberately stunted.)" (Wikipedia)
The reason?
"Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, "without breast", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their right breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction;[7] there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the right is frequently covered." (Wikipedia)
[An Amazon, by Franz von Stuck. Note the right protuberance]-Cos67 ¬(%^D>
