Are breasts only for men? They affect men.

I tend to be a bit of a news junkie. I love reading about what is going on locally and nationally, whether it is bad or good. So many people in this world have absolutely no idea what is going on int heir own home town, much less the world.

I love CNN and I ran across a story about the original KISS drummer surviving breast cancer. Breast cancer is something that we see women struggle with every day, but we hardly ever give it a thought that it might actually affect men as well.

Breasts have become a taboo subject in this country, mainly because of the media's extreme exposure and obsession with the human body. Rarely anymore do we see a magazine article with a woman in it that does not have a focus on some part of her body. Models are supposed to model clothing, yet the eye that we use through the camera hardly sees these objects that they are supposed to be displaying. There are many media outlets that allow people to view breasts as a whole, such as Playboy or Penthouse.

Many men probably do not know that they can also be stricken with the scary disease of breast cancer. Less than 1% of breast cancer cases affect men, but it can happen to anyone. Obviously, if a musician from one of the most memorable rock bands in history can be stricken with breast cancer, any normal "healthy" man could.

I think that the Susan B. Komen Foundation is a great service to provide information on breast cancer for women, but what about the men? I know that women are constantly fighting for equality to men, but what about medical equality for men? Don't men need information about important cancers as much as women do? Would women be given more information if we had prostates as well? I don't know.

Now, every time I put on a shirt, I wonder if men worry about how their "chest" looks in the shirt the same way that I do. I have no idea if I will ever be diagnosed with breast cancer, but I know that I have decades of information about women's breast cancer to help me through it. Will men ever feel that confident about a cancer? Probably not.

Kiss Drummer Story