![]() ![]() Early inquiries into the butt’s cultural history proved substantial, and Radke soon realized that it might take a book to untangle the derriere’s thorny symbolism. Many of her peers felt strongly about this body part, and so Radke grew curious about how it became so charged. ![]() “Some wished their butts were bigger, some had mothers who told them to cover their butts because they were too sexy, some loved their butts,” Radke, 39, told me. Part of her research entailed interviewing women who had very different experiences with - and relationships to - their butts. In 2019, the writer and WNYC RadioLab reporter published an essay in the Paris Review about the shame attached to having a large backside while she was in high school. Over the past few years, perhaps no one has spent more time thinking about butts than Heather Radke. ![]()
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