100 women go bare Breasted for Bare Reality -

This year alone has seen a HEAP of heated debates over women's breasts, with Free the Nipple and No More Page 3 making huge headlines. So it's great timing that Laura Dodsworth has released her book, Bare Reality, which displays 100 real women's breasts in their natural, un-airbrushed state.

Talking to Female First about her decision to pull together the book, she said: "We see images of breasts everywhere in the media and yet images of 'real' breasts, and actual breasts themselves, are almost never seen. Breasts are taboo hidden away beneath clothes. Although that's not true in all cultures, there are plenty of societies and countries where breasts are not seen as inherently sexual and toplessness is normal."

Dodsworth continued: "I have always been fascinated by the dichotomy between women's personal lives and how they are depicted in the media; between how we feel about breasts privately and how they are presented for public consumption."

For this reason, she went about interviewing these women on their breasts, talking to them about what this hugely-debated body part means to them. You can see some snippets from the book in an article with the Huffington Post, while Dodsworth reveals a story each week on Bare Reality's own website.

The first excerpt can already tell us that this will be an inspiring book, as an anonymous subject reveals the moving journey she's been on with breast cancer. Discussing what it felt like losing a breast to the disease, her story concludes with her realising that she's "one of the lucky ones".