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Our Fascination With Butts & What Makes A Good Apology (and A Bad One)

Something You Should Know

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What Is a Butt?

The butt as an anatomical thing is basically muscles and fat. It's a relatively simple part of our body but it has come to take on all these different cultural meanings. There's just a really long and complex history about all of the kind of cultural symbolism that we put onto the butt. The science around it feels very flimsy to me at least as a science reporter.

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