This judge has weighed in on the breast of the matter:

A fee of 25,500 euros ($32,000) is way too much for a woman to charge a man for fondling her bosom, a Finnish district court ruled.

The court jailed a couple in their twenties for more than a year for charging a 74-year-old who suffers from dementia a total of 25,500 euros to enjoy the woman's breasts on 10 occasions.

"Based on general life experience alone, it is indisputably clear that a 25,500 euro charge is disproportionate to the compensation in question," Judge Hasse Hakki, who heard the case, told Reuters Friday.

Indisputably.

I've never been to Finland. I don't know much of anything about this country. But it seems to be a pretty clear indication of Patriarchy when a government official in a trusted position having power over the citizenry -- a man -- passes official judgment on some sort of maximum value a woman's breasts can have even to other men.

If she wants to sell fondling rights, why can't she charge anything she wants? Is breast fondling considered an essential commodity in Finland, something like water, food, medicine...? Is breast fondling just too essential of a privilege of men to allow a woman to charge too much money to let a man fondle her own breasts?

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