Why I Don’t Rate The True Love Tester Bra

January 30, 2014

The news of a newly developed high tech bra that’s said to open only when the wearer is in love, began circulating online this week.  The Japanese lingerie brand, Ravijour, behind the True Love Tester Bra say the benefit lies with warding off unwanted sexual advances thus helping you engage only with the love of your life.  The ‘smart’ bra more akin to a chastity belt than a sexy garment, works by analysing your heart rate via bluetooth through an application that sends a message to release the bra’s closure – but only when the heart rate has increased sufficiently to trigger the apparent stage of love achieved.  Whilst the efficacy of this supposed innovation is debatable, what isn’t is my foot stepping right in and landing a bug in the baloney bra system.



Why do I not rate the supposed ‘true love tester’ bra?  I’ll first touch on the fairytale illusion of love at first sight – it doesn’t exist.  You feel a warmth, a flutter, a moment of overwhelming joy when you meet your loved ones – your boyfriend, your kids or your pet.  Love is an emotion that’s grown, nurtured and allows for the feeling of security, happiness and appreciation which opens the door to a deeper emotion of oneness, passion, unconditional love.  Love within the capacity of friendship or that shared between parent and child, is obviously different to a lifelong partner but it’s all equally a measure on the same scale.  Lust at first sight, however, is the driving force behind the glance of a hot potential pursuit.  Lust does not mean you are in love and the feeling in your pants isn’t as reliable as your heart.  Or brain.

So, if your heart’s racing – due to lust – and the clever little app’s telling your bra it’s “yay okay!”, it means… you’re in love?

Your heart’s racing, your pulse is pumping throughout your body, you reeeally need to get those clothes off you (and off your prey) because this is ‘the one’.  Really?  Since when was love purely sexual?

The definition of love or lust aside, what concerns me most is the apparent need for such an item of clothing.  Since when did a woman need an external, scientific device to help her decide whether she’s in love or not?  Are our womanly hormones not capable of figuring out our emotions?  Is it really that much of an emotive task to know if we love someone?  I hate to say it so bluntly, but if you don’t know where your feelings lie and you need such help then I can assure you, you most probably are not in love.

But the biggest issue I have with this bra?  A woman can decide for herself if she wants to take her clothes off or not!  I would not wear this bra in a million years because I do what I want, and that includes taking off my bra if I really feel the need to.  You don’t need to be in love to take your bra off, whether the person in front of you is the love of your life or not.  As long as you know what you’re doing, having fun, enjoying, living and making your own choices for your life, you really don’t need some smart bra to tell you so.

If you’re seriously looking for love please don’t put your trust in a gizmo.  Your heart racing does not signify your status in love.  A bra popping open is most certainly not the game changer and ultimate prize of love.  

I would hate to be wearing the smart bra whilst rushing round the supermarket, or during a hard vacuuming session, or whilst I nervously sit with my heart pumping waiting for a job interview…

P.S  Those with high blood pressure need not apply.

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What are your thoughts on the True Love Tester bra?  Do you think love needs the helping hand from science?  Think this is a joke not to be taken seriously or do you hope to see the bra is production?


4 Comments

  1. Upsidedown J

    January 30, 2014 at 9:03 am

    I think it’s really stupid. I agree with you completely. Love is not valued by the pace of your heartbeat, jeez… If it was I’d be in love with the stairs in our home.

  2. Nate Bowles

    January 30, 2014 at 7:19 pm

    Lol…isn’t this taking technology a but far? And yea…a bra that opens when it thinks the wearer wants it to could lead to awkwardness. Just a bit..

  3. Panty Buns

    January 31, 2014 at 3:09 am

    Though I may disagree with your opinion that true love can’t manifest itself overwhelmingly within minutes of meeting someone, I do agree that the premise that only love increases the heart rate is pretty idiotic. Since one’s heart-rate has little relationship to love being felt but, rather, is effected greatly by exertion or by fear, it might pop off while running or when an attacker approaches. It might take some time but you could probably make some fabulous blooper videos reviewing the True Love Tester Bra. An interesting experiment might be to lock the True Love Tester Bra on a man. I’ll leave the scenarios to your imagination. I understand why you wouldn’t want to review the True Love Tester Bra, but some of the reviews I’m imagining could be hilarious.

  4. Rylan Gibvens

    May 1, 2015 at 3:08 am

    Haha! Thanks for the laugh!
    One wonders if it comes off at the end of a long day only if the wearer is excited enough.

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