Sat, 29 Jul 2006

Lactivists: Where is it OK to breastfeed?

This is a classic cultural Catch-22: breasts are perceived as sexual because that's the only context in which breasts are displayed. Why aren't they displayed in other contexts? Because they're seen as sexual! Apparently even by breastfeeding women!

Although I daresay that it would take a pretty serious pervert to get aroused by this magazine cover. For a good survey of our collective hangups on mammary glands, see The Book of the Breast by Robert Anton Wilson.

"I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine," one person wrote. "I immediately turned the magazine face down," wrote another. "Gross," said a third.

(link) [CNN.com]

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On 7/28/2006 10:25:29
Bjorngrímnir wrote

Visit Europe Sometime

On 7/28/2006 12:37:03
SB wrote

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