[ SECRET POST #2718 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2718 ⌋

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Comments

Re: What's Wrong With Attachment Parenting?

[diet_poison]

breastfeeding certainly isn't mandatory, and it's not possible for everyone, but it IS good for you. If your culture is such that you have an aversion to women breastfeeding for more than a few months or breastfeeding in public*, maybe that's an aspect of your culture that deserves critique.

*I have no idea if this is an issue in France, but in the US there's a lot of controversy over the right of a woman to breastfeed in public. A lot of people are really freaked out at the idea of a woman showing her breast in public because, like anon said, culture has taught us that breasts are sexual organs when in fact they're not, just secondary sex characteristics men usually find attractive. But a long, long history of men deciding how things are gonna be has warped our perception of breasts pretty severely. And there are many US women who want to be able to publicly feed their babies without being ogled or told off, and I think they absolutely deserve to do so.

TMI Warning

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culture has taught us that breasts are sexual organs when in fact they're not, just secondary sex characteristics men usually find attractive.

This may be absolutely true for some women, but for some of us it definitely isn't. My breasts aren't just an erogenous zone, they're my primary means of becoming aroused. I can't quite reach orgasm from nipple stimulation alone, but I can get damn close. I most definitely consider them to be sexual organs, or rather, organs with a very significant sexual function.

To complicate matters, however, when I was breast-feeding my daughter, the sensation was completely different and not the least bit sexually arousing. So it's fair to say (at least for me, and I have to assume I'm not unique out of roughly 3.5 billion women alive today,) that breasts are not sex organs during breastfeeding, but it's disingenuous to claim that they're only ever viewed as sex organs because boob-obsessed men say so, or that the two functions can't legitimately get mixed up in peoples' minds.

Re: TMI Warning

[diet_poison]

Er, well, erogenous zone =/= sex organ. Some people get really turned on by having their back, feet, or hair touched. Some people can get off just by thinking about it. You wouldn't call a brain a sex organ unless you were being really pedantic about neurological...ok that's a bad example because our brains aren't visible anyway. But anyway, you wouldn't tell people to cover up some other non-genital part of their body because it's stimulating to you or to them.

I get that there are reasons people think this. I get that it gets mixed up in peoples' minds. I still think we need to work to change that. Breasts aren't sex organs. Women don't deserve to be shamed into breastfeeding in dirty bathrooms or keeping their baby hungry just because people are offended by normal body parts.