Hey Facebook, Breastfeeding Isn't Obscene!

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It amazes me how far as a society we've got a stick in our collective butts.

I thought the whole Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" incident was completely overblown. I mean, Justin Timberlake ripped her brassiere off, and cameras showed for a split second her ornamented nipple but after fines, firings, endless stupid cable news chatter, all of which Janet never fully recovered from, I don't remember hearing of one child that needed therapy because he saw Ms. Jackson's boob.

But ubiquitous social networking website Facebook seems to feel that women who post pictures of themselves feeding their babies the natural way are porn pushers, and any shots of a nipple or areolae are banned from the site.

But Facebook has any number of photos of half-naked teenagers pretty much offering their goods to anyone who looks at their pages, so I don't see what their problem is with pictures of women simply keeping their children alive. ...

Look, it's not like these women are posting pictures of their boobs on everyone else's page. Those who don't want to see breast pics, don't have to go to those pages -- it's a little something called adult discretion. You can choose to use it, just like you can choose not to read my blog postings since you know I regularly write things that offend people.

The most interesting thing is that in practically every country I've traveled to, public breastfeeding is not even an issue. When a woman knows her kid is hungry, she just whips out a boob and feeds him. Women have been doing this for the 40,000 years that we've been in this stage of evolution. In fact, all mammals feed their young, so why is it dirty for human females to do it?

But we're in America, one of the world's most hypersexualized, hypersensitive societies and if someone who clams the Moral Mantle says women doing what their bodies are designed to do is indecent, then somehow we're supposed to go along with it.

To me, that's bullshit. Yes, I'm all for keeping a standard of decency, and we should adopt mores that we all follow, but it's straight up hypocritical for a media that constantly pushes images of sexual gratuity and horrific violence every single day to call something as natural as breastfeeding "obscene."

So I'm going to push the envelope even further. Those of you who who are offended, heads up, this not a video for squares. But it is two loving parents doing what people have been doing for time immemorial. It is the most beautiful thing we have in our existence and I can't see how anyone can find this obscene.


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