What She Said: Selkie on Breasts

Selkie has some cogent thoughts on yesterday's nation-wide nurse-ins at Victoria's Secrets.  I'm feeling vaguely guilty that I didn't go feed Julian in a local Vicky's, so instead I will spread the word on a well-written and thoughtful piece on how silly the U.S. is about breasts. I hadn't thought of comparing breast augmentation to food-binding, but it makes sense!

Excerpts that I found particularly relevent:

We have it all backwards in this country.  Breasts are chiefly for sex, we think.  It's nice that human milk can do such good things for human babies, but why does it have to come from such an awkward place?  Isn't it a little unfortunate that babies have to...put their mouths...on their mothers'...breasts?

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Do not construe this post as a quixotic attempt to discourage American men from finding breasts appealing, or to argue against breast stimulation during sex (you did know that's a minority sexual behavior among the world's peoples, right?).  I have no complaints about the breast's secondary functions.  But let's give the primary function its due.


Go read the whole post -- it's good.