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Warmskin
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 Posted - 06/08/2009 : 12:26:14 AM
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I can understand that juveniles would get aroused about breast-feeding, but mature men and women? Are we really understanding and mature if we don't think we can handle breast-feeding?
My thought here is that we may as well close down every naturist resort, if the sight of non-excretion activity is happening near other people. Why is the breast so horrible? Do we need to go back to the Victorian era of not being allowed to show our ankles? How about those sexy piano legs the Queen thought were too racy for public consumption?
Who decreed that breast-feeding was reprehensible? I am really curious about that, thus my energy about this topic.
Values change constantly, and I hope the public can pull its socks up and grasp the concept of being human.
I don't mean to offend, neither am I a juvenile who gets his kicks in this discussion. It's the philosophical nature of me.
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.” -John Adams
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Taxman
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Posted - 06/08/2009 : 3:39:44 PM
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Originally posted by runninaroundnaked
warmskin says jesus might not be offended;so for that matter...would the Pope be?
Good question. After all this Pope (at least in public) has yet to come down very hard on those under his control who have taken advantage of the young children.
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wardt
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Posted - 09/20/2009 : 02:03:16 AM
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I had heard about public breast feeding of course but had never seen it until this summer. I was visiting my cousin and a bunch of our family was together watching a DVD in the living room. My cousin decided to breastfeed her baby. She didn't feel it necessary to leave the room. She just pulled down her top enough for the baby to get at her breast and started feeding her baby. The rest of the family other than myself are not nudists but did not pay any attention to my cousin feeding her baby. Her baby wanted to eat and she wanted to watch the DVD and it was her own house so she saw no reason to feed her baby there in the living room. Eventualy she did cover up the baby nursing.
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allnaturalwife
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Posted - 09/21/2009 : 2:14:06 PM
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From a woman's point of view: Many of you might be surprised by my views as a woman a lifelong nudist with three children, and someone who is usually liberal in these matters. As far as breastfeeding in public, I find it to be quite "tacky" and inapropriate. Of all the nudist moms i see at our club, all of them put a small blanket over the baby when breastfeeding. And more often then not they go off to the side of the main area..under a tree or something. Furthermore this is an intimate moment between mother and baby..not just " the baby having lunch" as if its no different than my husband sitting next to me by the pool eating a cheeseburger.
Do I think that a mother breastfeeding in public is "an abomination"? Wouldn't say that, but just not too classy in my opinion. Also, in my opinion there is NO comparison that can be made between breastfeeding and ANYTHING else...so I do not buy the argument that "its no different than......." Its different than everything.
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old hippie
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Posted - 09/23/2009 : 2:06:03 PM
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Originally posted by allnaturalwife
From a woman's point of view: Many of you might be surprised by my views as a woman a lifelong nudist with three children, and someone who is usually liberal in these matters. As far as breastfeeding in public, I find it to be quite "tacky" and inapropriate. Of all the nudist moms i see at our club, all of them put a small blanket over the baby when breastfeeding. And more often then not they go off to the side of the main area..under a tree or something. Furthermore this is an intimate moment between mother and baby..not just " the baby having lunch" as if its no different than my husband sitting next to me by the pool eating a cheeseburger.
Do I think that a mother breastfeeding in public is "an abomination"? Wouldn't say that, but just not too classy in my opinion. Also, in my opinion there is NO comparison that can be made between breastfeeding and ANYTHING else...so I do not buy the argument that "its no different than......." Its different than everything.
Jenifer, I stand corrected.
The "having lunch" was my phrase, and it seems to have been a bit off target. My intent was to indicate that there is nothing disgusting or abnormal about the act of nursing. But my experience with this event is entirely external. In the 50's and 60's, when my mother was raising my sibs and me, we were all nursed until we could handle pureed food (Gerber's and such). My mother, who is as staid and respectable as you could imagine, was quite comfortable feeding the baby in a public place; but as you indicate, she would sit off to the side, and usually toss a little blanket over the nursing child. While there was no question what was going on, it was handled discreetly. I saw this as completely normal beavior for the twenty years that my parents were raising young children.
What I was clearly not aware of was the special intimacy that you describe. Naturally enough, my mom never discussed this with her young son (me) - and none of my now-grown sisters has said much about it either. Thank you for the enlightenment.
The practice seems a bit less in favor today, but growing back in acceptance. I do think that members of the public need not show disdain when a mother chooses to nurse the child, especially when handled as you describe. Surely, with the recognition of the health benefit, it is a practice which should be acceptable.
Dum vivimus, vivamus!
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Warmskin
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Posted - 09/23/2009 : 8:48:22 PM
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Interesting that it is people who are the only life form who fear nudity and breastfeeding. Too much demand for exclusiveness makes us less natural. I, for one, am fine with being in the same room with a woman who is breastfeeding. If she is comfortable with it, why should I feel uncomfortable? After all, the baby is not pooping in his diapers, he/she is getting nourishment, the same as we would get at the dinner table. If eating is that awful, everyone should eat in the bathroom, alone.
Just my little take.
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Thomas Jefferson
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nude charles
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 4:47:00 PM
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I was in Barcelona for two weeks (Sep 2009), and women were breastfeeding on busy public streets. No baby covering. My feeling was that they were proud of it.
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