> Well Fio, she *does* have a point, of sorts.
I know she does!  I agree that all the modern advances in technology,
fire, hunting, etc. have permitted us to wean at younger and younger
ages (and finally, at birth), BUT my answer to this is, just because
we're able to, does that make it "better"?  I don't believe it does,
personally.

> She is clearly still struggling with the idea that "breasts as sex objects"
> is a cultural phenomenon, not a 'natural' one.  My example of how powerful
> culture can be is to ask people to think about what they eat, and who
> defined for them what was edible and what not.  Surely it can be
> idiosyncratic -- I don't eat 'organs' (liver, kidneys, brain) but my father
> did.  Still, pretty much no one in the US eats termites or witchetty grubs,
> and most of us would get physically ill
good point, I'll bring that one up if it becomes a supper-table
discussion again.  ;-)

> people in other cultures consider them delicacies.  Of course, I wouldn't
> eat snails (escargot) or horse either, but many French people do.  Culture
> is very powerful.
True.  And horse is becomming quite popular here.  ;-)

Fio.

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