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>Dear Maureen,
>Thanks SO much for those two WONDERFUL long posts. I loved them! I too was
>feeling a little uncomfortable with the force of Kathy D.s statements, but
>confused as I love everything she writes. I wanted to believe that BF could
>be sensual/arousing, for the reasons you state.
Maureen and I do not disagree about the possibility of their being lovely,
sensual, even sexual feelings arising from breastfeeding. My point was that
this is *learned* behavior, something we learn to expect and associate with
sex as part of our culture's belief that breasts are
intrinsically/biologically sexual organs, when there is no evidence that
breasts *are* intrinsically/biologically sexual organs. Hey folks, my
breasts give me just as much pleasure during sex as anyone elses. I still
think the evidence overwhelmingly points to this being culturally learned,
not part of our intrinsic biology. That's all.
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Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D. email: [log in to unmask]
Anthropology Department phone: (409) 845-5256
Texas A&M University fax: (409) 845-4070
College Station, TX 77843-4352
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