Dear Lactnetters I agree with Jan. I had thought that breast may be the operative word and modesty (read a plot to hide breastfeeding) the driving force. However, then I remembered that North Americans use the word nipple instead of rubber teat for the rubber gizmo. Is using the nomenclature "nipple" for rubber gismos another plot to make the rubber teat more palatable? (excuse the pun). By the way a beautiful photo of a breastfeeding woman appeared well positioned (that is in newspaper reading terms) in the popular Melbourne Saturday Age 18/10/97 on page 3 righthand side of paper. The photo accompanied the results of combined West Australian and Latrobe University study demonstrating that when fathers were "for" breastfeeding, longer lengths of breastfeeding occurred. Go fathers. The article further suggested that promoters of breastfeeding should include fathers in any teaching about breastfeeding. [log in to unmask]