Virginia wrote: ''I tried to make this comment to the (male) speaker at a
conference in South Africa in 1998, but he swung the question round and made it
into the opposite, i.e. that I was supporting his contention that (all?) women
have low sex drives after giving birth, rather than seriously questioning it.  I
began to wonder if it is a cultural thing, that society is not comfortable with
the concept of breastfeeding mothers being sexy.''

This makes me wonder if this can have a relation with the cultural tabu (sp?) on
sex within  xxx months past birthing in lots of societies? Do you know Kathy D?


Gonneke van Veldhuizen, IBCLC

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