Janice Reynolds asks for info on BF in public.  I was just struck by a bolt
of lightning, influenced by 'The Thing' essay when I read her request, here
goes:

Breastfeeding in public is like eating in public.  Eating in our society is
not normally an intimate, private, or titillating activity.  Hesitation to
breastfeed publicly comes from a cultural skewing of the role of the breast.
The breast has come in the dominant modern US culture, among others, to be
associated with the usually private, intimate activities of sexual
relationships.

By this reasoning, bottle feeding should be no more acceptable than
breastfeeding in public.  If breastfeeding is sexual, and I am not saying it
is, then bottlefeeding is like sex play with a dildo, and hardly a suitable
public activity for most of us.  If seeing a feeding bottle doesn't tweak
our antennae for sexual stimuli, then why should breastfeeding do so either?

This may not be the most strategic line of reasoning for your purposes,
Janice, but it might come in handy for some of you others, someday.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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