Women breast feeding in public
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tom2019

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770 posts

219 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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If you (women) didn't make showing your breasts so taboo then no one would really care. You cover them up when men don't. Its your own fault that people get flustered when you breast feed in public.

Just don't treat your breasts as something that no one else should see i.e where nothing on top when swimming or just walking around on a hot day etc.

That is all.

Edited by tom2019 on Friday 5th March 17:23

dougc

8,241 posts

289 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Ahhhh, did you get caught looking?

Lost soul

8,712 posts

206 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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dougc said:
Ahhhh, did you get caught looking?
peeping Tom

tom2019

Original Poster:

770 posts

219 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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no i didnt lol , but i do look , if you don't want people to look don't do it in public !

LJTS

331 posts

207 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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tom2019 said:
no i didnt lol , but i do look , if you don't want people to look don't do it in public !
So if you had a partner???

Would you ban her from breast feeding in public?

Ganglandboss

8,502 posts

227 months

Mazda Baiter

37,069 posts

212 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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It's an interesting point. At what point did it become unacceptable for women to bare their chests, yet it was still acceptable for men to? Were breasts sexually objectified before they were covered up? Or were they just there, for the feeding of infants only. Could it be that womens psychology developed them into erogenous zones because all of a sudden they were hidden and therefore a taboo?

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Zod

35,295 posts

282 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Tom Tit!


whirligig

941 posts

219 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Eh? Are you for real? Most breast feeding women are extrememly discreet and in order to actually see any flesh you would need to be really staring in a most creepy way. Do you think all women with very young babies should not leave the house?

groucho

12,134 posts

270 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Mazda Baiter said:
It's an interesting point. At what point did it become unacceptable for women to bare their chests, yet it was still acceptable for men to? Were breasts sexually objectified before they were covered up? Or were they just there, for the feeding of infants only. Could it be that womens psychology developed them into erogenous zones because all of a sudden they were hidden and therefore a taboo?

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Lost soul

8,712 posts

206 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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whirligig said:
Eh? Are you for real? Most breast feeding women are extrememly discreet and in order to actually see any flesh you would need to be really staring in a most creepy way.
I think he did

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

285 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Mazda Baiter said:
It's an interesting point. At what point did it become unacceptable for women to bare their chests, yet it was still acceptable for men to? Were breasts sexually objectified before they were covered up? Or were they just there, for the feeding of infants only. Could it be that womens psychology developed them into erogenous zones because all of a sudden they were hidden and therefore a taboo?

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It was illegal for men to swim topless in New Jersey until the 1930's.

Jasandjules

72,034 posts

253 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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Lost soul said:
whirligig said:
Eh? Are you for real? Most breast feeding women are extrememly discreet and in order to actually see any flesh you would need to be really staring in a most creepy way.
I think he did
Well, it took a telephoto lense......

AS to the OP, no, I don't really see a problem with it, it is nature after all. I should imagine (but could be wrong) in most other European countries they wouldn't be too upset about it. It is just the British who are so reserved.

Scraggles

7,619 posts

248 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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recall taking a photo of a friend who was breast feeding, did not even realise it at the time, her picture and that of her kid sucking for all he can are on the net some place, she said words to the effect that she was not worried, it was a good picture and it was natural to do so smile

poo at Paul's

14,558 posts

199 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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tom2019 said:
If you (women) didn't make showing your breasts so taboo then no one would really care. You cover them up when men don't. Its your own fault that people get flustered when you breast feed in public.

Just don't treat your breasts as something that no one else should see i.e where nothing on top when swimming or just walking around on a hot day etc.

That is all.

Edited by tom2019 on Friday 5th March 17:23
Was your cock right out, or did you secrete your hand in your trousers?

bobt

1,323 posts

227 months

Friday 5th March 2010
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my 2 centimes, or dime or 2p.

En France men (desperate gentlemen, ordinary blokes, scumbages (french spelling), pikies, itinerants, et al) piss in public. Favourite place seems to be on an open strech of road. Autoroute, N road or wherever. It seems to be acceptable. However after 15 months of living here, I have never seen a a woman breast feeding in public. Plenty of women whose breasts I would like to see, but............Non. Ici nous faisons la discretion.

Just one more reason to add to my list wink




ShadownINja

79,521 posts

306 months

Saturday 6th March 2010
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tom2019 said:
If you (women) didn't make showing your breasts so taboo then no one would really care. You cover them up when men don't. Its your own fault that people get flustered when you breast feed in public.

Just don't treat your breasts as something that no one else should see i.e where nothing on top when swimming or just walking around on a hot day etc.

That is all.

Edited by tom2019 on Friday 5th March 17:23
I don't think that is at all the issue. The issue (from listening to radio chat programmes) is that some people complain that it is disgusting in restaurants. Personally, I don't care and neither do I find it arousing to see a baby feeding from the mother's breast.

andy_s

19,820 posts

283 months

Saturday 6th March 2010
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We Brits are still quite immature when it comes to things like this; I blame Sid James, Robin Askwith and Mary Whitehouse.

supersingle

3,205 posts

243 months

Saturday 6th March 2010
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eh eh... eh eh.... eh nudge nudge winkwink say no more...

Mazda Baiter

37,069 posts

212 months

Saturday 6th March 2010
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Here's a thought, the ancient greeks and romans had no problems with exposed bodies of males or females. This seems to be the time (in my extensive research) which this openness ended. Could Christianity in europe be part of the problem? Was there prudishness before this time?