Saturday 3 July 2010

Does a lover really have first claim on breasts?

Telegraph (June 29, 2010) - Women's bodies have become so associated with sex that now a mothers' magazine has called breast-feeding 'creepy'.

No topic is liable to prompt a fist fight among mothers so rapidly as breast-feeding. Foot soldiers for the breast versus bottle debate line up like Roundheads against Cavaliers. Women who bottle-feed are often accused of lacking maternal instinct, while those who dare lactate beyond the three-year mark are viewed as hessian-clad feminists, only one short step away from running a lesbian commune in a yurt. [...]

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