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Mag's Breastfeeding Photo Is Too Titillating for Readers

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Tags: BabyTalk, breastfeeding, breasts, photo, readers

A parenting magazine is at the center of a breastfeeding controversy after featuring a nursing mother on the cover of its August issue.

BabyTalk, a magazine catering to new mothers, received hundreds of letters in response to the photo, with many readers calling it offensive and disgusting.

One mother who didn't like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.

"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast - it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."


Another woman, who’s in favor of breastfeeding, said she also wanted to protect her family from seeing unwanted breastage.

"I'm totally supportive of it - I just don't like the flashing," she said. "I don't want my son or husband to accidentally see a breast they didn't want to see."


Because, of course, they always tell her which breasts they do want to see.
The photo was meant to call attention to the current debate over breastfeeding in public. A recent poll found that 57 percent of Americans oppose public breastfeeding, while a new generation of mothers - "lactivists" - are advocating for a woman's right to whip 'em out whenever she needs to.

BabyTalk executive editor Lisa Moran said it's the first time a major U.S. parenting magazine has shown a woman's breast.


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IntlPro

IntlPro

Bloomington, IN
March 2005

AUG 04, 2006 07:37 PM

Next they'll be reinstating that law making sure women stay at least 100 yeards outside city limits when they're on the rag. If we don't, God will be raining down fire on all major metropolitan areas any day now.


IT'S IN THE BIBLE, PEOPLE!!!

JeffX

JeffX

I'm lost
June 2006

AUG 04, 2006 07:47 PM

"I'm totally supportive of it - I just don't like the flashing," she said. "I don't want my son or husband to accidentally see a breast they didn't want to see."

I somehow doubt that.

It's not like the lady just had the whole breast out for the whole world to see. That and it's a woman feeding her child. What is sexual about that?

cyberomega

cyberomega

United Kingdom
November 2005

AUG 04, 2006 07:48 PM

"I'm totally supportive of it - I just don't like the flashing," she said. "I don't want my son or husband to accidentally see a breast they didn't want to see."

News flash, they do want to see it.

andtherobots

andtherobots

San Francisco, CA
August 2004

AUG 04, 2006 07:48 PM

that's some awesome side boob.

binarydivision

binarydivision

Atlanta, GA
May 2003

AUG 04, 2006 08:00 PM

looks like child porn to me. sick!

Kodizzie

Kodizzie

Spartanburg, SC
May 2006

AUG 04, 2006 08:08 PM

I think that pic is adorable. I for have breastfeed my son adn it an amazing thing!! I see this pic and think of my own son & I bonding over lunch!! People need to ge a life & stop bitching about stupid shit. Those victoria secret mag. (I love them too) are like a billion times more sexual than this!!!!

Twwly

Twwly

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

AUG 04, 2006 08:26 PM

s5 said:
Mothers who consider a photo of breastfeeding to be "sexual" should be spending a bit more time looking inward and re-examining their own moral values than criticizing a magazine. Obviously, I'm not a woman so I don't know very much about these things, but you'd think that someone who has actually breastfed would recognize that there's nothing sexual about it.



I would never call breastfeeding a sexual act.

But birth, and breastfeeding can have everything to do with sexuality...even in terms of it being an "ecstatic" experience for some women. I've been reading endless breastfeeding and birthing books and there seem to be a fair number of women who experience totally normal feelings of pure ecstacy during said experiences.

That said, the women who think a breast is always sexual, or consider it flashing (wtf?!) are pretty loony in my opinion.

Leperunclean

LeperUnclean

Staunton, VA
August 2005

AUG 04, 2006 08:53 PM

j0z3r said:

hellix said:
I think the real issue is that that child is under 18. How shameful wink



No no....The real issue is that any decent magazine shows both tits! What's up with this one tit, no nipple crap?



Do you realize how offensive that is to nippleless, monobreasted women?

damonone

damonone

San Francisco, CA
March 2004

AUG 04, 2006 09:19 PM

that is soooooo hot. I need to be protected.


surreal

Psmith

Psmith

Fountain Valley, CA
OLD SKOOL

AUG 04, 2006 09:22 PM

That photo just turned me into a homosexual. Another victory for the liberal conspiracy to promote deviant preversion.

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

AUG 04, 2006 09:41 PM

I am willing to bet that those same people bitching about that cover are the same ladies that sit in the checkout @the supermarket reading the tabloids plastered with images of a drunken Britney Spears falling out of her top, and they're none the wiser.

Tardy tards, they is.

-TM

thefreak

thefreak

NEWSWIRE

Gardner, MA

AUG 04, 2006 09:44 PM

IntlPro said:

IT'S IN THE BIBLE, PEOPLE!!!



I hate to correct you, but the proper line is:

It's in REVELATIONS, people!



And YES, I'm a nerd, what of it? tongue biggrin

-TM

cop_n_blow

cop_n_blow

USA
July 2004

AUG 04, 2006 09:47 PM

i like how this is controversial but the sports illustrated swimsuit issue is okay.

Spica

Spica

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

AUG 04, 2006 10:02 PM

Breastfeeding = incest.
Women who breastfeed should be in jail. Rotting.
And wearing bras. In the shower.

desidia

desidia

Reunion
September 2002

AUG 04, 2006 10:18 PM

*sigh*

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