Breastfeeding, Is It Ok To Do In Public?

[Anonymous]

Women nowadays are getting pretty riled up about this natural thing. Breastfeeding. A lot of people just want to breast feed their infants in public when their baby needs to be fed. Wherever they are if their baby needs it, they shamelessly oblige and feed them no matter where they are. Of course feeding infants can be a constant thing that a woman has to do for her baby multiple times a day. But because it is natural and neccesary for an infant (if the mother is choosing to breastfeed) does that automatically mean it's OK to do in public? It's really a matter of opinion.

My take on it is that it's ok to do in public, as long as your boobs are out of sight. This is a personal bonding experience between mother and child. It may be natural to do, and by all means it's a mothers choice to do it or not. But I think it's just common courtesy to be more private with it. It's your body, your personal temple, a sacred thing. Wouldn't you rather not have your breasts be on display for the whole world to see? It just negative attention most of the time. There are plenty of other things that are natural for a human to do. But does that mean you can just do these things out in public for everyone to see?

Farting is a perfectly natural emission of gas from your anus. When you're out in public do you lean over and fart as loud as your butt will allow in public? Some people don't even fart in front of their spouses, boyfriend, girlfriend, or lover. Most people excuse themselves to the bathroom to pass gas. Or they silently try to release it. It's a perfectly natural thing. But everyone around you doesn't want to smell your natural gas... so you go somewhere else if you can, and fart there instead.

Having sex is a perfectly natural thing. Excluding public sex fetishes, it's a thing most people prefer to do in private. Do you really wanna see people fucking in a public setting? In a public shopping center or at place where you eat food? It's a natural thing, but it's also a private thing. It's illegal to have sex in public in a lot of places. It's just public decency not to do it in public.

Breastfeeding is a perfectly natural thing. Unfortunately it is a distraction to the public if the mother doesn't cover herself up. Society has evolved to be like this. And women shouldn't whip out their titty and let their baby just suck away in a public setting. Even if it's natural that doesn't automatically make it ok to do all out in the open. We aren't at that point in society to be fine with it yet. There are a lot of things that are obscene and rude to me as well like advertisements, unneccesary nudity in movies, music videos, etc... A lot of media is offensive and disgusting. So I'm sure a woman breastfeeding probably feels they aren't the worst thing on display right now. I'm sure a woman at a mall next to a giant advertisement of a victoria secret model in her bra and panties gives her all the reason to bare boob it and feed her child. But women shouldn't let this whole thing dominio effect. Your body is a sacred thing, like I said earlier. I know there are plenty of things in ads, music videos, television, and movies that makes a lot of people get to the point where they're used to it. And really the world shouldn't be like that. But just because some model or celebrity does it, gives someone no reason to copy them and be just as obscene and rude.

I'm not saying women should stop breastfeeding their children. That choice is not up to anyone but the mother herself. I think it's just respectful to yourself, your child, and the public to be more private about it. It is absolutely possible to achieve breastfeeding in public without being in bad taste or rude to everyone around you. Just think of your child growing up to hear about how mom always breast feed them in public without shame or covering them up. Sure some mothers may be just fine with doing it and letting everyone see. But it's just common courtesy to be respectful about it. It's a touchy subject I know, and plenty of people believe you should be able to do it uncovered and wherever you want. But my take on it, is that if you're going to do it, just please be in good taste.

[BeeNee]

Your whole premise is that the mother is being disrespectful towards you and some public out there by... feeding her child... uncovered. What if she forgets her cover? What if the baby doesn't want to be covered up? What if she intends to bond with her child and feed them, the way god or mother nature intended? I worked in a children's museum for years with all sorts of breast feeding scenarios. Even in this museum some people (always men) would complain, and I would just shrug and say the baby is hungry. There was nothing they could do about it and I certainly wasn't going to stop a mother from feeding her child or tell her to cover up because it is you, the person who complains who are trying to make it sexual. A nipple is the tap to the milk. Deal with it. As women we need to support women in doing what is natural to do. It's not just about that one person, there are two people involved, and one so young they have no clue what all is happening around them, they just want food... now. So basically you are the one who should, pun intended, suck it up, and get over yourselves and let women feed their babies however they can manage. Mothers have it hard enough already trying to manage a young infant.

[CoolSky01]

I think her point is that a mother who whips her tit out in public without consideration shames herself, her baby and husband, your honor is theirs if you fuck up they fuck up. fuck society, think a little more rational do want your kid to grow up as the kid who's moms titts were seen by every single douche on the block? are you ready to show your bare tit to strangers? ( its a trick question if you answer yes you are considered slutty by default) , if you truly believe showing your boobs to every single person around is a good idea i can assure you will be viewed as easy by most men.

[BeeNee]

@CoolSky01 You come talk to me when you give birth to a child who is screaming like crazy because its hungry and they need to be fed. Oh wait...

There should never be any shame associated with feedings ones child. If you have a problem with mother's breastfeeding then you walk away and cry and complain in a corner. This is why, thanks be, to the hard work of mothers around this country and their advocates, mother's rights to breastfeed in public are protected, cover or no cover.

[CoolSky01]

you didn't read any word i wrote you keep throwing giving birth and hard work around , lady dafuq does pulling your titties out has to do with hard work?

if i see your boobs iam going to STARE AND WILL NOT LET LEAVE !! I hope your family love shame

[BeeNee]

@CoolSky01 my point is a valid one. If you've never had to breastfeed a screaming crying child, then you have no clue. The mother is not trying to take her breast out to give you some jollies. She's concentrating on her child's needs as any good mother should do. There is absolutely NOTHING shameful about that which is what you clearly don't understand.

[jacquesvol]

@CoolSky01 I don't know how many boobs you have seen in your life but will one more make a REAL difference? Will it hurt you? If so, how?
When the baby is eating it's head covers he nipple and boob. Thus you won't stare at more than accepted cleavage. Do you stare at cleavages too?

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[CoolSky01]

Are you dumb people or something boobs dont annoy me in fact they are a turn on, and if you can't see a problem with stranger guys getting turned on because your wife pull her boob out in public then you have some serious problems...

[BeeNee]

@CoolSky01 No, it's actually you with the problem. She's not "pulling out her boobs and whipping them out in the open. You are essentially covered by your own clothing except the nipple which is then covered by a baby. What you are suggesting is that you are so incredibly and ridiculously horny that you would stop and just stare endlessly at a woman breastfeeding. This is your personal issue that you need to deal with or get over. Thankfully there are many more evolved men who don't view breastfeeding as some sort of sexual buffet for you to ogle at, but as something a woman has to do in order to feed her child and attend to her child's needs. You clearly will never be one to understand that because you are so focused on your own issues with it, so basically either get over it and yourself, or grow up. Again, we have laws that protect a woman's right to feed her child which is sad that we even need to have a law to do so, but it's there and women will continue to exercise their rights.

[CoolSky01]

evolved men? you are living in denial, dont listen to what most fucktards say on here young or old a man sees a boob he's gonna look and iam not leaving you alone iam gonna stare at you until you finish breasfeeding and most guys would even start jacking off unless you're ugly, you clearly have no self respect nor understand the concept of shame and dont really care about your family or even yourself, you want to "Excercise" your rights even if they're not really yours and they will shame you therefore you are slutty as well, you are the absolutly worst kind of women, those who are too dumb to understand the consequences behind their actions and only after they fuck up and get humiliated big time that they realise maybe their "Rights" shouldn't have been practiced like that , for the most part take you titties out and breasfeed your kid in the nearest park, lets see how much fun it will be. iam done.

[BeeNee]

@CoolSky01 I'm sorry you're so frustrated. Imagine that crying hungry baby having to wait because you can't handle yourself. Thankfully they don't have to. I've said it, and I guess it bears repeating. There is no shame in feeding ones baby who is hungry. A mother does that the best way she knows how, and that is all there is to it.

[WhatAreYouReading]

I agree!! I hate that it is treated like woman's fault that men are pervy... dude, get your head out of the gutter! I don't get while their issues become our problem! If guys can't go out in public with woman feeding their babies then maybe he should stay home where he won't be so easily distracted. it shouldn't be everyone else's job to tip toe around you and your sensitivities. Your rights should extend as far as your person. Don't like what someone else is doing, don't look and don't do it yourself... problem solved.

[gobsmacked3]

The most natural act of all

To even question it like this is just wrong

[BaileyisDarcy]

If we could de-sexualise breasts (which would be so easy to do if people would quit being closed-minded) then breastfeeding in public would be no big deal. I love seeing women breastfeeding in public, be that my obsession with babies, or being ecstatic that the woman is sticking to her guns on the issue, I love seeing it happen. It shouldn't be up to the general public where, when and how a mother feeds her baby.

I have been in a pub having dinner with my grandparents, across the room there seemed to be a family get together and one lady with a baby who looked to be a few weeks old, popped out her breast and let her baby feed. Nobody at the table objected, nobody in the pub objected, my Poppy commented later that it's nice seeing people accepting breastfeeding as a fact of life, and I totally agree with him.
It shouldn't be something we frown on.

I was thirteen I think when I was an ambulance cadet. We would put up a tent at the local show so the people there could receive basic first aid quickly if they needed and if there were an accident on the grounds, like a girl falling off her horse like what happened one year, they wouldn't have to wait for an ambulance to come from the hospital.
There was one woman who asked to use our tent so she could feed her baby without prying eyes. This was my first time ever seeing a woman breast feed. I have two younger siblings but they were both bottle fed, so I'd never seen this process done before.
And yes, I looked, I might have stared a little. But I did my best to be polite about it.

The point is, if breastfeeding in public were mainstream and less stigmatised, nobody would look.

We don't look anymore when a person of a different colour to our own walks past because it's become mainstream to not be racist. (as it should be)

Why do people not realise that the way to fix problems like these is to make it mainstream? There is nothing wrong with breastfeeding in public. I have no idea why that opinion has changed between my Poppys generation and mine.

[LuvYouAll]

Before I started to read articles in English on internet I didn't even know that it isn't mainstream to breastfeed your baby and I was even more surprised when I heard that many of this who breastfeed do it under some kinds of covers. In where I live people seem to breastfeed (especially during the summer) whenever and wherever (yes churches too) they want without covering anything, and nobody even looks at their way.
It's weird how alienated many cultures have become of completely natural things like breastfeeding or nudity (in here it's completely normal to be naked in sauna or got to sauna with your family and relatives and go skinny-dipping afterwards.

[BaileyisDarcy]

@LuvYouAll It is weird and it's very stupid that we do this. I watched this documentary once where a camera crew were talking to some women from a tribe that's almost entirely cut off from society (So no electricity, no running water, no anything else that we take for granted) one woman from the crew was chatting to these tribal women and mentioned in passing how breasts are essentially taboo here and how obsessed people seem to be with them.
The tribal women started laughing, belly laughing, and exclaiming that western men are just like babies yearning for their milk!

Which is quite the apt description I think.

[WhiteSteve]

It's not the breastfeeding, it's just that a baby that age is young enough to cry uncontrollably, and I think it's very inconsiderate to bring that potential situation in public. You had a baby, you chose to do it, so just hang around your house for a couple years until you can shut that thing up on command. I have zero tolerance for child noise. If I were a parent, I wouldn't dare bring a baby to a restaurant, on a plane, to any kind of event. Nothing makes me want to die like the sound of a crying baby. If I ever get married, the wedding invite will be instructing everyone to leave their babies and toddlers at home, maybe even say it's an 18+ event. I'm shocked at how everytime I go to one, some idiot brings their little kid and it screams through the fucking ceremony. Like how did you think that was a good idea? Get a sitter, or send a card and a gift and say "hey, best of luck to you guys, congrats, sorry we couldn't make it, we have a young, uncontrollable kid." So simple. Like if I ever had a baby, it would come with an acknowledgment that I am now just removing myself from the social scene until a simple "SHHHH" can keep them quiet in an instant. But everyone seems to forget their "special" baby is just a dime-a-dozen to the rest of us, and act like it's EVERYONE ELSE who needs to adapt, even though it's them causing the shakeup to an otherwise normal situation. I'm sure some will say "ohhhh, but what is a parent supposed to do?" I don't fuckin' know, bro, not my problem to figure out, you're the one who wanted the baby. I don't know the answer but I know it's on you to provide the solution. We're just living here, you're creating the variable in the situation. I'm not trying to be a dick, but the rest of the world shouldn't just be automatically expected to shut the fuck up and accept someone else's crying children. Again, I'm really not trying to be an asshole here, I don't blame the kids, we were all children once, we all cried. The difference is that my parents had some consideration for others and limited my public exposure until I could be controlled. Whoever causes the change in a situation is responsible for correcting it. And I get that there are occasions when there's no other option and you have to take them somewhere, I'm just saying use your head and have some respect for those of us who don't think your baby is the most precious thing in the world.

Actually, just had an idea: "with" and "without" kids sections on planes! Genius😎

[SomeGuy37]

I've seen a few women, in mostly public places, nursing, and most cover their nursing with a shawl or baby blanket to maintain their own feeling of modesty.
Around Christmas time, I was at a local mall with her, shopping, and she noticed a woman on a bench in a mostly secluded side hall, not in the main path. She wasn't covered, and didn't seem to care.
My girlfriend has three little baby nieces and sees her sister-in-law nursing them all the time, at home. She immediately went over to the rather young mother, and sat next to her!! WTF am I supposed to do?
She's outgoing, and starts talking to the mother, and telling her about nieces, and so on and on. I'm standing there, wondering what to do, so I just kind of stand post, like a guard, when people walk by and see, and most just walk along.
Then Jabba the Hutt, btch comes by and has an issue!! She's hideous, and like 500 pounds on one of those scooter things.
She starts saying that it is wrong, and saying a lot of horrible things. I tell her to just keep moving, and she doesn't need to look and if she moves on she doesn't have to see it!!
What I am confused about is why such a normal, natural thing is such a big deal!! Even young children know the difference in genders, and some have seen their mother nursing a baby sister/brother. They have seen breasts, women have breasts, and just about every adult, normal guy has seen breasts!! What is the BIG DEAL with public nursing?
I can't afford to eat at high-level restaurants, but even if I was at a dive diner, and there was a woman at the table next to me and my girlfriend, and she was nursing a child, without a cover, it wouldn't offend me!! Really? Who is offended by this? Cute little babies, nursing, like the fundamentals of human life. How is that not something wonderful and amazing!!
My only fear is that my girlfriend likes to watch, and talk, and she wants a child of our own!!
I think women should be allowed to breast feed in public, when the child needs it, and if you don't like it, don't watch!! The other side of that, is that if ladies choose to do that, they have to know that some, like my girlfriend, will want to watch and talk, and want their own!!

[Wizbit]

Let me ask you something:
When you hang out with your friends at the mall, do you all take along a blanket to cover yourselves while you eat? Ever eaten anything (innuendo aside) with a blanket over your head? No? Then why should the poor baby?

I needed to breast feed when I was shopping. I asked if there was somewhere I could go and they directed me to the disabled toilet! Ever fancied eating your lunch in a public restroom? No? Why should the baby?

I'm not whipping off my top and letting my tits hang out. I'm FEEDING A BABY. The baby has the nipple in its mouth so the "offensive bit" isn't even visible. Seriously, girls in low cut tops show more boobs than women breastfeeding. Making a big deal about them not covering up just draws more attention to it.

Do people insist the dog or cat goes into a private room to feed their pups/kittens? No, because that's a natural act. It's only unnatural for human mothers to publicly care for their child.

When no woman can wear a top cut lower than the collar bone I'll agree it's offensive. When all food outlets have a "no blanket, no service" policy so EVERYONE has to eat under cover I'll happily smother my baby under a hot and dark cloth to enjoy its meal. Until then if you don't want to see women breastfeeding in public then try this very simple trick to avoid it: LOOK AWAY.

[Esplorare]

Personally, I do not think breastfeeding is okay to do in many public situations. My main concern being the fact that there are many pedophiles and UNREGISTERED sex offenders who (as disgusting as it is) will legitimately get a hard on, go home later and jerk off to that mother's infant. They may even record it as their own sick, perverted, amateur porn. It doesn't matter if women want to passionately scream "BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT BREASTS ARE FOR!" It is going to happen. -_- It has been happening for centuries and it's the mental illness and insanity behind it is not going to cease because women don't want their breasts to be sexualized.

I also think it's rude if you are pulling your entire bare breast out in front of children and their parents want to teach them modesty. It doesn't really matter if you personally feel that children should learn early on that breasts are not sexual because that is not your child and to enforce your own ideals onto them in public is inappropriate and overstepping boundaries.

[ksoma]

i have no issue with breastfeeding in public, as long as the woman does 1 of 2 things:
1) use a feeding blanket to keep things covered. baby has to feed? feed the baby! a light blanket to keep things covered for a few minutes keeps everything very PG, and no one has any cause to complain about what she is doing.

or

2) just whip out the tit and feed the kid. she can do this if she wants, but only, ONLY, if she realizes that men, and a number of women, see breasts as sexual, and if we see a boob just hanging out there, we are going to stare. if she doesn't want it seen, she should cover up!

I think there is nothing wrong with breastfeeding. in fact, i think too few women breastfeed anymore, and that it is very important, for bonding, and for the mother and the baby's health! if things are covered, there is no problem, and if the cover slips and people see what they shouldn't, they should apologize to the mother. but if she doesn't cover up, she must accept that breasts ARE sexual, and that we can not simply turn off our minds and pretend that breasts are not sexual to us in any way while in her presence. We are most respectful of her, and she of us, if a feeding blanket is used.

[mistixs]

There's a difference between looking (which is acceptable) and staring.
There are men out there with foot fetishes who see feet as sexual, but it still wouldn't be acceptable for them to stare at women's feet. Same case here.
Staring at someone is unacceptable in any circumstance. Most people should've learned that by age 5 but it seems that a lot of males haven't, for whatever reason. Well they need to learn.

[ksoma]

@mistixs I agree. Staring is rude. And people should avoid it. But when a guy sees a breast, he isn't thinking, at least for a few moments. He stops, he looks, and ends up staring, slack jawed. Not because he intended to be rude, but because the situation of the exposed breast (in a mall, cafe, walking down the street, whatever) is the kind of situation were he doesn't expect that, and so his mind goes numb for a few moments.
he could walk past the same exact thing on a nude beach and never look or notice it, because that is a situation in which boobs are expected to happen, so they are not distracting and seeming so out of context their presence makes you freeze up.

[mistixs]

Well I mean I guess it depends on how long he's staring. I wouldn't be offended by some people staring out of surprise because they don't see it often. That's natural. But a person needs to learn self-control at some point.

[ksoma]

@mistixs on that we wholeheartedly and unconditionally agree, I think.
Many people, in many types of situations, lose self control. No one will ever achieve master-of-self, but people should still strive for it.
Too many people have no self control. And just look at some of the questions and answers, here, and you see a small, but consistent, amount of people who seem to think that self control is just something that holds you back, and if you want something, you should just heedlessly do it.

[jacquesvol]

@mistixs Would foot fetishes be a good reason to prohibit wearing sandals? ;-)

[ksoma]

@jacquesvol I support almost any policy that limits the joy in the lives of people with hard core foot fetishes. those people are creepy. lol.

[mistixs]

@jacquesvol No, it's always a person's own responsibility to control their sexual attraction. There are people out there attracted to literally anything. Should women wear burqas?
Oh wait. There's literally such things as veil fetishists and burqa porn.
The only way to avoid arousing men would be for women (and men - gay men exist) to completely hide themselves from men altogether. This obviously isn't practical so it's up to the person with the fetish to keep himself in check.

[jacquesvol]

@mistixs And to stop people with a hair fetish, should we make women wear a veil?

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[ksoma]

@jacquesvol you didn't actually read what she said, did you?
she pointed out that anything can be obsessed, sexualized, and fetishized, and so laws to ban or cover up is pointless, and that the obligation should be on people to have some self control.
she is not advocating a burka, veil, or anything else.

[jacquesvol]

ksoma why are conservative people so afraid of being confronted with a nipple?

[mistixs]

Honestly I feel like dudes with foot fetishes may be God's blessing to women.
Dudes with foot fetishes will literally dish out dozens of dollars for photos of a woman's feet - my friend got offered 200 dollars for one. I mentioned it on Tumblr when I heard about it, and instantly I got a message from a foot fetish blog who said I was pretty cute and was willing to pay for a photo of my feet. Unfortunately I have disgusting toenails otherwise I would've taken up the opportunity for easy $$$.
Of course there are even more dudes who would pay for pictures of your tits etc but sending those types of pictures is dangerous for obvious reasons. Your life could be potentially ruined if those got out.
Furthermore, many guys with foot fetishes will literally pay to give women foot massages!

[mistixs]

@jacquesvol I think you and I are agreeing.

[Anonymous]

They make clothes for breastfeeding that doesn't end with the child being covered up. And when done correctly, all you see is a woman holding a baby with the face next to the boob but little to no skin whatsoever. It's legal for women to have cleavage or side boob showing. It all depends on the society that you live in and what you have become desensitized too. In some countries topless men and women is the norm. You can open up a magazine and see plenty of topless women as if it was nothing. Go to a conservative country and seeing just a little skin is seen as offensive. I think both are fine as long as the large majority of people that live in those respective societies agree with the social norms. There may come a time when a 1st world country allows full nudity anywhere. People now will say that is going too far, but if you grow up in a society like that, it becomes the norm and are desensitized to it. So, if a woman wants to breastfeed in public in the area that I live, then doing it is fine, as long as she's completely topless. If I travel to an area where topless women are the norm... or at least legal, then I wouldn't care since that would be what is normal and accepted in that area.

[AleDeEurope]

Yes, let's compare the shitty smell of a fart, or the spreading of juices during public sex, with an innocent act like breastfeeding your kid.
You can't compare breastfeeding with farting or having sex.

There's people that don't know how to eat and look kinda disgusting when they eat, but when it's a small baby feeding from his mom's boob, now hell breaks loose.
What's so wrong about seeing a boob anyways? Does it kill your brain cells to see a boob? Is it the female anatomy what you don't like? Do you not look at your own boobs?

Let's mind our own business and let a mom feed her kid in peace. She's just sitting on a bench bothering no one, and if that bothers anyone, they can simply not look, why would they even stare? That's rude...

[IceEverest]

^^^this

[Anonymous]

My wife breast fed all three of our kids for 6 months to a year each, in public, and didn't wrap their heads in a blanket in midwinter. She received exactly zero complaints. She was wearing nursing tanks etc so it's not like she stripped, and the child's head is blocking the only part of her exposed. If you made a desperate attempt to start over her shoulder while the baby was latching, i suppose you might have glimpsed nipple. While feeding, nothing.

Our kids did not like being held with a blanket over their head. Kids, once they learn to focus, are most able to focus on objects the distance away... that their mother's face is while they're feeding. They want to see her. Do you like having a blanket over your head while eating? Probably not. So they eat a bit and fuss and stop.

[jacquesvol]

M. H. O. !

[RJGraveyTrain]

If you have to feed your baby, you have to feed your baby. Not all mothers have the luxury of being at home all day every day, a lot of them HAVE to be in public and have a right to be. I think that it shouldn't be frowned upon because it IS natural and you HAVE to feed your baby or you'll have people bitching about a screaming baby. I believe as long as you have a shawl or something to cover yourself in a restaurant or very populated setting, it's fine.

Besides... boobies. Don't be a damn boobie hater.

[redeyemindtricks]

"Wouldn't you rather not have your breasts be on display for the whole world to see?"

Nope. I really just totally don't give the slightest fraction of a flying sliver of a shit, actually. But thanks for asking (:

I mean, I love my country, but, this is one area where my fellow Americans really just need to take a fuckin' chill pill. They're breasts, y'all. NOT A BIG DEAL. This is something that basically every other first-world country seems to have grasped perfectly well by now.

[lumos]

My opinion is that mothers shouldn't be shamed for it. But they should try to be as discreet as possible, in my opinion. Especially if you're at a restaurant or something. I don't want to see stuff like that when I'm trying to enjoy a meal. Just like I wouldn't want to see a man taking his shirt off at a restaurant, I wouldn't want to see a woman with her boobs flying about. But it's all about context, like at the beach I wouldn't give a flying fuck even if she's completely topless.
Thankfully all of the mothers I've seen breastfeeding in public have been discreet about it and try to cover up as much boob as possible, so I don't really consider this an issue at all.

[godfatherfan]

If they have a blanket drapped over themselves, or find a private place, I don't see an issue. The problem is the militant women that whip out a tit in public, then complain that men stare at her tits. WTF? Sorry, the whole "they aren't a sex organ " is the worst most pathetic argument in history. I have a ton of magazines, video, and history of men that will seriously disagree with that statement.
by the way.. I went 25 years with my ex wife and never farted or belched in front of her on purpose. so I can identify.

[Cookies_AndMilk]

I don't get that either. Breasts are erogenous zones and are in fact accessory organs to the female reproductive system. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise is fooling themselves.

[mistixs]

@Cookies_AndMilk Necks are also erogenous zones. And yes, they're secondary sex characteristics, but so are beards.

Anyway I could show you a ton of magazines, videos, and history of men who would disagree that feet aren't sexual. Yet that wouldn't make it acceptable for men to stare at women's feet in public. Same case here.
Staring at someone is unacceptable in any circumstance. Most people should've learned that by age 5 but it seems that a lot of males haven't, for whatever reason. Well they need to learn.

[Cookies_AndMilk]

@mistixs Just because there are men who don't find them sexual doesn't mean they aren't. Breasts are secondary organs to the reproductive system. Beards are a characteristic not a secondary organ. Regardless, I don't think boobs should be out in the open for everyone to see. I don't care if I have a child or not, my body is still my body and out of respect for myself I would keep myself covered. Yes, I will breastfeed my child but I will do so in private, cover myself with a blanket, or use formula until I can get home. There's other options than whipping out boob and nipple and have it hanging there. There's nothing wrong with the act of breastfeeding but there is something wrong with public nudity.

[mistixs]

@Cookies_AndMilk breasts are secondary sex CHARACTERISTICS. https://en. m. wikipedia. org/wiki/Secondary_sex_characteristic
They're not sexual organs. Sexual organs are organs which are directly involved in the reproductive process, which breasts are not.

[godfatherfan]

@mistixs that is a ridiculous argument. You can't just arbitrarily redefine sex organs. People might have fetishes, but that is very different. if I walk around in public with my penis out, where people can do as they please, I would expect people to stare. people don't stare at things that people can't help (burn victims, birth defects, etc).
when you voluntarily put your genitals out in public, they have every right to stare and wonder what part of your upbringing failed.

[Cookies_AndMilk]

@mistixs Regardless breasts play a role in reproduction, breasts are sexual. Why is it that women can be aroused by the fondling of breasts and men can get aroused at the sight of them. Breasts still play a role in reproduction a beard does not. Breasts are still sexual. The act of breastfeeding might not be sexual, but breasts in fact are. Why are you even arguing with me? A person's titties do not need to be out in the open for everyone to see.

[mistixs]

@Cookies_AndMilk Women get aroused by breast fondling because breasts are erogenous zones; but so is the neck. A woman can also get aroused by neck stimulation.
Men get aroused by the sight of breasts because they're associated with sex in this society. In nudist societies men aren't instantly aroused by breasts.
Breastfeeding is NOT sexual.

[mistixs]

Penises are genitals. Breasts are not genitals.

K let's look at an anatomy textbook, shall we?

BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/BOOKS pg 268-279, learn more about what differentiates sex organs & secondary sex characteristics. Description of boobs being classified as secondary sex characteristics on pg 279.

[mistixs]

(From the textbook I just linked)

–PRIMARY sex organs: organs that contain gametes. I. e. testicles and ovaries.

–SECONDARY sex organs: uterus, or organs that aid in transport of eggs/sperm to uterus. i. e. fallopian tubes, PENIS, vagina, etc.

–SECONDARY sex CHARACTERISTICS: characteristics that differentiate males and females, but don’t have a DIRECT part in reproduction.
Examples include BREASTS in females, enlarged muscles in men, adam’s apples, facial hair, etc. Learn more about the classification of boobs as secondary sex CHARACTERISTICS on p279.

So we see that breasts fall not under the same category as penises, but the same category as facial hair.
In order to justify the forcible concealment of breasts, we'd have to do the same with beards.

[mistixs]

Damn it. The link to the textbook didn't work.

Look up the book "Anatomy and Physiology: Understanding the Human Body" and when you get to the book on Google Books, search "sex organ vs secondary sex characteristics"

[godfatherfan]

@mistixs What some idiot put in a textbook has no bearing on what humans have defined them as over centuries. Tits, pussy, and penis, testicles are all in the same category. It is unclear what your issue is. You seem to be one of those fanatics that want to cause issues and try and think your right and ALL the rest of society is wrong.

[mistixs]

you're literally saying thay scientific textbooks and scientists and doctors are wrong LMAOOOO

there are many things that the general public believes that is wrong.

But who cares about science right? HAHAHHAHAHAHH OMG

and no, breasts have not been defined as sex organs by humans over centuries. In many cultures women are allowed to walk around topless and no one cares.

[mistixs]

You might as well have said "the world is flat. Societies thought the earth was flat for centuries, so that must mean it is true. Fuck science and scientists and what scientists say."

[godfatherfan]

@mistixs and AGAIN... your comparing apples to houses. You really should just stop. They can prove things like the world being flat. Who says breast are not sexual organs? and why is that even your arguement? The definition has absolutely nothing to do with this topic. why are you rambling on about it? regardless of what a small section of doctors define them as (as most will say they are sexual organs), the fact is they are accepted as such. SO they don't need to be on display. and if they they are, the woman has no right to get all pissed off that people are staring at her. She is the one that wipped her tits out in public. If a woman wants to walk around topless, laws are starting to change to allow that. However, don't tell me that they don't know that people, esp men, are going to stare. That is the only reason they are walking around with her tits bobling around.. she is an attention whore.

[godfatherfan]

obv that is supposed to be the world not being flat.

[mistixs]

How can you prove breasts aren't sex organs? Using science, and the definition of sex organs.

And most doctors do not say that breasts are sex organs. That's only said by people who are uneducated, such as yourself, who don't know what sex organs actually are.

[mistixs]

I wouldn't say most people think breasts are sex organs either. You're just the one who is uneducated.
You know what would be a good place to see what is commonly accepted by society? Wikipedia. Lets take a look at the wiki for "breasts."
Ctrl F "sex organs". The phrase is nowhere on the page.
"Secondary sex characteristics," however, is. Because that's what breasts are. (So are beards.)

Again, "sex organ" is a SCIENTIFIC TERM and you're the one misusing the term because you're uneducated.

[godfatherfan]

@mistixs What part of the statement "this post isn't about if they are sex organs or not"... don't you seem to get. I hate that I even let you bring me into the conversation. So if you want to think of them as Not sex organs... awesome... go at it. your in the minority.
otherwise...
nothing else changes about my posts. I am done with you little girl... move along...

[Red_Arrow]

You spent most of your opinion arguing with @mistixs that whether they are a sex organ is not the point of this post. Yet that is exactly what your opinion argued in the first place. And the answer is that they are not a sex organ. They do not play a part in reproduction, so they are not sex organs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_organ

Your conceptions on things are not the final say. And if you are going to state that accepted definitions are wrong, and that the doctors mostly agree with you when they do not even come close, and say that scientists are wrong, you are really only showing how wrong you are.

[GirlGuy123]

I came to know about this take when @Littlett25 commented on it and it appeared on my feed.
Like her I think women should be able to breastfeed in public.
There is no problem with it. The society needs to change their mindset if they get distracted by watching some lady breastfeed in public.
It is not porn or something awkward that they feel distracted by it.
Also women do not whip out their breasts in public while breastfeeding. They do it silently and cover their breasts.
Also no one teases someone that his/her mother breastfed her in public.
It is a natural act.
I have never seen anyone getting distracted and staring at a lady breastfeeding her child in public in Australia.
USA is such a developed country. No one feels awkward when a lady breastfeeds her child in public.

[IsabellaCarlos]

I agree with u

[GirlGuy123]

@IsabellaCarlos Thanks

[snowangle]

So what do you suggest a mother does if her baby hates being covered, or gets too hot under the cover? Should she sit in the bathroom and feed her baby for 30+ minutes (with or without the company of whoever she's out with, which may include her other children)? Or should she ignore her baby's hunger and let him scream until they get home? Just curious.

I honestly don't see how people can be offended by seeing breastfeeding. It's not a fart and it's not even close to banging. It's beautiful and necessary (well, recommended, at least) and it's totally legal to do in public. If someone is uncomfortable looking at it, then that's honestly their problem for having the wrong idea of what breasts are for.

[BlueEyedHipsta]

Yes it's perfectly okay to do it in public so long as you have a blanket or something to cover yourself up so your nip isn't exposed to the world. Whenever I have a baby I would love to breast feed but the way breast feeding mothers are treated in public makes me think otherwise. I saw a very disgusting video of a lady breast feeding on a public train, covered up and this guy is telling her to stop or move somewhere else because he finds it gross. People around jumped in and told him if he doesn't like it then he should move. This went on for a long time. It was ridiculous.

[JuicyBrain]

Sex is natural. I should be allowed to have sex in the middle of the place with everybody watching. Taking a shit is also a natural act. Therefore, I should be allowed to bend down and leave a steamy one right in the middle of the mall. After all, it's natural. I really have no problem with ladies breastfeeding. I don't mind seeing a boob. I just think that people who are uncomfortable with it do have a point. If we are to let women breastfeed because it's natural, then the other things I mentioned should be too. Is it too much to ask of those women to go to a breastfeeding area?

[JuicyBrain]

Another thing. If women can breastfeed in public, then why not let them go around topless? What's the difference between seeing one breast or two? Personally, I think breastfeeding should be allowed in public, but if we are to be coherent, public nudity should be allowed too.

[chevyreaper2169]

Wow I bet you don't have a lot of friends do you.

[JuicyBrain]

@chevyreaper2169 And what prompts you to make this gratuitous assumption? What did I say that was so outrageous?

[chevyreaper2169]

Well you compared breastfeeding to defecating in a middle of a street, or mall, and sex in public is for the movies that are x rated.

[JuicyBrain]

@chevyreaper2169 You didn't even stop for a minute to think. All you are saying is that they are different. I know they are different. But why is it that one is acceptable and the other isn't? The argument that everybody seems to go to when talking about breastfeeding is that it's natural. I say taking a shit and having sex is also natural but we don't do it in public. So why is it ok to breastfeed in public then? Why can't a girl walk around topless unless there is a kid attached to the nipple? The difference is completely arbitrary and makes no sense. That's coming from a guy who has no problem with women breastfeeding in public.

[chevyreaper2169]

Show me a picture of a woman breastfeeding in public with her breast out and a baby nursing and I'll say I'm worng , every time my wife did it she coverd up with a blanket, and any time I seen woman in public breastfeeding there covered up. And if a woman doesn't cove up while doing that well that's another issue all together.

[JuicyBrain]

@chevyreaper2169 You are evading the question. I said already I don't care about women breastfeeding in public so my own perception is irrelevant. I am playing the devil's advocate here. People who are against breastfeeding in public won't be convinced by that argument. It is nothing more than YOUR own private observation. That does not constitutes an argument.

[Brokenheartedx]

These ones who go and do mass protests with their babies to prove a point are quite sad individuals and ovb work shy... my sister would go to work but express her milk in a private place and store it to take home to her kid... these women have nowt else to do but post pictures of themselves breastfeeding... why can't they express milk into a bottle why sit on a bench in the middle of a busy shopping centre? Why not sit in a cafe with your back to people in the corner? Why as public as you can get? What do they want balloons and merit badges?

[bluenose1872]

No it's not. I know snotty women. They'd pick the busiest place in the middle of everybody and start doing it then scowl around to see who's looking. I'm a woman how dare you treat me as if I'm something special shit. I can't be arsed with that shit. Before you know it they'll want their own partitioned off area in ever try public place and bla bla bla. You get sick cows travelling for an hour and making their baby starve just so they could do it someplace public and show what a heroine they are to the females of the race. I can't be going with any more up their own arse, self important bitches like that. They give me the creeps

[Anonymous]

I dobt see why a woman shouldn't be allowed even if she has no blanket, they have no problem with it in Africa, south America or asia its only in the west that perversely sexualise breasts and after all in the modern world we have no problem with the sexual lyrics, dance moves and scantly clad women gyrating on MTV such as Rihanna and Beyonce and being sold to mostly kids but when a woman breastfeeds in public we all lose our shit. I remember one anti breastfeeding in public on GAG came up with a mad facist rant about it, im sure she will turn up.