I hate to break it to those of you who think it’s icky but THAT’S WHAT TITTIES ARE FOR!!! The fact that some find them sexually stimulating is besides the fucking point. We are mammals. We are supposed to use our mammary glands to nurish our children. Those of you who find breastfeeding icky or consider it pornographic need to check yourselves.
Maybe I don’t get the problem some men have with public breastfeeding because I’m gay. I don’t know.
I do know that I can make the mental distinction between an infant sucking his meal and an adult man (or woman) gnawing on his/her female partners breasts in a restaurant.
One is childcare. One is sex. Give ya ten to one odds on which is which. And the childcare doesn’t bother me in the least, though the sexual situation would make me cringe (not a problem with sex in public, just straight sex in public…icky!).
Richardson, Texas is a blight upon mankind, and needs to be sanitized (read: obliterated with nuclear radiation) along with all the other DFW megaplex suburbs, like Plano, Grapevine, Mesquite, Arlington, North Richland Hills, and Irving.
I have four little brothers. I have also baby-sat more little children than I can shake a large stick at. As such, I feel that I have seen quite a lot of fairly normal little-boy behavior. Playing with one’s genitals is this type of behavior. Children will, once reaching a certain age, become immensely fascinated with their own body. They will find their private parts an incredibly amusing and funny toy. They will touch them. They will fiddle with them. Sometimes they will touch them and fiddle with them at times when the circumstances do not fully call for tonker-tweaking. I distinctly recall my frustrated parents going through one and a half rolls of film to get one, just one, picture of Pre-Pubescent Dr. Demento (then aged three) where his hand wasn’t down the front of his pants. (And even in that one it was definitely on its way there.)
Also, in the Dallas Observer article, it doesn’t state that the parents “have sex” on film. The only reference I could find to any adults in bed was this:
Ah, a truly enlightened viewpoint.
For anyone interested, a history of the City of Irving can be found here. It dates back to the 1850’s whereas Dallas dates back to the 1840’s. Anyone who has even passing familiarity with the area knows that fledgling cities of that era could not possibly have covered the amount of ground between the oldest sections of Dallas and the oldest sections of Irving(Approx 13 miles). Irving was an independent city which was subsumed by the “metroplex”. To call it a “suburb” of Dallas is an insult to over 150 years of history. Many of the “suburbs” in the D/FW metroplex have similar stories.
Enjoy,
Steven
Miller said:
Breasts don’t hurt people. Sign-posts hurt people.
Captain Amazing said:
The idea of taking nourishment in a bathroom is what is repugnant to me. But if the sight of a woman nursing her child in a restaurant grosses you out and you cannot tear your eyes away, take your food into the bathroom and eat it.
This is absolutely ridiculous, to harass breasfeeding mothers, and arrest them for lewd conduct. Why it is alright to have all the breasts anybody could want hanging out on magazine cover, on bikini girl posters, and all over the television, is beyond me.
It also seems ridiculous to ask nursing moms to feed their children in public bathrooms, as even the cleanest bathroom has many ways to spread infections.
Well, they might you know. You know if there is too much movement.
I recall reading a cheerfully bloody-minded crime novel some time ago, name of Skin Deep that involved (best as my hazy memory recalls) the intersection of the criminal underground and plastic surgeons. At one point, one plastic surgeon–who had covered up various botched procedures–was worried about beng sued by the husband of a lady he’d performed a boob job on. He was suing because he’d put out his eye on it.
(It also featured a villain who replaced his severed hand with a high-powered weed trimmer. I need to find that book again.)
OMG I’m married to a porn star, and I’m a child pornographer. Just as well I have a digital or I’d have been arrested by now. Of course it’s not just me and my wife. No, there’s all our friends who are part of the child porn ring. We sit around in circles (covens, maybe) and drink stimulant substances (well, OK, coffee) and pore over hot porn. Well, kiddie photos anyway.
What’s the difference between a doberman and a child protection officer?
stagey voice I don’t know, Princhester. What is the difference between a doberman and a child protection officer?
Hey! HEY!!! I’m sitting in an office building in Irving right now, pretending to work! Don’t nuke me, please! And I just bought a house in Arlington! (Well, I haven’t closed the deal yet, but anyway …) And my sister-in-law lives in North Richland Hills!
Um …
OK, you can nuke North Richland Hills, but leave the rest of them alone. 
You have some chance of getting your children back from a doberman.
Boom tish!
[sub]Thanks Matt[/sub]
Breasts don’t kill people. Breast-feeding kills people.
Ironic, isn’t it? 
Breat feeding in public is gross, but it gets worse. The other night I was in a restaurant, and I saw this couple masticating! In front of their children! And they were encouraging their children to masticate as well!
ClapClapClapClapClap! Well said, Zoe! I was lucky in that nobody ever took me to task for nursing my kids in public, but if they ever had, your line would’ve come in handy.
For my first son, I just threw a recieving blanket over him if he needed to eat while we were away from home. One thing that really bugged me about this was that I felt like I was wearing a billboard that said “Hey! There’s a nursing baby under there!” I also hated to cover him up if it was warm outside. A kid should not have to swelter in order to get his/her milk.
For my second son, I made myself some clothes from patterns I ordered from Elizabeth Lee. Lots of maternity stores sell such items as well. Chances are, squeamish people everywhere have been within a few feet of a mom feeding her child breastmilk in public,
and never even knew it.
I think it’s sad that moms who breastfeed have to take so much flak here in America. Sheesh.
This whole “going to the bathroom” to nurse is just freaking ridiculous. Just where is a woman supposed to sit down to nurse the baby? Most restaurant bathrooms have only toilets, and of course they don’t have lids, like toilets at home. Is she supposed to sit on a toilet seat to feed her baby?!?
Some department store bathrooms have “lounges,” with sofas and chairs, but even those are sometimes dirty or just not acceptable. I was once directed to a bathroom with a lounge, that had folding chairs. Yeah, like that’s any big help.
I had some thin cotton blankets (like sheets) that I used to nurse my kids; they weren’t hot, and no one knew what I was doing. Well, they probably guessed, but they certainly couldn’t see, so their eyeballs wouldn’t catch on fire and fall out of their head. :rolleyes:
Granted, BUT it should be noted that if you get too good a grip the owner of said breasts will almost certainly hurt you.
Enjoy,
Steven