Thursday, 01 January 2009

• Boobies?

  Maybe you’ve heard about facebook’s new (COUGHCOUGH) debate; a young mother’s picture was deleted from her account by admin’s after being tagged as sexually explicit/adult content. There was a nurse-in and all sorts of various different protests that I don’t care to go into.

   

  Now on one particular website I saw an interesting comment on how as a society we shouldn’t be afraid of showing women’s breasts. I think that’s a wonderful idea. As a society, in America in particular we’re pretty prudish when it comes to the publish sphere; we can find every single kink and fetish under sun behind closed doors, through no label packaging and anonymous billing but the television still can’t say the word cunt.

   

   

   

  I rather like boobs, and I like the idea for our society to be okay with showing them. However a word of caution, and by no means do I intend disrespect; while I don’t have any problem with seeing your breasts or your brat sucking on them, I am not going to be watching you because it’s a beautiful and miraculous sight, and it is not going to fill me with wonder at the sight of a mother and child. Simply put, Nipples, on men and women, are sexual characteristics.

   

  So please, feel free to leave the blanky off and coo at that sweet baby, however not everyone is going to be seeing that particular act as quite so…PG.

   

  

  Christian Aguilera as shown on Ellen Degeneres following the birth of her son.

   

  I don’t think Breast feeding is or should be the main issue though. We’ve seen it in the middle east where women are made to cover up so much many of them die because their doctors aren’t allowed to give them vaginal or breast exams. A more open society is by no means a bad thing. And I don’t think a few tit shots are going to traumatize anyone, least of all a kid if the reports are true and all the mommies really are going natural.

   

   

  First lady Laura Bush speaking in the Middle East about Breast

  Cancer awareness, Self diagnosis and genital-related taboos.

   

  We’ve made sex and sex characteristics taboo in normal conversation outside the bedroom, and so we’ve seen a rise in what could nearly be described as counterculture; softcore porn on MTV. And besides the fact that these displays utterly lack taste, they really are killing our music industry.

   

  So free your Nipples in the name of lunchtime, of OBGYN’s “practicing their love”, in the name of VH1, in the name of spring breakers everywhere. Or at the very least get the damn FCC wedged out from between then (they do need aired out every once in a while).

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