Breast Feeding in Public

The child is a year old. Is that too old? What if she had been nursing a 5 year old?

NORWALK, Ohio— A Huron County woman says she is being harassed for breast-feeding in public.

Chrissy Houtz was nursing her one-year-old son at the Norwalk City Pool last Thursday when several families objected that Houtz was not covering herself up and complained to the management.

"They felt it was disgusting and that they didn't really want to have their children exposed to that," said pool employee Allison Loden.

Houtz said she was then confronted by a supervisor.

"I reminded her of my rights, that under Ohio law, federal law, that my rights and his rights are protected," said Houtz. "We are able to nurse wherever and whenever he wants to."

She faced the same situation a year ago at the pool, and was assured by city officials that her right to breast-feed in public would be respected by employees.

Houtz met Monday morning with Norwalk Law Director Stuart O'Hara, who is now researching legal guidelines on breast-feeding in public places.

 

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This is an outrage!......Doesn't she know that her breasts are there purely for the the enjoyment of men?

Seriously, though, one year old is definitely edging toward the upper register of my weird-o-meter. Five years old is just......wrong.

 

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I figured if I had reproduced I'd just wear a giant t shirt...no bra, and put the baby up my shirt for lunch.
Hopefully without getting too distracted.

 

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I think there was already a topic about that, or some discussions in the past (as far as I remember).

Should we share our outrage that some woman got 'harassed' for breastfeeding her child in public ? Or ? I can't imagine this happening in Europe, but for it to happen in the USA seems rather plausible to me -- this clinically sterile attitude that's well intermixed with religious ideologies, that's where it's sprawling from. These people feel disturbed at the sight of a mum doing one of the most basic things she could do for her child, but they seem to have no issues sharing the same water with thousands of other people whose cells and other disgusting bodily fluids remain in the waters.
I wonder though, whether it was because they felt disgusted that she'd feed her child with her naturegiven milk producing body parts, or because she exposed her nipples too much under the sun. I wonder. Really.

Edit: Err, also, what is wrong with breastfeeding your child when it is older than 1 year old? What the hell. Instead of feeding it with a baby bottle, they're using their breasts. What exactly is wrong about that? I guess it's less wrong to have a 30 year old lover sucking on those daymn tits, eh?

 

In public, I would say two years old is the limit. At this age they're eating solids and running around. Mom would have a hard time holding the interest of child long enough to empty. So then what? Just let it hang? The child can go cracker-breast-cracker-play-breast. At that point bottling it is more practical and sanitary. The child still get's the nutrition and it's less socially awkward.
At five years old you're could be tampering with psychological faculties that may have lasting effects..."yo, mom..Boob me!" Ah, no. I don't think so.

 

I sort of figured...teeth. Ow.

When the teeth come in, the nerples would have to be protected.

 

I still don't see what's socially awkward about that if both mother and child are comfortable with it. What exactly makes it socially awkward? Poor men who have to wait more than a year to get the tits back only for them..

 

Dear God. Breasts are primarily FOR FEEDING CHILDREN. It's our god damned braindead culture that decided breasts were for sexual titillation.

 

What makes any nudity or natural bodily function socially awkward? I would say it's probably rooted some way in insecurity...Those who are confident in their choices and bodies will always be more willing to push the envelope in this regard. I've read on these pages that the sexual fascination with women's breasts is largely an American trait. IDK what that would be attributed to.

 

You always post things that I never get to see. Perhaps you could send a few of these women here and let me judge whether or not they are unsettling.

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When I notice it happening, I get shocked and then embarrassed (at my own shock), then I fuck off if I can...lol

 

I just think "lucky baby".

 

"Ample bosoms" are the most obvious indication of a woman's reproductive status, and so men are naturally attracted to breasts and the women who have them. Reproductive status is the second most important purpose of breasts following their primary use to nourish children. Obviously, without their primary purpose, there would be no secondary purpose.

I've heard this often posited at other times and places. However...

• To begin with, there's the 25,000 year old, über-busty Venus of Willendorf stone fertility figurine.
• In the 3,000+ year old Epic of Gilgamesh, a woman flashed her breasts at the wild Enkidu in order to capture him.
• Unlike any American newspaper I know of, the British newspaper The Sun has published its breasts-exposed Page 3 young women beginning in 1970.
• But yes, America does have its McDonald's golden arches.
• And Americans were largely responsible for the invention and development (no pun intended) of breast implants.

 

Since the human female trait of Breasts, regardless of pregnancy status, being engorged all year round was an evolutionary trait developed in Africa...it's their fault!

We are merely carrying on the tradition...all over the world.

 

Perhaps those who thought that way were "small tited" women with small minds as well? :shrug:

 

That's stupid and overtly sexist. She should sue the lot of 'em.

I always found it to be big breasted women with small brains. The results are inconclusive so far. I'll have to do more intensive research on the matter and get back to you.

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You're both wrong. It's nipple size that's the proper correlate of female intelligence.

 

More than a mouthful is just wasted! :itold: