This article made me realize something: It's funny how much we impose our own moral judgments on our kids. I think we forget about childrens' inherent innocence and in fact corrupt that innocence by making a perfectly natural process, like breastfeeding, seem akin to watching porn. We forget that kids pick up on everything that we say and in some cases what we don't say. The fact that some people are uncomfortable with witnessing a woman breastfeeding in a public place or on a TV show teaches kids that there is something wrong or bad about it, which is simply untrue.
Maybe it goes beyond this though. Maybe our culture has become so sexualized that any depiction of a breast, no matter the context, is considered to be sexual. In fact, the article seems to suggest that the mere allusion to the breast is enough to cause an uproar. According to the CDC, nearly 75% of American women have breastfed their children at one point or another, so maybe it's about time we start drawing a distinction.
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