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“Breasts like bombs!” deserves the title of headline of the year. (Nova’s original photo here < -- NSFW!)
For its August issue, the American parenting magazine Babytalk published a picture of a child nursing on its cover. The picture, which you can see here, shows a breast in profile and, according to this AP story, “sparked an outrage.” One angry Texan woman told a reporter that she “shredded it” when she saw it. Her reasoning?
“A breast is a breast — it’s a sexual thing.”
I won’t dignify that masterful tautology with a response, but before you laugh it off as just another crazy lady in Texas let me point out that, according to a 2004 survey by the American Dietetic Association, a majority of Americans do not support breastfeeding in public places. And if you look at this page of U.S. breastfeeding laws, you’ll see that not all 50 states have legislation allowing mothers to breastfeed in any private or public location. (As of April, just 32 of them do)
As for the Babytalk cover itself: in a poll of 4,000 of the magazine’s readers (overwhelmingly women with both children and breasts) 25% thought the picture was “inappropriate.”
One can only imagine what they’d think of, say, this (nsfw) recent Stern Magazine cover. Or, here in Slovenia, the recent Nova magazine cover featuring Špela from Atomik Harmonik, topless. (Here are the pictures in question: 1, 2)
Of course, the Špela pictures did also cause a bit of a stir here. But not about whether Nova should have published them on the front page, or at all, but whether Špela has had “enhancement surgery” and if the candid-seeming photos were, in fact, candid.
But even there, there wasn’t much controversy.
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Slovenia: hribovita dežela.
Ah well… Tits where-ever you look. I rembember when I was a barely a teeneager and was looking all over our appartement for my father’s issues of START Magazine, which usually featured a young bare-brested lady with a hairy arm-pit (remember the eighties?!). While I support nudity in all its forms (especially seeing Spela topless), I do find it somewhat tasteless that every friggin’ media in this world tries to boost its profit by featuring one tasteless nude photo after another.
“Joška sta kot bombi” ??? Since when are “joške” masculine?
Shame on you Michael, how can you destroy an aesthetic picture like THAT?
Ah, female nudity - long time no see in this blog :-).
I am completely unable to understand how breastfeeding can be a sexual thing. OK,I can imagine theoretically that it may be difficult to retain neutral thoughts when talking to someone one has seen exposing her breast in the public and feeding her baby just a moment ago. But it really is a beautiful and innocent scene, not to be spoiled by sexual notions - isn’t it?
I love European attitude towards nudity in public. I always sunbathe topless and it would piss me off if someone would try to ban that. And I’m shocked that in so-called civilized western world women(!!!) find breastfeeding inappropriate
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@alcessa: brestfeeding can be a sexual thing in an incestous mama’s boy sort of way.
so it wasnt all push-up after all!
These are definitely not paparazzi photos, but a professional photo session. One of my friends was on that very beach when it took place. He had a camera.
Still waiting for photos…
Breastfeeding laws???? can’t believe that they even exist!! Women can breastfeed where ever they like or need… come on! we are talking about nature
That’s not nature, it’s breasts. They’re sexual. And we all know there ain’t nothing natural about sex - indeed it’s the devils work! And breastfeeders are all vile devil worshipers! Begone Satan, begone! (This sort of logic kinda reminds me of that floating witch argument in The quest for the holy grail… :))
Oh, and Abaris:
I (from Prekmurje) use the masculine form “joški” and I find the dual “joška” correct - the gender may vary regionally.
I am as puritanical as an atheist can get and as pro-American as an European can get, but pardon me when I say: Americans are crazy!
Špela’s rack is hardly natural looking, it looks too big, like it belongs on a fat lady, then there’s that lithe skinny body, it’s not balanced looking. That is why the photo is tasteless even if it is well executed.
I breast fed my two now grown children, I simply got them used to something being draped over them, so that they could be nursed anywhere I was. That’s how it used to be handled everywhere but the States!
Even countries which have near total seclusion of women are more sensible than the U.S. is on this matter.
Ok, so I was poking fun before, but now I’ve read the AP article you linked to, and let me just say… OMGWTF!!1!??? I never realised people made such a big deal out of such an ordinary, even natural thing. That simply boggles my mind. The con voices in that article are just crazy. Full stop.
Cornelius: Amen to that. What makes it even more bizarro is when it’s not old men, but women with kids, doing the complaining.
siegmund: I hope you’ll keep us updated when you get the pictures. (Notice how I didn’t say, “keep us abreast” — too much class for a comment like that.)
not just in the States, Slovenes can be as hypocritical as any overzealousmodest american. go to any mothering forum and ask about brestfeeding in public and behold the outrage of some of the responses. of course it is mostly disguised as a care for the poor child, who can not enjoy the intimacy of the moment, exposed to the public in such a harsh way.
That’s probably one thing that I find most different from back home–the attitude toward nudity. I still can’t forget the whole ordeal with Janet Jackson’s breast. I couldn’t believe how much of an attention this thing got. And how outraged everybody was. I just couldn’t understand what the big deal was. Also this whole breastfeeding business–it’s just so, I don’t know, weird.
Don’t even get me started about what would happen if a woman were to took her bra off at the public pool here. Or by the river where everyone goes swimming.
Girls readily expose their breasts at rock concerts in USA, though. Go figure, nobody complains.
Of course nobody complains. There’s no pesky baby blocking the view.
10 years ago—I presented a photographic show of simple nudes vs. non-nudes: meaning: clothed/lingerie/titliating aggressive pics…..
Anyway—-the “non-nudes” in the show–generated the most controversy (and still do!!!).
EXAMPLE!!!! when I posted the simplest nude on MySpace (ex. woman’s pubic hair and hip shape–no face!! vs. a woman in go-go boots, thigh highs, and a thong–flipping off the camera—it’s still on my page) THE SIMPLE NUDE WAS REMOVED!!!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE NUDE FORM?? and what the hell does it have to do with sexuality? My grandma gets naked every day to shower—she isn’t being sexual!!!!
MEN!!! It’s you (if not the Church)!!! STOP equating breasts with sex!! it’s the pump-grind-response–etc…that means “it’s on”!!!!!!!!
Other than that–you , me and the hottest bitch ever should be able to walk down the street entirely nakeed and not be assaulted, aggressed upon, mocked or even yelled at!!
It’s just your body damnit–let go of your dumb puritanical roots!! LOVE WHAT GOD MADE YOU!!!