NAKED AND THE NUDE

Not the nipple, stupid!   It's the MAMMARY

(...and the nipple)

 

Are women's breasts sexual? Uh ...yeah.

 

An obvious part of the package that makes a woman beautiful and very feminine is that part of her body that has men (even some women) think about sex in an everyday sort of way. We're turned on by female breasts, enjoy touching them during intimacy, even obsess about them. A "flash" of mammary innately plays upon the idea that these attributes are not anything at all like legs and thighs or hips and butt cheeks while not entirely inanimate objects of desire.

An open conversation about the fruit of womanhood is not altogether uncomfortable; from breast cancer awareness to breast-feeding in public, men do seem a bit lost and maybe uncertain about what they're supposed to think when women raise the topic; or just too afraid of what they might say.

A man describing his thoughts when, oh, a woman's nipples become sexually aroused ...well, he literally radiates within seconds, taking his cue by reaching maximum arousal within minutes.

To look at a nude, from classic to modern, what is there about "artistic" statuary and portraits that inspire carnal thoughts of LUST over their erotic and pornographic potential?

Be it entertainment or advertising, viewers drawn by the appeal of human flesh provides an audience in getting people gazing. All in all, this "peep show" capacity calls attention through titillation with that out-of-bound audacity to embrace the importance and sophistication of the naked image. Under the circumstances, whatever nuance that distinguishes pornographic nakedness from the artistic nude appears less chaste and aesthetic, and any honest difference between sexiness and nakedness becomes increasingly an oxymoron.

You don't stop looking with questions that go unanswered. You're a voyeur who goes unashamed.

 

“There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”—Gisele Bundchen

The 30-year-old Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen in the April 2010 edition of Vogue that she scrupulously dieted while pregnant thinking how "a lot of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals."

Gisele careful of what she ate gained a mere 30 pounds prior to giving birth.

In the September issue of Harper's Bazaar , she spoke of conscientiously of feeding her infant, Benjamin Rein. “Some people here think they don't have to breastfeed." Rhetorically thoughtful, Gisele questioned, "Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?'"

 

Is Breast-feeding Obscene? No, not really.

Indecency exists in the eye of the beholder. After eating the apple, Adam and Eve became the first in

a long, endless line of prudes offended by anyone who displays or exposes a "private" part of the body in public, nowadays guilty in the United States of a Class 1 misdemeanor. A tortured law, to be sure, racked by plunging necklines, open shirts and low-rise jeans.

Still, a sexy woman mostly gets a pass—unless she's breast-feeding. On the other hand, Catherine Donkers got a $100 ticket for a moving violation in Portage county, Ohio for nursing her baby while operating a motor vehicle. But should breast-feeding in public places be illegal.

 

Is committing this act of exposure with the knowledge that you're going to be seen touching your private parts sufficient to trigger a misdemeanor?

Because she's nursing, is a woman's breasts sexual? Does this make exposing them "obscene"?

No, that can't be right.

 

 

"This is a miracle of nature. Every Brazilian mother should breast-feed. The only reason they don't is because of vanity. They're scared their bosoms will droop."—Luiza Tome

The largest park in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has become a gathering for young mothers enthusiastic about breast-feeding their babies lovingly (while less likely to develop certain types of cancer).

"Brazilian women need to think about the health of their babies," Luiza Tome, a Brazilian actress disclaims, "and stop worrying about whether their breast will sag. I breastfed my first child for seven months—and I can tell you, everything soon returned to normal."

 

Susan Schultz of Leipzig, Germany produced 50 gallons of breast milk collected in daily sessions for over a year to the children's clinic at the University of Magdeburg. Wow. But is that sexy? Maybe not. For a woman it's that very intimate, one-on-one cuddling. Clearly, exposure of the breast itself and that sucking action is what's so "horrifying" to the moralists. That's got to be it.

Okay, 6,000 years since the Garden of Eden and Fall of Man and naked breasts (along with those other body parts) remain cause to alarm the moral police and alert the media. Yet a woman minding her own business, organically nursing her child(ren) is neither criminal nor weird. And by should be cleansed of sin, carefree to go naked in the world—at least till Paradise is lost again.

 

Frederick Louis Richardson

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