Nursing Mothers & Wives 

I want to visit a nude beach with my wife but I am afraid I will get an erection and what should I do if it does?

But Western society came along and declared the female breast sexual. As a result, breastfeeding declined to the point that an advocacy group, La Leche League, was formed in the 1950s to counteract this trend. A group to advocate the most natural, the most healthy, and the most convenient way to feed our babies!

Why did breastfeeding decline? Sexualizing the female breast meant that exposing it was obscene. The convenient nature of breastfeeding disappeared. Now mothers had to resort to all kinds of idiotic behavior to feed their infants. They had to hide their breast--and their baby--under a towel or blanket. They had to be exiled to another room, away from "normal" people. They've even had to sit in a public toilet stall as a last resort, rather than exposing that nasty, sexual breast of theirs.

This is utter madness!

Breastfeeding in America is so inconvenient, because of this nonsensical belief that an exposed nursing breast is obscene, that many women simply choose not to breastfeed, in spite of the fact that breastfeeding is the healthiest choice for their children.

Because the breast is sexualized, women want their breasts to look as attractive as possible. Therefore many women choose not to breastfeed because they're afraid it will cause their breasts to look less attractive. So the health of our children is compromised for purposes of vanity!

Because mothers' breasts are eternally hidden from boys and men, they fixate on the female breast as an object of sexual arousal. This body part whose sole purpose is to nourish our children in a natural, healthy way, becomes a sexual object--quite artificially. Rather than becoming familiar with this body part and its glorious, innocent purpose in the life cycle of human beings, we have degraded it into an object of lust. How sick is that?

This madness has got to stop! The female breast, especially in its function as nurturer to the human species, must be restored to its original nobility. Women must be able to feel comfortable nursing their children. They must be made to feel accepting of their breasts, no matter what condition they are in. They must be able to feel that the purpose of their breasts is to nurture children, not to be objects of lust for men.

How do we do this? By allowing women to nurse their babies wherever, whenever, the need arises, without forcing them to jump through senseless hoops to avoid being seen. The human race has survived millennia of exposed breasts as mothers nursed their children. The morality of "enlightened" Western civilization will not crumble at the sight of a nursing breast.

The funny part is, it's perfectly legal to do so! The La Leche League's website states:

Mothers have a right to breastfeed where they go with their baby, even if that is out in public. It does not matter whether the mother goes to a public or a private place, or even whether they are in a state with legislation. No one has the right to tell a mother how to feed her baby, especially a way that increases the risk of illness to both mother and baby! Legislation has been enacted in nearly one-half of the states in the U.S. because they want to clarify this right... It is hoped that legislation will help to change society's attitudes that breastfeeding is something indecent and should not be done in public....

Babies need to be breastfed on demand, and mothers should not feel pressured to use bottles.... No breastfeeding mother should be told that she should have to use bottles, anymore than a bottle feeding mother should be told that she should be breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is an act of nurture, not something to be hidden. Mothers should be allowed to choose for themselves how they want to feed their baby, and our society should not discourage their choice, especially when it is one that benefits all of us.

It is important to remember that women have a right to breastfeed in public whether there is a law or not. The purpose of legislation is NOT to legalize it, but to clarify the fact that women have the right to breastfeed in public, or that it is not a criminal offense, such as indecent exposure. Thus, if you are in a state that does not have legislation, you still have the right to feed your baby where you go.

If it's not illegal to breastfeed in public, then why doesn't it happen? Why, at those rare times when a brave mother does do it, do people become shocked and offended and try to stop it?

Because the social mores of modern Western civilization declare it a taboo. It's an "inappropriate" thing to do. Exposing the breast is at least indecent, if not obscene.

The truth is, that belief is obscene, not breastfeeding in public.

Family Skinnydippers as an organization is fed up with the irrational social obstacles to breastfeeding that exist. Those obstacles are unhealthy for the child, for the mother, and for society in general. Family Skinnydippers is committed to changing the attitude in society that the female breast is sexual and ought to be hidden.

The female breast is a nurturing organ. To call it sexual is the act of a twisted mind. We need to allow mothers to nourish their children in the way nature intended; the way that is most healthy for the mother and child, both physically and emotionally; the way that is most convenient for the mother (since when should feeding one's children be a difficult act?); and in the way that will liberate the breast from the warped attitude in our society that it is an object of lust for men.

The way to accomplish this is simple: breast feed. Do it whenever, wherever it's needed. In private, in public. At home, at the store, at the park, even at church. At family gatherings, at Little League, at the swimming pool. Everywhere.

The law is on the side of nursing mothers. Medical science is on the side of nursing mothers. Mental health principles are on the side of nursing mothers. Common sense is on their side.

The only influence against nursing mothers is the irrational, unsupportable attitude that female breasts are indecent and should never be seen. The time is long overdue to liberate the female breast from its prison of intolerance, to normalize it away from the sexual object it is perceived to be and back to the instrument of nurturing it has always been.