I remember sometime back when I was asked to help with the efforts here. Then, two American women came up to us to express their shock at how Asians need an awareness programme like this. They insisted how open Americans all over the US are to this.
I took their words for it.
Apparently, in 2006, there was a photo of a baby feeding from a bare breast which sparked enormous controversy. Women (yes you read it right!)were ironically shocked that a parenting magazine could have a photo of a breast on its cover! It was a New York-based publication.
Even the editor was stunned at how she saw it and never expected it coming from a 'society that claims to be so open but silently bitches about its openness'.
Well, need I say more.
Anyway, the reason I'm talking about this is because I saw a few children at the beach the other day, gathering around a mother breast-feeding her baby. They must have been between five to eight years old.
What made me smile was that they were all trying to play with the baby and make faces at it. They were not uncomfortable with the act at all. I know they were too young to know the significance, but still, it was nice to see that their parents did not rush off to grab or turn them away from it all. There is hope for the future.
But then the bummer.
Sitting adjacent to her, at a nearby bench, were two men, young men in their mid 20s I gather, ogling at her tits as if they were aliens and her tits the mother ship which they needed to establish close contact with as a matter of life and death.
From the beach sand, there was a couple who kept turning around and shaking their heads in disapproval. But get this - they turned around several times with the guy doing it more.
What's wrong with us? What is it about an exposed tit? Hell, what is it about nudity that makes us so squeamish. I guess as far apart and different as we claim to be, this is proof that we are all very much from the same mold.
Tits are beautiful and should be enjoyed, and when they provide sustenance to a new life, isn't that just wonderful?
Missus Singapore out!
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