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Testicles are for generating children. Should I be able to post a picture of my scrotum to Instagram? Do most men get aroused at the sight of female breasts? D

Testicles are for generating children. Should I be able to post a picture of my scrotum to Instagram? Do most men get aroused at the sight of female breasts? Do most women get aroused when they have their breasts fondled/licked/etc? If the answer is yes, then female breasts are a sexual organ. This isn't even a matter of opinion.

jMyles 10y ago
> Should I be able to post a picture of my scrotum to Instagram? I'm radical enough to say, "sure." Doesn't hurt me any. Sadly, we live in a society where genitals (and acts of sex) are not typically tolerated in public. That sucks. And if you want to undo that, I'm with you. Sex in public! But there's also a different standard here. Restraining your ability to display your testicles in public (for example, on Instagram) doesn't, to my knowledge, affect your capacity to get by in life. You might not realize this (or maybe you do), but for poor or homeless women, the difference between being able to breastfeed in public (and in some cases, at work) is the difference between being able to breastfeed and not, which in turn is the difference between statistical likelihood for a number of favorable health outcomes and not. There's no reason not to tolerate - in fact embrace - the display of breasts and breastfeeding in socially normal places. It is a huge help to many women.
- akjainaj 10y ago
  How many pictures of homeless women breastfeeding babies have been taken down by Instagram? How has that affected the lives of those homeless women who, by definition, do not even own a mobile phone? I don't even understand why has all of this turned into a breastfeeding discussion, when neither the article nor I mentioned that.
  - legodt 10y ago
    This isn't about that. It's about how many women in public are put in danger when breastfeeding because people like you are unable to separate breasts from sexuality and people who believe that such a display should be censored or punished? You might not belong to that second group but the first group's opinion enables that line of thinking
    - dang 10y ago
      Please also stop.
  - dang 10y ago
    Please stop.
projct 10y ago
That argument doesn't work since you can say the exact same thing about necks and thighs.

jMyles 10y ago

> Should I be able to post a picture of my scrotum to Instagram? I'm radical enough to say, "sure." Doesn't hurt me any. Sadly, we live in a society where genitals (and acts of sex) are not typically tolerated in public. That sucks. And if you want to undo that, I'm with you. Sex in public! But there's also a different standard here. Restraining your ability to display your testicles in public (for example, on Instagram) doesn't, to my knowledge, affect your capacity to get by in life. You might not realize this (or maybe you do), but for poor or homeless women, the difference between being able to breastfeed in public (and in some cases, at work) is the difference between being able to breastfeed and not, which in turn is the difference between statistical likelihood for a number of favorable health outcomes and not. There's no reason not to tolerate - in fact embrace - the display of breasts and breastfeeding in socially normal places. It is a huge help to many women.

akjainaj 10y ago
How many pictures of homeless women breastfeeding babies have been taken down by Instagram? How has that affected the lives of those homeless women who, by definition, do not even own a mobile phone? I don't even understand why has all of this turned into a breastfeeding discussion, when neither the article nor I mentioned that.
- legodt 10y ago
  This isn't about that. It's about how many women in public are put in danger when breastfeeding because people like you are unable to separate breasts from sexuality and people who believe that such a display should be censored or punished? You might not belong to that second group but the first group's opinion enables that line of thinking
  - dang 10y ago
    Please also stop.
- dang 10y ago
  Please stop.

projct 10y ago

That argument doesn't work since you can say the exact same thing about necks and thighs.