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When porn meets real motherhood |
"Women's breasts are not just or always sexual." But despite their rights to nurse in public, nursing mothers are repeatedly discriminated against. States the Salon in the case of Young: "We Americans love us some boobs, until they're desexualized -- then they seem obscene."
But I do not think the problem in this case is "desexualized" nursing breasts. I think the problem is that in the US, many can't seem to wrap their minds around the various bodily and holistic sexual functions of the breast without being freaked out because of a narrow understanding of sexuality (as I discuss here and here). And then as Tracy Clark-Flory at Salon too points out:
The idea that there is something inherently prurient about a porn star breast-feeding plays right into that classic either-or thinking: Her breasts are erotic in one venue, so they can't be wholesome in another. It's a wonder anyone lets her breast-feed at all!
Lest you think the attack against Young came from a conservative religious camp; think twice. -- The above "creep" accusation in fact came from another sex worker/pornographer. As Clark-Flory notes, "on the one hand, it's surprising to see this attitude coming from a pornographer; on the other hand, it's perfectly appropriate given the way motherhood is fetishized in porn."
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