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As I never said anything about whether women should breastfeed in public, I'm not sure why I was quoted. I just suggested the Coke Lounge might not be the best choice.
 
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I think Nic was asking why a person would want to breast feed in the lounge with the teens and men in the room.

If I were a woman I would not want a bunch of strangers to watch me.
 
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Because a baby still needs to eat???? Regardless of who's present.

I personally would take it to a private place if I had kids too. But it's still their choice if they want to feed their child with a bunch of people around.
 
The permanently enlarged human breast is a peculiarity of our species (2). It may have some signal value in communicating fertility and plays a role in physical attractiveness.

Breasts are less eroticized in subsistence societies where women go topless than in our own where they are exploited in advertising, and in pornography. Even in subsistence societies, breasts are not entirely lacking in sexual significance and are generally stimulated in foreplay according to ethnographic accounts (3).

Moreover, the breasts play a key role in female sexual arousal and we are beginning to understand why in terms of hormones and neuroscience. In their classic report on the female sexual response, Masters and Johnson (4) pointed out that breast volume increases during sexual arousal in addition to changes in the areola and erection of the nipples.
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I bring this up because it is disingenuous to suggest that the only purpose of the human breast is to feed.  In fact it has a significant cluster of nerve endings, in fact during the same Masters and Johnston study a small % or women reported the ability to orgasm from stimulation of the nipple.

So yes, from an evolutionary stand point it is likely that we are programmed to associate the female breast with sex.

While I agree that breast feeding should be encouraged and is healthy for a baby, we can not ignore the fact that it is also distracting.
 
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Zimmy said:
I think Nic was asking why a person would want to breast feed in the lounge with the teens and men in the room.  

If I were a woman I would not want a bunch of strangers to watch me.
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I was actually just pointing out that the lounge was neither private nor empty, when I was there. Somehow I have been dragged into a debate I have no interest in.
 
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Okay, but we live in a society that hypersexualizes the female breast, to the point where it causes people discomfort for a woman to breastfeed in public. Because how dare somebody feed their baby in public, think of the men and how will I explain this to my child.

The main function of the breast is to feed. (As with most animals that feed young with milk.) If somebody either gets off to breasts, or is aroused by their breasts is a different subject. I didn't bring it up because it really had nothing to do with what I was saying. And has even less to do with the park.

I was talking about how, there's only one nursing station in the Festhaus, and everyone keeps saying "Well why didn't they use it?"
 
From a time of use stand point, really the human breast actually spends a very small amount of time feeding. Really most of its existence is spent doing other things. From an evolutionary stand point it spends more time attracting a mate. It is not insignificant that the human breast is enlarged from puberty on, and not just after child bearing. So it could be argued that feeding is actually a secondary function in the human.
 
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This no longer has anything to do with the the previous conversation outside the talk of the function of breasts, which yet again was not the point of my posts, nor does this have anything to do with the thread. (Not that it really did to begin with.)

So I'm done.
 
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it was actually pretty busy in there yesterday afternoon. Also I would add on a refreshing note Zachery's good friend Carl stopped by and spent some time talking to the people in there. I gave serious thought to asking him what he has against the man but bit my tong. I did mention that I knew several fellow pass holders who felt like there passes were being devalued more and more every year. He gave me more of a stock lip service you never know what the future might hold type answer. Still refreshing to see him interacting with pass holders one on one
 
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Wow. Really people?! I still can not find any "law breaking" that these mothers were doing?! IT'S A NATURAL THING TO DO! not sure why you are all up in arms about it? Could you please fill me in? And not in a private message behind the scenes? Or a threatening message to stop harassing?
 
I believe everyone expressed the same sentiment, "breast feed all you want." The issue that was being discussed was if the park had places set aside for said practice, it does, and if a woman might feel uncomfortable breast feeding in front of complete strangers.
 
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I don't really care how/where you feed your babies. I admit that I am a bit selfish though. I almost feel the same way about whiny children in the lounge as I do at Howl-O-Scream. I would rather not have them there at all, with or without annoying parents. I also realize that it is unrealistic to expect parents and children to avoid places in the park.

Even Walt Disney himself said something along those lines.
 
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