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Sexualized breastfeeding RANT

Amanda • Thu, Jan 21 • Happily married to the love of my life (:

Okay so this is something that I never thought could never be done. In the US we have this crazy fight for women's right to breastfeed in public without harassment. I think this is crazy that it's 2016 and we still have to fight for this right to do something that is completely natural. But as most of the world knows, the US is pretty backwards when it comes to natural things like that.

But anyways, there was a video on Facebook that had gone viral and eventually taken down. It was a young Spanish girl breastfeeding 2 or 3 kids, a baby and I think 2 toddlers. The problem with this video was that she magically found a way to Sexualize it. She was all done up sexy and no shirt and just laying on the floor letting her kids go to town.

Now I don't have any children so I've never breastfed, but I completely respect however people choose to do it because I know that I one day will have kids and do plan on breastfeeding and I know I will find a way that works for me.

My problem with this video is that it does not help our fight for the right to breastfeed in public. The fight is to prove that breastfeeding is not sexual in any way but a nessecity and basic right that babies and mothers should have.

The way this girl has the video is in a way that many men are reposting and drooling over. She has perfect boobs (possibly boob job) and a makeup face. Guys are drooling over this! I've caught my husband and his friends even having this video downloaded on their phone next to their other porn! This woman is not helping the fight!

She just recently posted another video claiming that it was "wrongly" taken down and that she isn't "hurting" anybody. She is hurting people! She's hurting every mother out there who is trying to prove to people that breastfeeding is not something to be sexualized or thought about in a sexual manner.

Yes I know I will have comments telling me to "mind my business" and that "I know nothing on the subject since I haven't experienced it for myself" and all that jazz. But I seriously can't be the only person who thinks this way about the video?

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