Photos of babies breastfeeding- on the web

While breastfeeding in public is very common and widely accepted in most European countries, this is obviously not the case in the US. Most of you have probably read about women not being allowed to breastfeed on aircrafts, at airports and other public places. These events opened a wide discussion about breastfeeding in public. The Mothering magazine published an extensive article "Lactation and the law" in their summer edition and several bloggers including Jennifer @ La Lactivist were writing about breastfeeding in public.

Yesterday, the discussion got a new dimension when Techcrunch published a story about how "Facebook  has taken down pictures of users breast feeding, and has even gone as far as banning users completely on the basis that the pictures constitute “obscene content.”

As social networking sites (including several that are only designed for parents) are emerging at an incredible pace the issue of whether breastfeeding act constitutes an obscene content will definitely need to be resolved.

To make the whole thing even more complicated, the social networking sites are not limited to a single country and national laws and usually they have users from all over the world. The attitude toward breastfeeding in public and publishing breastfeeding photos varies increadibly between countries and I wonder who is than to set the rules on the web?

What I am thinking when reading about such events is what is wrong with our society? Did we really lose all the contact with the nature. Did we forget how all the generations "before the formula" grew up? Did we lose all common sense about what is obscene? We don't mind watching naked women and men appearing in the media promoting all kinds of products, but we obviously do mind watching babies eat.

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