As a lawyer I helped get midwifery leagalized in Alberta Canada many years ago. This “debate” is debasing to women. A Facebook ban on breastfeeding is out of touch with an enlightened approach to sharing human experiences…which is the essence of Facebook - or at least I thought that was true.

There is no cleavage between good taste and breastfeeding Facebook. Lighten up and get over it.

Breastfeeding always been the weapon of feminists, nothing new that they are targeting facebook.

Hi Ken, when you grow a set of mammaries, your opinion in a debate about what’s “debasing to women” will count.

Many women agree with Facebook on this. There’s such thing as modesty. It’s one thing to accidentally expose a breast while needing to breastfeed in public for the sake of the child, another thing entirely to take nude pics to expose on other people’s newsfeeds on a daily basis. These women are out of line.

There is nothing more disgusting then seeing a woman breast feeding her baby in public. Breast feeding is a private decision that should always be conducted in private.

If a woman chooses to become a mother, she really needs to let go of the exhibitionist thing in deference to her child!

I fully beleive breastfeeding should be the #1 choice for all mothers. I do breastfeed in public because when my baby is hungry I will feed him. However I also understand that many men (including teenage boys) see breasts as sexual and I choose to cover as much as I can to keep them from getting excited over my body (I also cover because baby’s get distracted and want to look all over the place and make the feeding drawn out). I believe it is Facebook’s right to ban specific photos that show aeriola because that is too much breast. They are not saying that they are against breastfeeding in doing so, they are purely saying that they have terms of service for all their users and they expect everyone to follow the same rules even if the breastfeeding photos were not considered sexual by it’s posters.
There is nothing disgusting about breastfeeding! A woman’s body was made to produce the perfect food for her children. A men’s chest are not considered sexually disgusting when displayed in pictures and neither should anyone say so of a woman’s chest. But we must follow rules on posting pictures where other users can look them up. Do we want others to post their truly disgusting pornographic images? No, of course not. So while some breastfeeding moms are against the removel of their pics, they shouldn’t be putting their time and money into protesting facebook. They need to focus on getting the facts about breastfeeding out there and show it in good light so that one day soon others will see it as good. Maybe one day a woman can breastfeed her baby in a restaurant and all onlookers will smile knowing she is doing a good thing rather than looking at her with disgust. I believe post-pardum depression is on the rise because so many women are stuck in their houses afraid to go out because “what if their baby needs to nurse” and they are uncomfortable nursing in public because so many people give them nasty looks and think that something as small as a baby eating under a blanket in the middle of a store is disgusting.

No, the disgusting thing is that you and a few others think breastfeeding is bad to see and want to impose your narrow minded prudish thoughts on others. Breastfeeding is legal in public most everywhere, so there is no reason it should be banned on Facebook. If you don’t want to see it then click to another page.

Why can’t Facebook have a user defined filter system like Google has so people can choose the level of filtering they want?

Urinating is a natural thing as well. It has it’s time and place. I think this boils down to what body parts are we going to allow to be exposed just because there is a need of it.

Perhaps some one should upload a pic of a mother bottle feeding a newborn baby and see what the response is to that?? I personally wouldn’t be too happy.
It isn’t like bottle feeding is a natural thing for a baby to do. Breast are on our bodys for a reason.
For some reason though, most people think babies and bottles just go together. We have been conditioned to believe that bottle feeding is the natural thing for babies to do. You buy crib sheets with baby bottles on them. You buy sleeper suits with baby bottles on them. Childrens books very, very rarely depict a mother breastfeeing it is usually bottle feeding.
The fact is that the people who stand there and say how disgusting it is to see a breastfeeding woman and who are in support of this ridiculous facebook debate are completely ignorant to the actual point.
My feelings on this matter are summed up quite simply:
”The undermining of breastfeeding is the destruction of a natural resource and should therefore be seen in the same light as logging in the rainforests or overfishing our seas and rivers.”
That is a quote from a man.
Andrew Radford,
1991, The Ecological Impact of Bottle Feeding

I’m all for breast feeding. But it is important to point out there is something which seperates the civilized from the uncivilized, and that is the conscience! While breast feeding is a totally natural function in both humans and animals,I must point out, so is mating and bodily elimination. While hunger in babies is natural, both in human and animal, but discression is the better part of valor,and the conscience should dictate, while it natural for an animal to mate and eliminate on my front lawn, that it is completely unacceptable for civilized humans to do so.

The line has to be drawn somewhere people.
How about worrying about something more important?
Lighten up.

It’s kind of gross definetly

I highly doubt a picture like the one at the beginning of this article would be banned by facebook because there is nothing showing. However I’ve seen women put pictures everywhere of totally naked breasts and call it breastfeeding. I had a woman take out both her boobs in front of a bunch of people and use the breastfeeding excuse. Its bad for the breastfeeding cause really. Nudity isn’t allowed on facebook no matter what you’re doing. My breasts are natural without a baby attached to them but I cannot put up a picture of myself topless.
The breastfeeding debate is about the bond and health benefits so why would you waste your time worrying about whether or not the picture is on a social networking site. Does posting the picture increase bonding?

I have a problem with women using no manners and decency while breastfeeding just to prove a point.

I can’t understand why people often compare breastfeeding to human waste elimination. It is not the same thing. We are talking about a baby eating which is what we all do in public, versus human processes that we all do in private. To me as a man it is far easier for a person to leave or not look if they see a woman breastfeeding than it is for a woman to find a location where someone won’t be offended. What if I am offended at the skimpy bikinis women wear on the beaches these days. Do I have the right to ask that they cover up? Most people would consider such a request absurd! Truth is, you will probably see more breast on a woman in a bikini top than a woman breastfeeding. Unless a woman is breastfeeding really openly how often do you even see a nipple? You would have to be right upon her waiting for her to latch her baby on or off to see anything. And what is the big deal about seeing a nipple anyway? It’s amazing how a little nub of flesh could cause so many problems. I’ve pretty much seen the whole gambit of breastfeeding styles over my lifetime. I’ve seen very discrete, I’ve seen letting it all hang out. If the mother is comfortable with whatever style she chooses it doesn’t bother me. I feel like a mother could do much worse things to her child than nurse it in public. As far as Facebook goes, if the pictures offend you, you are always free to go somewhere else on the site. It’s as simple as that!

If a mother wants to breastfeed, that is fine and dandy, but PLEASE keep it somewhat modest.

Who really needs to take pictures of themselves nursing their child? That’s ridiculous and completely unnecessary. Some of you say you can’t compare breastfeeding to urinating in public etc… but how about sex? Sex is a natural “beautiful” thing… aka making love. So can we do THAT in public too? NO! It’s a private matter, just like boobiefeeding should be. Ladies, if you do it in public, at least attempt to cover what you can, or don’t get upset when people say something…

Most people wouldn’t have sex in public so that’s not a fair comparison. Personally, if you want to get naked and have sex in public have at it. It’s not something that most people would share with the world. We all eat in front of each other. No one would ever think to ask someone to leave an eating establishment or park or mall just because they were offended by their eating habits. If someone were chewing with their mouth open or smacking, we would leave if it bothered us. Same should apply to women breastfeeding. I actually think the general population has no problem with breastfeeding in public. There are always going to be those who have to be negative about something. Breast are for feeding babies not for oogling as my mother always told me as a boy. What bothers me is that is not done more often. I think women in this country are too afraid of what ignorant people will think of them. If you want to nurse your child go for it. If you don’t like looking, leave! Maybe you should try talking a woman who breastfeeds in public and see what challenges she has to face. Maybe people would be more understanding if they knew the story up close.