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to think that breastfeeding isn't right...

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ScaryBeardyDeadyman · 21/10/2012 10:35

In this situation...

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SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 22/10/2012 08:38

diddl, I think she has young children

diddl · 22/10/2012 08:49

I thought that she hadn´t bfed them though?

SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 22/10/2012 08:58

No, but she must have started doing this before it was too late.
Which in itself raises a load of questions.
Anyway this is all by the by as I think this is a load of (breastfed) dog poo.

diddl · 22/10/2012 09:12

Yes, I hadn´t really thought of that.

Also-bad generalisation of me I know-but she´s in her 40s so I was thinking kids at least at school?

So either she´s been feeding the dog for years or it isn´t really feeding.

Overthinking this!

Startailoforangeandgold · 22/10/2012 09:14

It's a bit odd, but a lot of the OTT fuss people make of their dogs is a bit odd.

ProbablyDoingTheWrongThing · 22/10/2012 09:22

The dog was wanking with it's back leg, there was a lady going on about morrisons bargain pork in the background ( £2 a kilo parently ) after the 3 rd viewing I finally realised I was seeing a wanking dog, the dog was having a wank >

It's my neighbours dog, I see the wanker daily, I will now be crossing the road >

ProbablyDoingTheWrongThing · 22/10/2012 09:23

Oh and i've been put off pork for life.

diddl · 22/10/2012 09:31

Last thought-she was maybe expressing & bottle feeding.

Wonder if the dog gets much/any benefit?

ICBINEG · 22/10/2012 09:35

hmm okay so I didn't like the dog one...but almost all the piccies I saw on the breast feeding animals page failed to excite negative emotions.

It's also interesting that some people acknowledge it might be okay to give animals/family members BM as long as there is a bottle in between the boob and the mouth....I think this highlights our national conditioning to think of breast as primarily sex objects and also a certain level of boobaphobia...

SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 22/10/2012 09:45

They did talk about her "breastfeeding her child with a bottle" so that may be what they meant

SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 22/10/2012 09:46

Really icb? I would not want to feed another adult who has been conditioned, as most of us have, to see sucking on a nipple as an adult as sexual. I don't think that makes me boobphobic!

diddl · 22/10/2012 09:49

Ah, OK.

Must admit I didn´t really read it.

ICBINEG-is not wanting an animal/family member to bfeed from you really indicative that you have a problem & think of breasts as sexual only??!!

Shagmundfreud · 22/10/2012 09:53

charity

Roman myth of woman who breastfeeds her elderly father. Portrayed in art over the centuries as a depiction of an act of great kindness and daughterly love.

Re: cross species - how about Romulus and Remus: here

Very Hmm at all the 'ewwww'ing going on on this thread.

ScaryBeardyDeadyman · 22/10/2012 09:59

shagmund have you got any pets? Care to give it a go and report back to us?

ICBI my boobaphobia is so crippling I can't look at 50% of the population and I've given up the internet. I'm so scared Shock

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ICBINEG · 22/10/2012 09:59

diddl If people don't have a problem with the substance itself being used to feed animals/family members, but do have a problem with the use of the breast for this purpose then it stands to reason that they are boobaphobic.

IF they don't like the idea of giving BM to anyone but babies then that is IMHO a more self-consistent view point...although I would question why anyone in that position drinks animal milk...

ICBINEG · 22/10/2012 10:00

erm...okay I hope the use of the term boobaphobic implies I am not exactly frothing over this whole issue....

PickledFanjoCat · 22/10/2012 10:01

I drink cows milk but I'd struggle to lie down and suckle from its teats.

I would donate a member of family breastmilk for cancer healing properties but I would prefer them to consume it through a drinking vessel.

If this makes me repressed then so be it.

diddl · 22/10/2012 10:02

Well I´ll happily admit to being "boobaphobic" then!

Only my babies were getting bm from my breasts.

PickledFanjoCat · 22/10/2012 10:02

My name is pfc and u am boobphonic. Hmm

ScaryBeardyDeadyman · 22/10/2012 10:04

Boobphonic! Grin

Can you hear boobs?

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PickledFanjoCat · 22/10/2012 10:05

And boobphobic, I have a hard life.

Shut the fuck up boobs!

ICBINEG · 22/10/2012 10:06

pickled well thinking about the cow teat thing...I mean presumably when you don't have access to clean bottle then it is best to go direct to the source? The bottle only gets a look in in terms of storage...and transportation (I am now picturing the milk round as a process by which a block leads a confused cow around the housing estate).

For humans I personally found a huge decrease in efficiency when you switch from direct to expressing....if you going to feed anyone breast milk it is certainly more efficient to get it direct from the boob.

I think not doing so is just a mechanism to mind sanitize the process...which wouldn't be necessary if we weren't all hung up on boobs and borderline boobaphobic....

ICBINEG · 22/10/2012 10:06

bloke not block

ScaryBeardyDeadyman · 22/10/2012 10:12

I don't like milk anyway. From bottle, boob, cow or supermarket. I'm not prejudiced against boobs, I just like to eat dry cereal. Especially frosties, they're great!

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ICBINEG · 22/10/2012 10:16

I have gone off it since discovering it contains CALORIES Shock

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