"As for polyandry..what on earth is your point? I wasn't aware that we did that in this country where socially it would be unacceptable....."
read your own post where you were attempting to create an analogy with breastfeeding that monogamy is the normal homosapien sexual behaviour. It is not. We ought to look at our anthropological roots to see what is a human norm as we our society is layered with cultural expectations, be it breastfeeding or sexuality.
In fact, in this country we practice a form of polyandry (and polygamy for that matter) called serial monogamy. Have you seen how many posts on MN talk about x-dp/ exdh, etc? Have you heard the statistic, were genetic testing done, that about 20% of the men in the US/UK are parenting children who they genuinely believe are their own when they have been cuckolded?
One final time, you say that women should stop trying ot hide behind anthropological norm as a defence for not admitting that they breastfeed for their own pleasure/needs over that of their toddlers.
No we are not using that as a defence, we are citing a research which corroborate our experience that it is normal for children to continue to breastfeed anywhere between 2.5 to 7 years. It is not an opinion, a manifestation of collective neurosis, or dreamed up by JRR Tolkien, it has been documented!
Here is a historical piece of creative writing for you: On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;
That shall she, marry: I remember it well.
'T is since the earthquake now eleven years;
And she was wean'd, I never shall forget it,
Of all the days of the year, upon that day;
Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Act I, Scene 3
(Juliet was breastfed till she was 3 then forcibly weaned from the breast)
Was Shakespeare having a hallucination here or was he reflecting what he saw around him?
PS: Just because you will not accept something does not mean that all the research (peer reviewed, controlled for socio-economic factors blah blah,) which say differently lose any of their validity.