@TeenLifeMum
"They are sexual apart from feeding a baby. It’s not okay for a man to walk around with an erect penis but woman’s nipples are fine? There’s some off double standards. Would you really be okay with a teacher having prominent nipples when working?"
So do you assume that those of us who have naturally large, prominent nipples (mine are definitely of the aforementioned rubbery licorice allsort kind on a fairly small breast) are perpetually aroused if you happen to catch the contour of our nipples through our garments? That my nipples are reminiscent of erect penises? Oh dear. My nipples look exactly the same whether aroused or not.
I am a teacher and, while I'm sensitive to cultural norms and wear a bra to work as I live in the UK, when I have periodically worked in my country of origin, I can assure you that female colleagues have ‐consistent with the cultural norm of that context‐ been able to execute their professional role to an excellent standard without wearing bras under their workclothes if they wish, and nobody has batted an eyelid. Because, whether prominent or not, those unaroused nipples are not perceived in a sexualised way and probably not even noticed.
When I went to secondary school and the boys my age were starting to notice girls -and were not shy about expressing their appreciation, as loudly and raucously as in any UK secondary school‐ a girl's nipples (or a female teacher's for that matter) was never in the repertoire of things to comment on. The size of someone's breasts -definitely. A pretty face -sure. But the nipples? Nope. Never. And our nipples must definitely have been visible through our clothing as we didn't wear school uniform and only girls with larger breasts tended to wear soft unpadded sports bra tops, the rest of us went without. Nipples were definitely not a thing.