At a time when flesh-baring fashions prevail, with scantily clad models and well-endowed movie stars spilling out of the pages of glossy magazines, the latest outcry over public indecency is being aimed at an unlikely target: A parenting magazine for new mothers, distributed free in doctors' offices and filled with earnest advice about babies.
A close-up image of a baby at breast may seem a logical choice to illustrate a story about breastfeeding, but it is stirring up controversy over the latest issue of babytalk magazine.
The picture, which has the profile of the baby as its focus and does not even have a hint of a nipple exposed, has fuelled the debate about breastfeeding in public, pitting those who call the magazine cover "gross" and "disgusting," against breastfeeding advocates who say society's squeamishness about such images underscores the need for an overhaul of public attitudes.
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