"I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine," one person wrote.
"I immediately turned the magazine face down," wrote another.
"Gross," said a third.
Readers of a free parenting magazine weren't complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing. It's a sign that some Americans are squeamish over the sight of a nursing breast, even as breast-feeding itself gains greater support from the government and medical community.
Babytalk is a free magazine whose readership is overwhelmingly mothers of babies. Yet in a poll of more than 4,000 readers, one-quarter of responses to the cover were negative, calling the photo -- a baby and part of a woman's breast, in profile --inappropriate.
One mother who didn't like the cover explains she was concerned about her 13-year-old son seeing it.
"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast -- it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."
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Shredding a breast?!? This woman and all the others like her make me incredibly sad. Body shame is a terrible thing, even more so when it is passed on to the next generation. This woman is teaching her sons that the female body is disgusting and should be treated with violence and disdain. Now isn't that a wonderful lesson?
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