Which is it

I did a lot of reading and research about breasts recently. As a side note did you know that your self exam should include the area around the clavicle, and under it and such? I didn't know that. Anyway, that is not the topic of this post.

And discovered this ...war?...struggle? something over whether breast are for babies or sex. And some people say they are sex organs, sensitive overtly sexual that's why you got to cover up outside or face legal action. The other side says breasts are for feeding children and have only been sexualized by men with mommie issues. In other countries the taboo doesn't exist as much and in 3rd world places they think its funny how we are obsessed with breasts, cause they are for babies only. There is literature and arguments and scientists and sociologists and all these peope going back and forth; breasts are sexual, breasts are for babies, yadda yadda.

So which is it?

Maybe I am missing something here, but can't the breasts be both? It seems to me that any body part can be sexualized because of a fetish or something. It could be ears or feet or fingers or whatever. But that may be a slippery slope, I think, because breasts predominately factor in to advertising and movies and stuff, whereas feet and stuff, not so much.

So what am I trying to say?

It doesn't make any sense to me to argue about the purpose of breasts because whatever the reason that everyone may agree with or not, there they are, and here to stay regardless of what is decided.

Now, I can agree and disagree with both sides of this issue because things are rarely absolute and a middle ground usually exists.

I will never forget something Erin said: "Ok, look, like, ok you see, there is this blade of grass and I can tell you what color I think it is, and you can explain what color you think it is but in between those two ways is what it REALLY is." Which is really intelligent because the grass isn't green, it isn't even a color at all. It reflects all other visible spectrums of light except green, and our brain fills in the rest, which makes us see green. How can we be sure that how one's brain interprets chemical reflection is the same as anothers? What was I saying? ...Breasts, right.

Those people that think breasts are for babies only should work on unsexualizing breasts and the way to do that is reveal breasts in nonsexual situations. So walk around with the girls hanging out and in a few years the breast taboo will fade away. The insistance of this "controversy" fuels the taboo. Those are my two cents and if you collect enough of them you can buy yourself a cheeseburger.