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 | Today is the last day of World Breastfeeding Week, an international celebration of nipple sucking. For some people the idea of talking about breastfeeding and sexuality in the same conversation is anathema. Others understand that we do all sorts of things with our bodies, and the power to say some are sexual and some are not should rest with us. I'm not interested in shocking or grossing out or dictating to others what is appropriate and inappropriate. But every August I appreciate the opportunity to celebrate our bodies as they are, including our actual breasts which are rarely as neat and tidy as they are presented back to us in popular culture. ~ Cory | |
Opening Conversations to Close World Breastfeeding Week
This year's theme, and logo, leave a few of us out, so I thought it was a good time to write us back in.
| Sexuality and Breastfeeding
A lot of our experience of sexuality is experienced in and through our bodies. Like any new activity we do with our bodies, if we start to breastfeed there will be an impact on our sexuality. What we do with that experience is largely up to us.
| Breastless, Hairless, Heavier, and in Pain
A reader writes: I'm a 31 year old breast cancer survivor, and I recently had a double mastectomy. I'm midway through the reconstruction process, so I don't yet have implants or nipples. And I'm currently going through chemo, which has made me lose my hair and gain something in the vicinity of ten pounds. I've had vulvodynia, which makes penetrative sex anywhere from uncomfortable to impossible, depending on the day, since I was seventeen years old. So now I have no feeling in my chest, as well as pain in my vulva. I've always been pretty happy with the way I look, but the combination of being breastless, hairless, and heavier, in addition to the ongoing vulvar pain, is making it difficult for me to love my body. Any tips? My response.
| New Research on the Evolution of Monogamy
Two new studies tell different stories about how mammals came to monogamy. In addition to trying to decide who we think is right, we should be asking ourselves whether their vision of monogamy bears any resemblance to ours.
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