Facebook nudity policy draws nursing moms' ire

This is so bizarre! I would go so far as to suggest that Facebook and other facilities are acting in a deeply unethical way by conflating breast feeding with "nudity", let alone "obscenity". I say that children of all ages NEED to see nursing mothers breast-feeding their babies.

I call it an offence against humanity to suppress information about breast-feeding - including photo-images of mothers nursing their babies. It is not just something normal, it is generally optimal for infants to be breast fed for as long as the mother can manage it, because the infants are protected against diseases for which the mothers have antibodies, and breast milk is homoeostatically balanced by the mother's body to suit the child's needs for nutrients and water [e.g.varies with ambient temp, and so forth].

This is actually a significant human rights issue.

Western societies made breastfeeding immoral. Women are taking out of airplanes if they are breastfeeding!

But if they were playing video games? oh, that is fine, they are just having "fun"...

Are you guys serious? This angers you? I think that breasts are great. I am very jealous of babies. But you think that someone's facebook page should be a place for people to learn about how newborns eat? Come on now, go fight for something important.

Umm... so the rules are different for her because she has a kid sucking on her tits?

I don't think so.

I think she's attention starved and probably is used to doing outrageous things to get attention.

People have such different views, and they'll never agree. I think that if she wants to post a photo of herself while breast-feeding, who cares? For some women, they enjoy sharing this part of their lives with their friends. If her friends were over, would she really need to go to the other room to be "decent"? Others get so easily offended, it's rather disgusting. As if feeding a baby is obscene! Get over it people, she's not flashing anyone.

And what would you say if some women puts a picture of herself breastfeeding a 40 yr old guy? Whats obscene about that ? And would you want your young son looking at some "MOM" exposed breast? nipple and all ? what about a 21 yr old girl showing her breasts? Whats obscene about that ?

this a perfect example what america is busy with only pics:) when the emperire its in tis final year

the economony will crash get ready for martial law
and riots:)
and then rember breast feeding moms on facebook lol

I think facebook should add a filter \ category where the poster of the image can tag for discretion. Facebook users should have an option to enable nudity if they so wish too.

People should respect that not everybody is at a particular phase in their lives that they may be at. Saying breastfeeding is perfectly natural and should therefore be a public affair is about the same as saying that of sex. Breastfeeding like sex is a very personal and private thing irrespective of the fact that we all do it.

Keep it clean with respect for all concerned, Facebook is a breath of fresh air without all the filth one finds on other sites like this. Surely keeping your private matters to yourself is in the interest of all public here?

I feel that somewhere between shydoc and morality_first would be a happy compromise. Nudity would be going too far but the ability to tag images that some would find disagreeable would be useful.

I see nothing wrong with pictures of women breastfeeding or men and women in skimpy swimwear but I can understand how some may find such images disconcerting.

This is so bizarre! I would go so far as to suggest that Facebook and other facilities are acting in a deeply unethical way by conflating breast feeding with "nudity", let alone "obscenity". I say that children of all ages NEED to see nursing mothers breast-feeding their babies.

I call it an offence against humanity to suppress information about breast-feeding - including photo-images of mothers nursing their babies. It is not just something normal, it is generally optimal for infants to be breast fed for as long as the mother can manage it, because the infants are protected against diseases for which the mothers have antibodies, and breast milk is homoeostatically balanced by the mother's body to suit the child's needs for nutrients and water [e.g.varies with ambient temp, and so forth].

This is actually a significant human rights issue.

Urination is also very healthy and natural. So does that mean it's within my civil liberties to whip it out for the purpose of urination anywhere I please? No, of course not. Same could be said for sex. Should people be able to expose anyone they want to to their sexual acts? No, of course not.

Although breast feeding is really as close to a non-issue as you can get, it can become the grounds for the prior two references down the line.

That and it's not necessary to take a picture of yourself while breast feeding and put it on the internet. I don't take offense to it, but it's highly unnecessary and rather base in general.

As for breast feeding in public, well that's a different case. If a child needs to eat and there are no suitable substitutes to breast feeding, well, who am I to say a baby should starve because someone is offended? However, on the internet, it's wholly unnecessary, and that's where the argument lies, necessity vs tact.