Breast Mystery

[dotinthesky]

Yesterday, on Bank station's busy platform, a baby begins to cry. The mother, to my right, picks up the baby, sits down, and gives her tit to the baby for a feed. Incongruous looks from some commuters (it doesn't bother me).

To my left, a 17-year-old blonde builder opens his copy of The Sun, right on the page 3 girl, and stares at her breasts as if his life depends on it.

Comments

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

I think the love of the page 3 girl is a different thing to liking nudity. It's still a covert love of the human form, in a sexual way, rather than an open, comfortable lack of inhibitions, non-sexual thing. There are some British people who are fine with it, I agree, but there's not many of them! You'd be seeing the minority who are because the rest of us would never dare venture to such places where we might have to expose a thigh ;-)

It is silly reasons, but it's as ingrained as apologising when someone walks into us, so there's little I think that can change society en-masse now. Maybe gradually over a few generations, and then only if people really wanted to. Mixing in cultures for whom even showing an ankle is considered taboo probably won't speed things along though!