the Secret Life of Breasts
by Fiona Giles
I read this book back when I was (of course!) nursing my own child. It\’s a collection of anecdotes and stories that look at how breastfeeding is viewed in different cultures and stretches aside the curtain of taboo around it. Some of the stories and information are helpful and interesting, other chapters were (to me at least) very eccentric and bizarre. There are stories of nursing toddlers, the issues of breastfeeding in public, one incident of a mother who discovered her child had been breastfed by another woman at daycare! There there are stranger ones, of men comforting their babies by suckling them, of putting breastmilk into recipes- like homemade ice cream. Even speculations on breastmilk being sold in supermarkets. The chapters I found strangest and even disturbing broached subjects like women\’s erotic fantasies about their own breasts, or porn films starring lactating women. If you\’re interested in the subject of breastfeeding, this book is certainly an eye-opener that will entertain and shock just as much as it inspires!
Rating: 3/5 …….. 267 pages, 2003
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