'Who owns the breast: child or
husband?”
Speaking with both women and men,
the responses were pretty evenly split: half of the folks saying that since the
primary purpose of the breast was for feeding, it therefore belongs to the
children, while the other half argue that since the woman belongs to her
husband, he “owns” everything about her, including her breasts.
We all know that the woman owns the
breast. After all, it is attached to her body so husband or not it is hard to
claim ownership of something that is not in your physical possession.
Likewise,
just because breasts are also mammary glands does not mean that women are not
using the breast right if it is for purposes outside of being a food source for
a baby.
Some women do get sexual pleasure
from their breasts, and in fact, recent studies have found that nipple
stimulation activates the same brain areas as vaginal and clitoral stimulation.
How and in what way her breasts are being used is solely up to her.
Yet before we attribute this to the
backwards thinking of some indigenous Africans (because I know how some folks
think), we in Western societies too find ways to enforce, albeit subtly, this
belief that the use of a woman’s body is not of her own fruition and it is a
major reason why some folks responded with flat out ridicule when Angelina
Jolie announced that she had both breasts removed in hopes of preemptively
striking against a hereditary and aggressively deadly form of breast cancer.
Never mind her very real health concerns, keeping a pair of perky breasts was
deemed by some as much more important.
The negative reaction to her
announcement should serve as a reminder that the female form, particularly the
breasts, are still very much treated as public domain, created for the sole
purpose of sexual arousal – regardless if she sees it that way or not.
Source: madamenoire.com
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