Re: The Partial Boob Ban

[debismith@moscow.com]

  Thanks, Joan, for the direct approach. It does indeed seem 
Moscow has banned the wrong boobs. It will be interesting to 
watch the outcry when the police are asked to decide who is post-
pubescent (a term with no legal definition which depends on 
secondary sexual characteristics alone). And what of those of us 
with very little "chest swelling"? Can we still go topless if we have 
nothing to show? Flat-chested grannies being arrested? I, like 
Joan, have heard from friends all over the US, Canada, and Great 
Britain about how ridiculous this whole matter has become. 
Meantime, we ignore the important issues facing our community---
is it misdirection? Bread and circuses to keep us from noticing the 
real problems and issues?
Also, thanks to  the kind person who let me know public breast 
exposure while feeding an infant doesn't count because the child's 
mouth covers the breast. I still don't get it. Either the breast is a 
nutritional resource or it is a sexual stimulant. Either way, it 
doesn't miraculously become "pure" when full of milk nor "nasty" 
when milk glands aren't operational---it is still just a breast.
Debi Robinson-Smith
debismith@moscow.com