Natural v Sexual
Holly McNish
October is national breast cancer awareness month and I want
to blog about the nature of the breast function as opposed to it being only an
object of sexual gratification. On national poetry day poet Holly McNish waxed
lyrical on the topic of breastfeeding on a spoken word piece entitled Embarrassed. Her poem was written from
her experience of wanting to breast feed her baby daughter in an open space but
had to resort to the ladies toilets, so not to annoy the public. She rants
about the way “tits” are displayed in billboards all over the country, yet when
she needs to fulfill her natural responsibility society shuns it, therefore
encouraging more formula milk.