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A Short Pictorial History: Cultural Attitudes Towards Breastfeeding and Women's Breasts

Queen Victoria believed sex and passion should be repressed, generating a huge explosion in pornography

Are women's breasts only sexual objects? If so, should they be? This photo essay briefly celebrates and explores the history of and change in society's attitudes towards women's bodies generally, breastfeeding, and breasts.

It briefly dissects the origins of some of the differing attitudes like those of Queen Victoria (right) and more recently in the Middle East (Miss Afghanistan, left), and other locations vis a vis the United States.

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