There is a good one for you. Many Americans think a mother nursing her baby in public is completely inappropriate for the same reason they object to breasts on billboards. Germans consider it natural, and to object is obscene because you are seen as interfering with one of the most basic, wholesome, natural acts. To object to the billboard, you are a prude who can't appreciate the fine form of the human body (or, for the religious, appreciate God's finest creation).
I don't think you're right about that. I never met anybody who objected to me nursing my baby in public, and I nursed everwhere: airports and airplanes, churches, park benches, restaurants, and once on a lecture platform seated next to a Catholic bishop!
Even here in FR, where there's usually a huge volley back and forth in breastfeeding threads, the majority of us agree that public breastfeeding is fine, as long as the mother doesn't turn breast-baring into a public statement.
(And BTW, on such threads I'm always a vocal breastfeeding advocate... check it out if you like!)
Germans consider it natural...and to object is obscene because you are seen as interfering with one of the most basic, wholesome, natural acts.
OK, then! Your kind of Germans are my kind of Germans! ;o)
To object to the billboard, you are a prude who can't appreciate the fine form of the human body (or, for the religious, appreciate God's finest creation).
Oh, come on. I don't think we're talking about classical Aphrodite, with or without nightie, which you can see in public buildings and parks and such all over America; nor are we talking about sacred images of Blessed Mary nursing the Christ Child.
I suspect it's commercial slutty shots to sell clothes, beach resorts and beer. And ubiquitous commercialized nipple and crotch-shots are something we can do without.
I re-assert what I said before: streetcorner display of female nudity doesn't translate into a sense of reverence for sexual wholeness. If it did, you'd have a lot more marriages and a lot more kids. Because marriage and kids are the results of whole and wholesome sex: sex with its bonding energy uninhibited and its lifegiving power full-strength and unashamed.
