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Can a Mom Pumping Breastmilk Really be Sexy?

Posted by JeanneSager

Question: What is totally lacking in any element of sexuality? Answer: A mother hiding away in her office with plastic tubes stuck to her boobs and a little vaccum pulling on her nipples. Necessary? Yup. Sexy? Are you kidding me?

An office supply giant's security guard apparently thinks so. Now he's facing jailtime. Gregory Mannino pled guilty to "capturing or distributing the image of an unclothed person." I don't feel bad for him, but I'd like to know what in the heck he was thinking. 

He violated the poor woman's privacy, any way you look at it - and for that he deserves to face the five to twenty-five years of prison time the Grand Rapids Press says a judge will get the chance to decide on come January. But come on, what did he thinking was going to happen in there? Did he really think he'd be getting a sexy peep show?

I've pumped before. It's a pretty utilitarian process. Comparing it to milking a cow isn't that far off. I've been in a milking parlor, and they just use bigger machines. They get a lot more too - hence the bulk tank in place of the bottle. Does replacing a giant cow's teet with a swollen Mom's boob make things any different? 

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Comments

 

Shannon said:

Yet another reason why the workplace is unfriendly to breastfeeding.

I hate it when I have to pump, and one of the reasons why is how absolutely unsexy it makes me feel.

November 26, 2008 1:54 PM
 

Treespeed said:

What the guy did is obviously terrible and wrong, but it's ridiculous to judge a person's particular kinks and preferences between consenting adults. I know my wife feels unsexy after a run, but I think she looks hot. The important part is the mutual consent.

November 26, 2008 2:13 PM
 

Jenn said:

Why the f%@k are women worried about feeling "unsexy" when they are pumping milk??? You're feeding your baby for chrissake, not posing for Playboy. Get over it.

November 27, 2008 9:18 AM

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Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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