As most people know by now, Salma Hayek’s very public
breastfeeding in Sierra
Leone was not just a moment of compassion for
a hungry child. It was that, but it was also a calculated—and noble—attempt to dispel
the notion in some parts of Africa that breastfeeding
women can’t have sex. Given this entrenched belief, you can probably guess how
husbands feel about their wives breastfeeding.
It’s easy to see such an urban legend as shocking, but, as Ada
Calhoun points out in TIME, the U.S. certainly has its fair share of breastfeeding taboos
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