I saw an ad for this article — Can Breast-Feeding Hurt Your Marriage? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Thinks So in His New Book, ‘Kosher Adultery’ — Beliefnet.com — and was gobsmacked at his attitude. The very idea that parts of the body can serve more than one function — both sexual and reproductive — seems to have escaped the Rabbi in his education. It’s no wonder that the sight of nursing mother brings out the blue-stockings, even today.
I think of myself as someone who appreciates the various aspects of feminine beauty but seeing a breastfeeding mother — a regular occurrence — doesn’t give rise to any impure thoughts. As often happens, an article like this ends up saying more about the writer than his intended subject.