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CNN.com has an article covering (uncovering?) the latest breastfeeding controversy:  a photograph on the cover of a magazine depicting a mother nursing her baby.  Yep, there’s a bare breast.  And a happy baby.

According to the article, there has evidently been quite an uproar about the photo, including a mother who shredded the magazine so her 13-year-old son wouldn’t see it.  Evidently, she feels that a “breast is a breast,” and that her son doesn’t need to see something as sexual as a baby nursing on a bare breast.

Uh, yeah.  If your 13-year-old-son is anything like the average 13-year-old-boy, I’m sure he’s seen a heck of a lot worse on network television, dating advertisements that pop up just about everywhere on the internet, and pre-teen fashion magazines with scantily-clad underage models. 

You, Mom, had the opportunity to balance the cleavage of society with something that’s natural and certainly not sexually explicit.  Instead, you belittled the breast to a simple sexual tool, and that is now how your son will view those parts of the female anatomy.  Way to go, Mom!