Public breastfeeding is childcare, not indecent exposure

When we were babies, when thirst and hunger pangs came calling, our mothers would confidently breastfeed us, even in public.

The crusaders of anti-public breastfeeding argue that breasts, like buttocks and other so-called private body parts, should remain under wraps. To this lot, exposing breasts in public, even for the sake of feeding a child, is morally wrong and amounts to indecent exposure. For people like Fred Palo, a call centre agent, breastfeeding a child in public amounts to ‘nudity’ of sorts.

“Much as it is something nobble, exposing breasts before people in public like in a matatu, in the name of feeding a kid is inappropriate. This, in my opinion, should be done in private,” he argues, adding that breasts are special and should only be exposed in the privacy of homes for the said purpose and spouses’ pleasure.