Readers Shocked, SHOCKED at Magazine’s Breast Cover

Puritanism is reigning supreme once again as many readers of BabyTalk magazine were offended en masse by the sight of — horror of horrors — a breast offering sustenance to an infant on the magazine’s cover.

AP:

“I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,” one person wrote. “I immediately turned the magazine face down,” wrote another. “Gross,” said a third.

These readers weren’t complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing, on a wholesome parenting magazine — yet another sign that Americans are squeamish over the sight of a nursing breast, even as breast-feeding itself gains more support from the government and medical community.

Babytalk is a free magazine whose readership is overwhelmingly mothers of babies. Yet in a poll of more than 4,000 readers, a quarter of responses to the cover were negative, calling the photo a baby and part of a woman’s breast, in profile inappropriate.

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