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In a video on ABC News, addressing the controversial subject of public breastfeeding by mothers, two actors with a hidden camera set out to see what kind of reaction they will get from unsuspecting patrons at a local restaurant when one of the actors -- who is pretending to be the manager of the restaurant -- demands that the actress who is pretending to be a mother innocently breastfeeding her infant, cease exposing her breast in public or leave the establishment.

What is remarkable is that several people in the restaurant did not immediately side with the woman, even though most of them were females of child bearing age. But then it is likely that firstly the women may not have felt justified in defending the woman, not only because of the general attitude of this over-sexed society, but also because of the disloyal policy many businesses expect to operate under which states that they have the right to refuse service to anyone. This policy is actually a most preposterously pragmatic approach that they actually do not have a right to enforce, but I digress.

The actor in the video even goes so far as to protest “I am trying to work here, I don’t want to have to see you expose your hooters.” To which the woman replies indignantly “My hooters?”

But still nobody does anything to defend the woman’s right to nurture her young child.

That people would actually be so salaciously motivated or repugnantly prudish as to object to a mother exposing her breast in public simply to feed her baby is preposterous. What do these people say of the Venus de Milo, or Michelangelo's statue of David? This is a society of which a majority allegedly believes that the human body is art, not just some depraved sex toy to be veiled or seductively posed.

If for any reason people truly believe public breastfeeding to be something which is offensive, or liable to debate as an objectionable act, then the nation should first forgo all forms of denigration of women and their bodies by prohibiting all production and sale of pornography and sexually explicit businesses such as “titty bars” or strip clubs; including places such as Hooters, a popular eating and drinking establishment which hires women to dress in tight revealing clothing and wait on tables. What is remarkable is that Hooters actually uses an Owl as its logo. The wise bird would likely object if it could.

Bill Maher, a popular television show-host and comedian who feels uncomfortable around breastfeeding moms, actually claims, “breastfeeding a baby is an intimate act…I don’t want to watch strangers performing intimate acts, at least not for free.” But then Maher is an idiot, and hopefully nobody is actually taking him seriously on many subjects his feeble mind attempts to pretend it understands. Yes, he gets paid to be ridiculous…or maybe he’s just being himself. At any rate, one would hope that the American public does not hang their morals on his assessment of social decency.

The fact that America has become a nation which intends to profit from the exploitation of women, or the frailties of humanity, is no reason to be invading the realms of perfectly natural human behavior as if the human being is to reflect the depravity that media and corporate money mavens appear to have hijacked.

To prohibit women from breastfeeding anywhere is certain denial of the collective human species in one of the most deplorable and ignorant fashions. The act of breastfeeding is one of the most beautiful and socially nurturing commitments the human species is capable of engage in, and to adulterate it by likening it to a sexually intimate act is an extremely slippery slope, and indicative of a society on the brink.

What is astonishing is that a married couple in the video actually has the nerve to side with the store manager, and the wife, obviously not an open minded or nurturing individual, claims that she has kids and would never do that in public. The husband then dutifully states “yeah, it makes me feel uncomfortable.” As if anyone expected him to say, "oh, honey, what's wrong with it? It's just another woman's boob. I rather enjoy the human purity of it, makes me feel alive"

These days, in this society, a statement like that would likely get a man in more hot water with the wife than missing an anniversary party to watch the big game.

Alarmingly, 57% of Americans disapprove of mothers breastfeeding in public. Which is of course directly affected by the fact that pornography is a burgeoning businesses in the nation, and sexually explicit content is one of the most prolific forms of entertainment in almost all areas of media and the internet. Just take a look sometime at what videos are most popular on social websites such as Youtube and Myspace.

Not to mention the fact that the latest Christina Aguilera video is a depraved and sleazy expose that is targeting, of all things, children. Regardless of what anyone claims, the musical entertainment industry has been targeting the youth of each generation for decades, and typically attempts to appeal to the lowest common denominator by attacking young people when they are most vulnerable. The industry predominantly employs a strategy which seeks to pander to rebellious and confused teens when their hormones are doing most of the talking. But then, there is a dearth of truly eductional content out there that is meant to combat this corporate assault on our society...but once again, I digress.

That so many Americans actually now defer to the depravity and hyper-sexuality of the nation’s marketing schemes, and denigrate the humanity it exploits, is utterly perverse, and I would say that those who are most outspoken on this subject should be ashamed of themselves, however, it is obvious that they are already excessively controlled by the shame they have been deceived into embodying.

What is unfortunate, is that these people then expect to shame all of the other functionally sound individuals around them who are just trying to live their lives in an equitable and symbiotic relativity which is compliant with the laws of nature, rather than follow the degrading trajectory of social exploitation and media hype that causes narrowminded and pedantically puritanical morons to demand that the humans around them hide their humanity.