Clarification: Breastfeeding isn't porn; it's perfectly natural

Monday, April 23, 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: breastfeeding, infants, porn

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(NaturalNews) Just a quick clarification about my hosting of the Alex Jones Show yesterday. During one segment I was talking about Kraft Foods and their publicity image of an infant breastfeeding while holding an Oreo cookie. You can see that image here:
http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/19/oreo-cookies-b...

During the broadcast (www.PrisonPlanet.TV), I was talking about the exploitation of children by corporations, and I also mentioned how HBO was showing little children doing things "that I don't even want to talk about." Those things include this little girl sucking on a giant dildo, which is part of HBO's new "Angry Boys" show. See the image here (WARNING, this is GRAPHIC):
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/0...

So during the Alex Jones Show, I mentioned that we weren't going to show any of these images because we didn't want to participate in showing pornographic images.

I either misspoke on this point, or some of the listeners heard me wrong, and some people thought I was saying that an image of breastfeeding is pornographic. I just wanted to clarify here, for the record, that I absolutely hold no such view. In fact, I think breastfeeding is the most natural thing in the world, and I have been a consistent defender of breastfeeding and the nutritional value of breast milk.

In no way did I intend to imply that breastfeeding was somehow "pornographic." If it came across that way during the broadcast, it was an innocent mistake or a misstatement on my part. Let the record show that I openly and strongly advocate breastfeeding, including breastfeeding in public. In fact, I have been an outspoken opponent of factory-made infant formula, explaining how human breast milk is so much healthier.

To the point of child porn, I do believe that HBO's depiction of what looks like a 7-year-old little girl sucking on a giant pink dildo is entirely obscene and a gross exploitation of children for corporate gain. I am outraged by this attempt to "normalize" the appearance of sex toys on screen with little children, and I most definitely agree with the conservatives on this issue who say that such depictions are immoral and almost certainly illegal.

Yes, sex is natural, and breastfeeding is natural as well, but showing little children on screen with their mouths sucking on sex toys crosses the line into unacceptable child porn.