Maddie's Coffee Klatch

JStergisStudios   Why does a woman's nipple create such a stir?  Why does it invoke such a reaction from people on all sides?  It's the one "nipple" that all of us are born to accept for nourishment at the initial stages of our lives.  Yet at some point, it becomes a sacred weapon, that defines a woman's sexual morality or purity in some people's minds.  It's incredible how many heated debates that can go back and forth in the extreme left and right.  People towards the middle do really care one way or the other.  Paint, sculpture, sketch and photographic artists adore a woman's nipples.  It's all Nature's art and biology in one unique picture. So why does a woman's nipple cause such a stir in you?

  "77% percent of anti-abortion leaders are men.  100% of them will never get pregnant."  Planned Parenthood Here we go again.  My mother was mostly conservative in her values, except when it came to a woman having her own individual rights in her marriage, and with her body.  My mother strongly believed that a woman should have control over those two things.  Here I am staring down the half-century mark in a few years in my age, and the arguments over abortion are still being tossed around for political scoring points.  I am a divorced white, female growing up near Long Island's Northshore in a predominantly White and fairly affluent community.  During my high school years, I recall a few stories of girls from the neighborhood who had unwanted pregnancies from their boyfriends or a one-night stand.  Those girls quietly went away to visit relatives for a year or longer.  Sometimes for forever.  This was done to conceal the fact that...