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Asherdelampyr -> RE: Breastfeeding, taboo or not (6/16/2009 11:13:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: VirginPotty
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Most definitely! It's the neanderthal mentality that thinks women should be isolated when they're on their period.
hey now, it says that in the Bible, so I know its true :P
((Couldnt resist))
Not being a Bible scholar myself ....where's this located? (Inquiring minds wanna know) [:)]
Let me check
Here it is :D
Leviticus 15:19 - 30:
19 " 'When a woman has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
20 " 'Anything she lies on during her period will be unclean, and anything she sits on will be unclean. 21 Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 22 Whoever touches anything she sits on must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening. 23 Whether it is the bed or anything she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean till evening.
24 " 'If a man lies with her and her monthly flow touches him, he will be unclean for seven days; any bed he lies on will be unclean.
25 " 'When a woman has a discharge of blood for many days at a time other than her monthly period or has a discharge that continues beyond her period, she will be unclean as long as she has the discharge, just as in the days of her period. 26 Any bed she lies on while her discharge continues will be unclean, as is her bed during her monthly period, and anything she sits on will be unclean, as during her period. 27 Whoever touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean till evening.
28 " 'When she is cleansed from her discharge, she must count off seven days, and after that she will be ceremonially clean. 29 On the eighth day she must take two doves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. 30 The priest is to sacrifice one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. In this way he will make atonement for her before the LORD for the uncleanness of her discharge.
I think that this is some sort of variation on the concept of "Original Sin" My point, though I am loathe to admit that I have one is that a few centuries ago this was SOP for a woman on her period, obviously these rules changed, and rightly so.
We are dealing now with a similar concept, that somehow the act of feeding a child is unclean
OF course my views are biased in that I believe that the only good use of clothing is if it is cold out or you run out of sunscreen
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