Comments on: Literary slut, visual prude

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:39:32 +0000

(although I can’t resist checking the People of Wal-Mart site..)

By: Jodi

Jodi — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:38:47 +0000

I’m a librarian. Enough said, right?

By: Lori B

Lori B — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:43:13 +0000

I’m with you on the context thing. Seeing a boob pop up while reading the morning blog, not okay. Having my best friend show me (pre children) that yes, Viriginia, your areola do grow to the size of small dessert plates when you are 9 months pregnant, frightening but okay. It’s all about which boobs I am seeing and why. Now, if one of my friends could just show me what her boobs look like after they’ve had a lift and can give me the name of her surgeon, that would be awesome!

By: Suebob

Suebob — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:07:33 +0000

I love your dad.

By: MamaChristy

MamaChristy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:01:13 +0000

Boobs are okay. Nipples are not.

Funny story, since you said you like them. Right after I had my first child, my husband took a photo of me breastfeeding my baby in the recovery room. It was all lovely and very “Madonna and child” in an ugly gown. A photo that I like having for family viewing. And my wonderful, sleep-deprived husband who was proud of his wife for providing nutrition for our baby send it to our family, friends, his co-workers and mine. Sweet. Except I think you can see where this is going. Yeah. Nipple. Totally showing. I was MORTIFIED.

Nipple are NOT OKAY unless, like Summer said, “NSFW”. :)

By: Susan M. Boyer

Susan M. Boyer — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:54:57 +0000

I have never been ambushed by boobs on the internet before. I’m obviously not reading the fun blogs. (Not that I have a desire to SEE boobs–I don’t–not at all. I don’t even like looking at my own.) But a anyone who does such a thing would have to possess a wild abandon that might prove entertaining… unless nudity was a regular feature, in which case that wouldn’t be my thing.

By: ChristieNY

ChristieNY — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:44:53 +0000

PS: your Dad’s comments always crack me up – the exchange between you two is very entertaining! ;)

By: ChristieNY

ChristieNY — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:43:38 +0000

I completely understand. For heaven’s sake if they haven’t shown pics like that in the past, they should have at least made it a link or something where you have the option to click on it or not so we can choose NOT to view it!

I’m also a hypocrite though, I don’t mind pictures of breastfeeding women or seeing a woman breastfeeding, if their child is – say – under the age of 3. I can tolerate reading about extended breastfeeding with no problem but pictures of obviously much older children breastfeeding gives me the “ugh this is not okay” feeling. Go figure? lol

By: Joshilyn

Joshilyn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:20:01 +0000

Hey lit-slut. Every stinkin’ TIME I try to comment here it grows to 2K and I just go post it as a blog entry.

By: angie

angie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:11:05 +0000

Frankly, I find boobs pretty amusing, whether it’s a funny story or a photo. As are butts. Gotta love a good butt photo. I actually have a coffee table book full of nothing but photos of butts. (Junk is even more amusing. I mean seriously, why are men so proud of how those things look?) Mare wrote it well… as long as it’s tagged so those who don’t want to see it don’t have to, it wouldn’t bother me a bit. But blindsiding one’s readers for shock value just isn’t nice. If you came to my house, I’d put my book away.