For those of you who haven’t heard, facebook has joined the rank of the ‘Your breasts are there just for me to look at” club, whose members ‘til now included airlines, malls, nude sunbathing opponents and a bunch of teenage boys (sorry boys, I know you are well ahead of airlines and Facebook when it comes to the fine details of anatomy, biological function, and voyeurism).

It turns out that Facebook has been quietly removing the photos of breastfeeding women from their site—if they are obscene, of course, which only involves any sighting of that oh-so-erotic nipple that their baby is impudently hanging on to in order to, you know. eat and live.

On December 27th, Facebook members held a virtual nurse in, uploading breastfeeding photos to their pages, and updating their status to ‘Hey Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene,”--also the name of the online group.

I joined. I breastfed my son to the elderly age of 16 months, enduring...