For a long, long time, I was very embarrassed of having brown nipples! I know, this sounds crazy, but I truly did find the mention of their tint to be blush-inspiring. I even wrote a whole monologue once about how I had learned early on that pink nipples were the thing to have. In the naughty movies I snuck as a kid, all the women were white and all of them had pink nipples. Pink nipples were (and are) omnipresent. So, imagine little 7-year-old breast fetishist me soaking up all these nipple images and quickly cataloguing what "sexy boobies" looked like. You can probably understand why I thought pink nipples ruled.
While in Thailand in June 2009 I went into Boots (a UK owned drugstore/toiletries place), and found on their shelf a cream that makes your nipples pink. Now, as you may or may not know, most people who aren't white have brown nipples.. some are cinnamony and some are almost purple-black, ranging from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. Yumm! This cream promised a "healthy" way to pink nipples: that pesky dark nipple skin would painlessly flake off revealing new "healthy" pink skin. Needless to say, I found this anthropologically fascinating but the breast activist side of me sighed a little sigh of sadness.
Thankfully, in talking to my...
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