We Need to Grow up sbout Our Bodies

This issue has a couple of dimensions to it. The most obvious at least to me is the sex dimension. It seams like most people are polarized into one of two camps. Either they look at sex is bad and evil and never to be seen or talked about or the other extreme of wanting an open orgy. I realize that this is more a continuum but it is so easy to push people to either extreme. This is also more than just the discussion and treatment of sex. It also affects how people treat mothers who breast feed in public. It is very difficult to freely feed the child without causing discomfort of the sight of a bare breast. For me at least, I am trying to not react to the sight. My instinct is to either stare or look away. Both seam rude.

There is also a lot of medical conditions that feel just as private as sex or is on the nastier side of life that need to be discussed. I am not going to name them here because they are too many. Even though I do not want to hear all of someone's medical problems or announce mine to the world, there still needs to be a way of having a conversation about the ickier things of life.

The most unfair thing we need to grow up about is how we treat handicapped people or severely injured people. How do you engage them without staring or looking away? We are back to being not used to seeing a mother breast feed but in a more cruel sense.

There has got to be a way to deal with the more sensitive things of like in a mature way. I realize there are a lot of things in life that make us uncomfortable. We need to be better.