Woman as Lover or Mother: The Venus-Ceres Crisis

"In our modern "civilized" society, woman's role as a loving person is divided. The sensuous, erotic function (woman as lover) has been disassociated from the maternal role (woman as mother). One example of the suppression of the sensuous aspect of the mother-child bond is the use of plastic pacifiers. Few people feel it is socially acceptable for a mother to breast-feed her child openly in public, but if she is apparently enjoying the process, it is considered somewhat pornographic and even incestuous. Yet science tells us that women are not divided biologically. There is a physiological behavior that is common to both lovemaking and nursing, as well as natural childbirth. The hormone oxytocin is released during orgasm, lactation and childbirth."

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