Review the following two paragraphs and add a
topic sentence to help the readers understand
what the paragraphs are about. Also, color-code
your topic sentence in blue.
1. In our society everything is used for
personal attraction and social success and
breast-feeding is supposed to spoil these.
What might be tempting on a Cosmopolitan
cover is looked down upon when the same
part of the body is used for feeding (one
might remember another episode in Seinfeld
in which a scantly-clad friend of Elaine
walks on the road only to lead Kramer and
Jerry to a car accident). Many women even
in this Feminist age still believe that
breastfeeding does not have any health
value for children and are worried that
breastfeeding would only spoil their
attractiveness.
2. Some thinkers have argued that if men are
mostly built to get financial security, women
are designed for the birth and welfare of
children and thus breast-feeding is a
biological necessity. Gillian Bentley, a Royal
Society research fellow at the University
College in London, England, argues that
women's breasts were meant for feeding
babies and not for any romantic purpose.
Even the books on motherhood do not
suggest that breastfeeding is a personal
right which has a social purpose and doing it
in public is perfectly all right. In some states
it is not legal to nurse a child in public, and
law-makers fear that allowing this practice in
public would allow women with exhibitionist
tendency to misuse the activity (Tamaro
145).