What is "natural"?

Same as cloning piggies and cows, surrogacy and freezing of sperms/eggs are often questioned, or rather accused as "unnatural."

It has a lot to do with our spiritual concern that "things are supposed to happen just the way they do." But when it comes to "natural" or "normal," where should we draw that line?

We change our hairdo, fake our hair color, and put make-ups. We know how to treat a disease, by taking medications and procedures. Abortion has always been discussed as a controversial issue. Should we stop or keep going ?

And most of the all, we wouldn't be such civilized human kinds if we were satisfied the world we had. Some may fear we are reaching the point where god stands, or destroying ourselves with civilization.

The most scary thing is, there is no referee.

"The Gay 100"

by Paul Russel (1995)

In this book, Russel ranks 100 gay and lesbian luminaries at his own discretion.

To name a few of the people put into a ranking, the 3rd is Oscar Wilde, 20th is Shakespeare, and 99th is Madonna.

Wanna know more? Open the book and find out! But some of the names won't strike you if you are not American, I guess.

The writer from my country, Yukio Mishima is in, though!

Peeking such talented people acknowledging their homo/bisexuality, it occured to me that humans live in the middle of gender.

Are u male or female?

How confident can you be with which sex you belong to?

Referred as "sex", the sex of body and the sex of brain are determined at different time, not necessarily congenial to each other.

Without special catalyst(event) to happen to, a mammal is supposed to grow as female, even though its gene is XY.

A male/female sex hormone has a lot do with the construction of your gender system.
This hormone should work at a suitable time with a desirable amount of it, or your body and brain may chose contradicting sex.

Individual sex is not something you can put in order.
The study toward the discovery is still keeps going, for human is much more complicated than any other mammals.

Belgian babies are all the rage for French lesbian couples

According to Gay Japan.com, there is a growing number of French lesbian couples to achieve "artificial insemination" (artificial pregnancy with donor sperm) in Belgium, the neighbour of France.

This is because the act between homosexual couples is forbidden in their country. For the arrival of lesbian couples, Belgium now has a "little baby boom".

Natalie Bassak , who has given a birth to three children through the method, says "There are no prejudice towards homosexual couples in Belgium. They rather welcomed us."

However, this trend is currently so "in" that the reservation for artificial pregnancy has a "wait list."

It might be the time for France to deal with the problem by their own.

Breast milk

It is said breastfeeding promote the psychological attachment between mother and child trough physical attachiment.

Having food cannot be as beautiful as this!
One of my favorite video :-)

Adopting Mother Buying a Bresat Pump

According to Globe and Mail in May 22 / 2007, Natasha Baird, the 32-year-old adoption mother -to-be has been able to breastfeed her baby through the helps of lactation drugs and supplementers.

Breastfeeding is so big in child care/medical authorities now. Breastfeeding is fixed in almost everyone's mind as CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT.

With more lesbian or even reproductively-challenged mothers, eyes on induced breastfeeding is growing.

However, this is of course no easy work. "Getting the milk to flow remains a demanding process for mothers who haven't given birth. In addition to the hormones and the domperidone, mothers-to-be must pump around the clock - all the while knowing that the adoption could fall through. Adoptive mothers who want to breastfeed say they often face resistance from many of the players involved in the adoption process, including doctors, social workers, foster families and even the birth mother."

Ms. Baird, who is in the process of adopting her baby almost 2 years old , says her hard work is worthy. "I couldn't get pregnant but I could breastfeed," she says. "My body was finally doing what it was supposed to do."

family guy -- nursing as a father/mother

Generally, we believe parenthood fanction with a father and mother. And they have respective role to play.
Do you think you can be a good mother figure as well as father figure?
But don't feed your breasts if you cannot do milking... lol