breasts
In response to the recent controversy, Yule Heibel has a brief history of the breast as propaganda: “In painting after painting, Mary is shown as the life-sustainer of Jesus, via her exposed breast and implied lactation. There were even instances when the lactation was made explicit [...] Bernard had worn himself out practically shouting Monstra te esse Matrem ("Show yourself a mother") at a statue of Mary nursing Jesus, when, lo, the statue came to life and squeezed its breast to squirt a stream of warm milk directly into Bernard's open mouth.”
