This could be an interesting religious practice to accommodate in your local cubicle farm: the Islamic head of the "Teachings of the Prophet Mohammed" department at a prestigious university in Egypt recently issued a religious edict-a "fatwa"-giving his blessing to adult men breast-feeding from female coworkers as a way of accommodating Islamic rules prohibiting unrelated men and women from being alone together at work. Under Islamic law, breast-feeding can establish a type of maternal relationship between a child and a woman, even when the woman is not the child's natural mother. The cleric, Ezzat Attiya, determined after lengthy study (of what I can only guess) that the same rule would apply to adults. Accordingly, following his logic, a man nursing from a female coworker would have a family bond with the woman and they would be able to work side by side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual liaison.
Right. Professor Attiya is now facing a disciplinary panel at the university, this kind of legal creativity not being appreciated in certain, high level circles.
The article is here. Thanks to the Wall Street OpinionJournal.