Thanks for the great link to the AAP recommendations for breastfeeding. I hope many readers will follow the link and read the document from beginning to end.

Thanks again!

I hate to disappoint you (or more likely, weird you out more), but adults drinking breast milk as a fetish is nothing new - and existed way before the internet. I have known men who have gotten off from lactation - that of their partner, their private wet nurse, or a bottled donor - for decades. In situations where they are paying for their dose of lactose, the rates are pretty high.

But, hey - Milk does a body good..?

Blech!

One born male rather than female could appreciate a little more emphasis on the obscurity of these things that so intrigue you.

There's a line between investigating the state of humanity, and the juvenile "hear what so and so did?". And this touches that line.

In tennis that's out.

How about in Journalism?

Hm. Don't have to think to long about that one. Nope.

Ew!

One fetish or another - like drinking breast milk - may not be your personal turn-on, but why be judgmental ("leaves bad taste")? Nobody's getting hurt, there's no lack of consent and it's a lot less distasteful than, say, spending an evening with Imus or having your assignment to Iraq extended.

Fetishes aside, adult humans steal and drink milk from cows in massive quantitites, but people find the notion of human adults drinking human milk extremely strange. Female mother cows produce milk for the same reason female mother humans do- to provide sustenance to their young. Yet in this culture the vast majority of people find it perfectly acceptable to drink the milk of another animal that's intended for its own young. Not only that, we put the poor bovines in horrible, horrible conditions in order to meet the demand for this milk. Like humans, cows need to have given birth in order to produce milk, so they are continually impregnated in order to keep production levels steady. Animal rights also aside, I find it strange that so many people don't wonder about this.

I totally would have done this. Why not? I needed the cash as a SAHM of babies. I had a freezer full of milk that I worked hard to express. Unfortunately, my babies considered the bottle to be a form of child abuse. (Darn you, attachment parenting!)

The best I could do with it was donate it to a wildlife rescue to feed to orphaned animals. 95% of it went down the sink. I had enough milk for at least another baby. They were chuuuuub-by! I made good stuff. I joked that I wanted to enter myself as a cow-calf pair in the fair.

Heck, if some big man-baby wanted to pay me $150 in cash money for my milk, I would STILL be lactating. And my youngest is five. (You can get a pump.) Heck, women sell their panties, for the love. Why not make people happy?

This is too funny, because my girlfriends and I have often joked that we wished we could get paid for something we are so good at.

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "adult child."

Bet some of these crazies are looking for an immune boost from this component.

I recall...not sure...that it, as the major booster-of,

is pretty well tied to the initiation of lactation.

Here's why.

Because despite Foucault it's just plain wrong.

That's why.