Just a'wondering about Breast milk

[fuzzywuzzy]

yeah sorry about that it's a misleading call to the page I'll just site what is written,

interesting though, you are that repulsed by this topic?

Pre-industrial England

Adult suckling was used to treat ailing adults and treat illnesses including eye disease and pulmonary tuberculosis[clarification needed]. The writer Thomas Moffat recorded one physician's use of a wet nurse in a tome first published in 1655.[19][20]


As a source of nourishment, the immediacy of this connection is intensified. Breastfeeding has a sexual element as a result of physiological factors. In a study conducted in 1999, approximately 33 to 50 percent of mothers found breast feeding erotic, and among them 25 percent felt guilty because of this.[3] This study corroborated a study in 1949 that found that in a few cases where the arousal was strong enough to induce orgasm, some nursing mothers abandon breast feeding altogether.[3] In a 1988 questionnaire on orgasm and pregnancy published in a Dutch magazine for women, asked "Did you experience, while breastfeeding, a sensation of sexual excitement?"; Thirty-four percent (or 153 total) answered in the affirmative. An additional 71 percent answered in the affirmative when asked "Did you experience, while breastfeeding, pleasurable contractions in the uterine region


I wonder if men are extremely repulsed by something that essentially shows a woman in her own happy healthy domain?

In its issue of March 13, 2005, the London weekly The Sunday Times gave a report of a scientific survey (composed of 1690 British men) revealing that in 25 to 33% of all couples, the male partner had suckled his wife's breasts. Regularly the men gave a genuine emotional need as their motive.[8]


I find this interesting because it debunks your assumption of manimalia

ANRs has also been employed in cases where a mother may desire to breastfeed her child, but has to find an alternative to inducing lactation.[11] She may have difficulty beginning lactation, so supplements the infants's suckling with that of a partner. Or there are cases where breastfeeding was interrupted for an extended period of time as a result of infant prematurity, infant absence, or mother's illness (taking prescription medication).[12] In such cases, adult nursing has often caused lactation to continue until it was possible for the child to resume breast feeding. Others may want to nurse an adopted child, so uses an ANR to stimulate breastmilk production before the adoption occurs. Though such scenarios do not have erotic motivations, erotic expression may be an additional aspect of the relationship.

[spot]

fuzzywuzzy;1317555 wrote: you are that repulsed by this topic?Erotic lactation? Yes. Lactation? No. What you need to do is focus on one or the other, they're different things. The entire thread's driven by your unwillingness to differentiate them.

[fuzzywuzzy]

Oh for heavens sake. Read what I put up. the actual page itself hardly even responds to the erotic side of things. . At least now I know where your mind is at.

[spot]

You asked "How many people do you know that are repulsed by women breastfeeding in a shopping centre or restaraunt? Are not those people seeing it as a repulsion and to an extent offensive and therefore ....seeing it as unnatural?"

Very few, I'd have thought. The cultural objection, where it exists, is to exposed breasts in a public place, the feeding bit is incidental. The degree and focus of cultural objection varies over time and by place. Victorian London objected not merely to the bared ankle but by extension to uncovered chair and table legs. The entire existence of the fig leaf in Western Art traces such prudery.

[fuzzywuzzy]

and yet in Victorian London and indeed in public (albeit within the lower classes.) the breastfeeding of babies was a natural act and nobody shied away from it. And if physicians thought of breast milk to be a natural nutritional medication and of sustanence then why is it today we (general public) repulsed by such a thing ........and continually head down the track of fetishness or something unnatural? Pre or post industrial?

why do you feel the need of a compulsion to be repulsed?

Note; many instances in america of women being convicted of sexual assault and public nudity because of breastfeeding in public.

Again I ask the question why isn't breastmilk a natural sustaining resource to benefit women?

[Lon]

No one is discussing the benefits of Breast Feeding the child, or maybe Iv'e missed it.

How breastfeeding benefits you and your baby | BabyCenter

[fuzzywuzzy]

yep Lon, we know all how to breastfeed children and the like, (not exactly brain surgery) ....documented and so forth.

But I asked a question, seemingly a taboo question, at the beginning of the thread.

Can the benefits of breastfeeding go beyond the mother child nutritional value to a wider value?

[Bill Sikes]

fuzzywuzzy;1317185 wrote: Have you ever tasted Breast Milk.


Yes, out of curiosity, it tastes like milk.



fuzzywuzzy;1317185 wrote: Is it linked to the suppression of women breast feeding in public?


I do not understand the question.



fuzzywuzzy;1317185 wrote: Yes I thought the board needed a controversial topic. but is it controversial?


Not really, although a minority (curiously, normally female) get stirred up about it.

[Bill Sikes]

Betty Boop;1317247 wrote: I know some women that -snip- were just dismayed that post feeding they found themselves much reduced in size to pre pregnancy.


That's 'cos the things've been all bulged out and changed shape, not got smaller!

Eventually, I have been told, they all turn into a semblance of an empty Christmas stocking with a clementine in the bottom.

[Bill Sikes]

fuzzywuzzy;1317555 wrote: I wonder if men are extremely repulsed by something that essentially shows a woman in her own happy healthy domain?


How strange to wonder so. I don't, for instance, wonder whether women are "extremely repulsed" by blokes tinkering with their cars, or betting on whippet-racing!

[YZGI]

Sure I tasted my wifes milk while she was breastfeeding. I didn't like it, I don't like warm milk though either. I might try it again but She will have to cool her teats first.

[Odie]

YZGI;1317671 wrote: Sure I tasted my wifes milk while she was breastfeeding. I didn't like it, I don't like warm milk though either. I might try it again but She will have to cool her teats first.


she'll have to put them in the fridge.:yh_rotfl