The South China Morning Post reported Monday that 15 people were arrested when the police broke up a prostitution ring in Beijing that gave adults the opportunity to drink human breast milk, which is regarded by some as having healing properties.

Lin Jun, owner of a domestic services Xinxinyu, a TaskRabbit-like company that also provides the service, told the International Business Times that clients "can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed."
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It's not all that strange for grown-ups to seek human milk. "I am aware of men with cancer drinking human milk as a form of treatment," Haldeman said. It seems that Western men will find any excuse to drink breast milk. At some point most new dads ask to try some, according to a recent Time article.

The Chinese Ministry of Public Security was far from blasé about adults suckling from women's teats though. They say they teamed up with law enforcement in Beijing, and several eastern provinces in a coordinated effort to stop people from drinking from boobs.

Beijing law enforcement had been aware of the rising tide of breast milk drinkers for a while; the Chinese reported on the trend last year. The Telegraph commented when the story came out that it was "capitalism gone mad."