Why are Men Buying Cambodian Breast Milk Sold Online ?

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Why are Men Buying Cambodian Breast Milk Sold Online ?

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It appears that there is a market for this.

Breast milk is not for men
Fetishists and bodybuilders have created a booming black market
BY Julie Bindel
January 21, 2022
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The “pumping room” at Ambrosia Labs in Cambodia is an airless and dystopian space. I see 20 or so women packed in, being “milked”. Their tops are off and they all have tubes attached to both nipples; their breast milk can be seen flowing through tubes into containers. They would do this for hours at a time, for six days a week. Above the noise of the pumps I could hear the cries of distressed babies and toddlers. They went hungry while the milk meant for them was extracted for export.

Once collected, the milk was transferred into plastic bags which were sealed, labelled and stored in a large freezer, ready to send to other mouths. For this precious liquid, the women were paid 50 cents an ounce, while those running the coercive operation were making a fortune.

Global demand for human breast milk has never been greater. Breast milk banks and peer-to-peer sharing have long existed, for mothers in need, but now it is increasingly being sold for profit. And not just to parents wishing to feed babies. There is a dark side to this trade, as there always is when human body parts and products are brokered.

I’ve seen those harms with my own eyes. As I discovered during that trip in 2017 to Cambodia, those women being milked like cattle were part of a coercive business model developed by pimps in Phnom Penh: these men would advertise pregnant women from their brothels to breast milk and pregnancy fetishists, and then sell their milk mail-order style online.

Lactation and pregnancy pornography is an upsettingly fast growing genre. Last year’s Channel 4 documentary, Breastfeeding My Boyfriend, shed some light on the phenomenon. Aside from hearing the stories of two couples that practice “erotic feeding,” while livestreaming on porn sites, viewers were also introduced to a young woman that goes by “Milky Mummy,” a mother of three infants, who made £30,000 selling lactating videos online.

As a result, when breast milk is for sale, it’s not just women who buy it. As Karleen Gribble, an expert in infant feeding tells me: “In wealthy countries, little of the milk that is sold is used to feed babies. Mostly, milk for infant consumption is given without direct payment. Those buying milk tend to be adult men who want it to assist with bodybuilding or for sexual reasons.”

Those poor, desperate women selling their milk for such a pittance in Cambodia had no idea that it was as likely to go to male fetishists and weightlifters as it was babies.
Article: https://unherd.com/2022/01/why-are-men- ... east-milk/
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Sounds like a crock of shit.
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Yeah, the source doesn't sound too... reliable.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Fri Jan 21, 2022 2:38 pm Yeah, the source doesn't sound too... reliable.
Yes, I just noticed it was Julie Fucking Bindel.
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Is It Healthy to Drink Breast Milk As an Adult?
by Lucas Smith

Tltr
Spoiler:
NO
Separating the Myths from Facts

We all know this goodness in breast milk. What most people don’t know is that human breast milk is now being traded online for adult consumption. Discussion forums are buzzing with the supposed health benefits of consuming breast milk as an adult.
The establishment of sites selling breast milk intended for mothers to donate their breast milk to fellow mothers. For most of us, drinking breast milk as a grown man or woman is accompanied by the ‘yack’ feeling. However, some of these sites now have a section for adults or men buying breast milk.

According to a report in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the author, Dr. Sarah Steele of the Queen Mary University of London, claims that there is no evidence linking human raw milk to health benefits in adults. If anything, she adds that there are potential health risks for taking breast milk as an adult. A mother’s milk is custom-made for her young baby. When you purchase milk online, you don’t know the health condition of the person you’re buying it from. Human body fluids such as urine, saliva, and milk carry diseases such as HIV, STIs, hepatitis among other deadly infectious diseases.

Bodybuilders and athletes believe that breast milk is the magic recipe to enhance their performance. Jill Sheriff, an Associate Professor and an expert in nutritional biochemistry at Curtin University, says that adults taking breast milk do no gain any nutritional benefits that cannot be obtained from other readily available food sources.
Full article: https://www.voxnature.com/is-it-healthy ... -an-adult/
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It´s nice in Coffee.
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Darren-Lee-Fox wrote: Tue Jan 25, 2022 2:23 am It´s nice in Coffee.
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