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I put my breast milk up for sale - and found the majority of interested buyers were men

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IwantToRetire · 10/03/2026 19:30

... when Scott listed her own milk for sale, she was even more surprised to discover that a majority of the men buying it were doing so because it turns them on: either the breast milk itself, or the bodies of breastfeeding mothers. And there were also sellers leaning into this – the listings on OnlyTheBreast.com with pictures of faces and cleavage, and descriptions emphasising sellers’ (young) age, received far more interest she says.

Until 2022, there were categories called “Willing to Sell to Men” among sellers and “Men seeking breast milk” among buyers, though after Scott contacted the site these categories disappeared. Male buyers still flourish but with willingness to sell to men now being folded more subtly into listings.

Scott’s own listing was carefully clinical, and as asexual as she could make it. And yet, she writes, “of the many requests I received within hours of posting the ad, all but one were from men, and most were overtly sexual.” She was asked to wet nurse, or provide videos of her hand expressing milk. Others requested the same but with an electric pump. There were men who were explicit about their erotic fixation, and others who pretended it was for body building, before admitting it was also a turn on. ...

Full article https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sold-breast-milk-found-adults-drinking-wellness-4264463

I put my breast milk up for sale - and met adults drinking it for ‘wellness’

Journalist Alev Scott investigates the ethically murky - but perfectly legal - breastmilk market in her new book, 'Cash Cow'

https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sold-breast-milk-found-adults-drinking-wellness-4264463

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Everlil · 10/03/2026 19:50

IwantToRetire · 10/03/2026 19:44

I think what is so suprising is how many women, in at a time when there is mass media, social media, terrible news stories about men, are apparently genuinely unaware of male behaviour.

Its almost like the emporers news clothes, or rather the reverse.

However many times there are stories about men's behaviour and degrading attitudes towards women, some women continue to believe they are the exception.

I don’t agree at all. It sounds like fake naivety, trying to sell a story.

Next week it will be, ‘I tried to sell some well used shoes to other fellow nurses on a generic website, but instead I got bombarded with messages from people with a foot fetish’!!

HobnobsChoice · 10/03/2026 19:49

Interesting headline by the subeditor. Even putting wellness in inverted commas doesn't actually explain that most of the buyers are men with fetishes.

PeonyPatch · 10/03/2026 19:46

Okay, that’s enough internet for today.

Everlil · 10/03/2026 19:45

How is this a shock? There are all sorts of fetishes, and this is a pretty well established one. Women don’t go onto these sites to get milk for their babies, I’ve no idea why the writer would think they did? I’m not really why this is a story?!

IwantToRetire · 10/03/2026 19:44

HippityHoppityHay · 10/03/2026 19:40

Of course that's going to attract all the vile men with a woman fetish.
Only a hermit could be surprised.

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I think what is so suprising is how many women, in at a time when there is mass media, social media, terrible news stories about men, are apparently genuinely unaware of male behaviour.

Its almost like the emporers news clothes, or rather the reverse.

However many times there are stories about men's behaviour and degrading attitudes towards women, some women continue to believe they are the exception.

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IwantToRetire · 10/03/2026 19:41

Forgot to add archive link https://archive.is/A6imh

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HippityHoppityHay · 10/03/2026 19:40

IwantToRetire · 10/03/2026 19:30

... when Scott listed her own milk for sale, she was even more surprised to discover that a majority of the men buying it were doing so because it turns them on: either the breast milk itself, or the bodies of breastfeeding mothers. And there were also sellers leaning into this – the listings on OnlyTheBreast.com with pictures of faces and cleavage, and descriptions emphasising sellers’ (young) age, received far more interest she says.

Until 2022, there were categories called “Willing to Sell to Men” among sellers and “Men seeking breast milk” among buyers, though after Scott contacted the site these categories disappeared. Male buyers still flourish but with willingness to sell to men now being folded more subtly into listings.

Scott’s own listing was carefully clinical, and as asexual as she could make it. And yet, she writes, “of the many requests I received within hours of posting the ad, all but one were from men, and most were overtly sexual.” She was asked to wet nurse, or provide videos of her hand expressing milk. Others requested the same but with an electric pump. There were men who were explicit about their erotic fixation, and others who pretended it was for body building, before admitting it was also a turn on. ...

Full article https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/sold-breast-milk-found-adults-drinking-wellness-4264463

Of course that's going to attract all the vile men with a woman fetish.
Only a hermit could be surprised.

StormyPotatoes · 10/03/2026 19:38

Why would this even be a surprise? Women who have birthed a baby and actually want their baby to thrive aren’t buying some other women’s milk off a sketchy site to feed their baby, particular when a) donors exist and b) failing that, formula that is regulated exists.

It’s been a sitcom trope with men drinking their wives milk ‘by mistake’ for so long it’s practically normalised. For the fetishists, its same old - normalise first and then act out fetish in plain site.

Lou7171 · 10/03/2026 19:37

Eww.

Delphinium20 · 10/03/2026 19:37

I donated breast milk and did it through a type of community org run by a group of mothers. This was pre-smart phones and I didn't get any men, but probably because it was mostly word of mouth or midwives sharing the org's phone number. I can only imagine what it's like now.

Men's fetishes are vile.

BewleyBear · 10/03/2026 19:36

Honestly I’m not surprised at all about the men.