How to turn breast milk into a cash cow.

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Apologies for the shambolic links: at least one seems to work. It's a review by Hannah Barnes of a book about the trade in female reproductive elements.

I heard her being interviewed about this on Times Radio. They went straight in with the men ordering it for sexual purposes which I was pleasantly surprised by. I mean in terms of them not shying away from it or being coy about it, to be clear!

Ye gods & little fishes. Ordered the book, more things I'll doubtless wish I hadn't read but evil blooms in dark & silence.

Janice Turner's review in the Times
"You can use every part of a pig, goes the saying, except for the squeal. The female body is even richer in strippable assets: orifices to be hired; eggs mined from ovaries then implanted into rentable wombs; plus, in violent porn there’s high demand for squeals."

https://www.thetimes.com/article/0000eb5e-51a5-4145-a004-16cb4457bc09?shareToken=4a2c53efddedf30d0f31e8973e5b6615

I really don't like this brave new world of monetising the female body even further. These medical procedures/policies always seem to be designed to benefit a certain class of woman who has maximal choice-making power in her life and they never consider the worst case scenario for women with few economic options or with no power over their own lives or bodies.

It’s so desperately sad because there is a genuine medical need. When I was breastfeeding I donated milk to another mother whose son had a medical condition that the breast milk alleviated. And, as the article says, pre-term babies need breast milk that their mothers may not be able to provide. I would put these men way behind those children in the queue.