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

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... 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

absolutely, and I’m sure the author of the article knew this when she decided to list her milk for sale online

I hadn’t heard of this fetish and it is vile. Why must men sexualise everything??? Something so special that women are able to do to keep their babies alive and healthy and it has to be reduced to something that makes men hard??

I'm just reading Cash Cow by Alev Scott. I have to say I'm not enjoying her flippant and casual manners to the commodification of women's bodies by men. She casually refers to her male gay friends who used a surrogate or an older female friend who 'needed' a surrogate.

The book is a tale of her middle class journey as a anxious mother. She was concerned during pregnancy she wouldn't produce enough milk so went mad with pumping when her baby was born and produced masses of excess hence her going down this rabbit hole, whilst pumping and bringing online (not sure where baby was!).

She isn't critical of female commodification so it makes me uncomfortable as she can't see the big picture and she doesn't consider the class differences. Quite disappointing and it wasn't a cheap book.

I've only read the chapter on Milk. I'll have to report back on Eggs and Placenta, strange order in the book, you would think it would start with Eggs and end with milk.

She also talks about women who are wet nurse for adults men. To me this is an extreme form of sex exploitation and the women are being prostituted, again poor women.

Pretty much anything that could possibly be a fetish is one. It’s not really surprising

Scott says, “the majority of customers for breast milk are men… I did not expect that” and I have to wonder, is she terminally stupid? Incurably naive? Has she never met a man, gone on the internet, or read the news? Of course it's bloody men. Most women who can't breastfeed will generally either go through milk donation services, or just use formula.

Breastmilk consumption is a well known fetish – just look at Homelander in The Boys for a very recent media representation. I have to think that she's pretending at surprise for the sake of her book, which really puts me off.

Honestly if I found out someone I knew was buying breast milk off the internet and feeding to their infant I’d phone social services. If weird festishy men want to drink it, well that’s at their own risk, but I can’t help thinking why can’t they just make do with a wank like a normal person.

This is why breast is best is a bad slogan. It should be fed is best. Buying milk from randos off the internet is more risky than give your baby formula in my opinion.

"Fed is best" only makes sense as the opposite of "starved is best". It says nothing about what the baby is fed. If you want to be pedantic about it, "Mother's breast is best" would work.

(Sorry, I haven't read the comments or even much beyond the title. I just have to say:)

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN? ????????????????????????

Yes! When you put it like that it doesn't make sense. I didn't articulate what I was trying to say very well.

I know this is an older thread but it's a question worth asking..

I think it's to do with the fact that men on average have higher sex drives and are more visually sexually stimulated, so the visual element has more potential to go wrong and become obsessive than with women.