September 03, 2004

Milkmen Fathers Who Breastfeed. Anecdotal evidence is of no scientific worth, but let's hear monkey anecdotes about this fascinating though weird phenomenon anyway.
  • Bah, what a bunch of girlie-men. P.S., Male lactation according to Wikipedia.
  • There's one thing that bothers me about this, and it's not the male lactation thing, it's this:
    After he discovered that his body had indeed been responsive to his thoughts, he suggested to himself that the lactation would stop, and within a week his breast returned to normal...We didn't give it much thought after that
    I'm sorry? Your husband grew a breast using only the power of his mind and you didn't think much about it? That is truly amazing.
  • Anything which starts with the words "I became interested in male lactation when..." is going to be very, very strange.
  • Who here would like to suckle from my teat?
  • You're not letting the 'international sex god' thing go to your head a bit, are you, quidnunc?
  • if my sweetie tried to breastfeed ANYTHING, it would suffocate in his chest hair. heh.
  • Pleggers, I have a lot of milk to give, that's all. Plus, if I jump up and down a lot, I could probably do you a mean cappuccino.
  • Straight Dope declares "pantload" on the idea of male lactation. Which begs the inevitable question: What *is* in that cappucino, anyway??
  • Cecil declared "pantload" on male suckling, not male lactation. In other news, chocolate breast milk (5th one down).
  • dirigibleman is right, I stand corrected. Thanks d-man.
  • No way am I shaving my nipples. It'd give the kid beard burn, anyway.
  • I tried getting my husband to share in the nummies duty last year when I read this, but he said "no way in hell". Hmph. What, like growing a boob or two would ruin his figure?
  • Damn. That just has to tickle.
  • When we were preparing for the birth of our first child, the midwife looked from my wife (who is, to be polite, well-endowed) to me (I have a prominent chest) and said "If we could get you both to contribute some milk, this baby'd grow up to be a superhero." We were talking about this the other day as a result of seeing the Family Guy episode in which Stewie suckles at Peter's breast -- my wife and I just looked at one another and laughed. Since I'm also one of the hairy elite, the poor kid who nurses on me had best like the taste of fur.