China’s rich developing taste for human breast milk

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Human breast milk is the latest delicacy amongst China’s wealthy, with a growing number of companies offering wet nurses for adults.

Xinxinyu, a domestic staff agency in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, allows adult clients to drink directly through breastfeeding or via a breast pump ‘if they feel embarrassed’.

Wet nurses for adults are paid four times the Chinese average at around 16,000 yuan (£1,700) a month and those who are ‘healthy and good looking’ could earn even more, company owner Lin Jun told the Southern Metropolis Daily.

Beliefs are held in some part of the country that human breast milk is the easiest and most digestible form of nutrition for those who are ill.

However, this bizarre new trend has sparked outrage and disgust amongst web users with many condemning the practice as unethical.

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http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/04/chinas-rich-developing-taste-for-human-breast-milk-3868655/

[MineralMan]

1. Now, that's some weird stuff!

Uff da!

[bunnies]

2. To each his own.

Most people are perfectly fine drinking the "breast milk" of other species of animals, so why should anyone care if they want to drink the milk of their own?

[L0oniX]

26. Well right now its for the 1%.

[bunnies]

39. hmmm.

Maybe someone should open a chain of tittie bars for the working peeps. No reason everyone shouldnt have access to nannies nectar. Hooter shooter anyone?

[L0oniX]

47. "tittie bars" Oh no yew dint go there

[bunnies]

53. Well. There was that one time...

[Cleita]

3. Oh, great. Now they are going to keep women in a herd to milk them like cows?

And, I don't even want to speculate on this wet nurse thing, particularly the good looking ones who could earn more.

[Liberal Veteran]

7. They are not wet nurses. We now call them "Personal Lactation Engineers" -nt

[L0oniX]

28. It's a jobs thing. Out source that!

[jwirr]

59. That was the first thing I thought. Talk about war on women. It is apparently world wide.

[onehandle]

4. Careful. If anyone criticizes Chinese 'culture,' you will be labeled 'intolerant.' nt

[L0oniX]

6. So I guess eating cat is off the table now?

[bunnies]

10. Well, duh.

You eat cat off a stick, not a table, silly.

[L0oniX]

12. What's next ...bunnies?

[bunnies]

16. gasp!

Blasphemer!
#bunny%20hug

[HappyMe]

14. LOL!

The civilized way to eat 'em. You have to marinate them overnight, otherwise they taste like feet.

[bunnies]

17. And not only that...

you gotta wash em real well. I just hate those little bits of litter. Gross.

[HappyMe]

18. Nothing worse than

litter with the cat satay.

[bunnies]

21. lol!

I am literally eating a Tai dish with peanut sauce right now. I nearly just choked to death. omg.

[HappyMe]

22. Yum, that sounds good.

Sorry about the choking.

[bunnies]

24. at least it wasnt actual satay.

I might have died.

[whathehell]

80. True dat. n/t

[L0oniX]

5. Just think of all the brands you could have. Mom's Best, Grannies Finest, Boobsy Twins, Double Teet

Best Breast's, Double D Fortified, ect. Then there's specialities like milk of the stars with ads like "Fresh from the Pamela Anderson farm" ...oh the humanity.

[NaturalHigh]

15. Okay...you get the prize for this thread.

[KittyWampus]

31. some of those are pretty funny.

[L0oniX]

44. I'm milking this for all I can get.

[AC_Mem]

84. LOL!

is that the breast you can do?

[HappyMe]

8. No thank you.

[winter is coming]

9. I predict an explosion of Olive Gardens in China. n/t

[HiPointDem]

11. bullshit.

[penultimate]

92. Bullshit that they're doing it, or bullshit as in this story is bullshit?

[NaturalHigh]

13. Yikes!

To each their own, but this just kind of gives me the shivers.

[mick063]

19. A great way to avoid Melamine.

n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

20. I like my colustrum with a twist . . . . .

Jesus! Even Geishas don't engage in shit like this.

[bunnies]

23. a true bahama mama, if you will.

mmmmm

[HappyMe]

35. Now you're talking!

Booze over boob squeezin's any day.

[bunnies]

43. I'll drink to that!

Booze over boob squeezin's!

[HappyMe]

45. Cheers!

[L0oniX]

48. Lemme guess ...is that pic from a tittie bar?

[bunnies]

51. lol!

I plead the 5th.

[elehhhhna]

25. aren't asian people generally very lactos intoerant?

iirc they (generally) can't easily digest cow/goat milk.

[Cleita]

29. For cows milk and other species. Probably they can handle human milk okay. n/t

[siligut]

32. My friend, who is Chinese chooses to forego dairy

And now that you mention it, when I was in China none of the local cuisine included dairy products.

[siligut]

27. I have been told by two women that their husbands enjoyed suckling

This was in the USA, I saw it as a fetish. Now I wish I had asked more about it, but at the time all I wanted to do was be polite. One woman had five children, but I figured it was just because she was Mormon, now I wonder if hubby's desire for breast milk played into it.

In general, Chinese women are not well endowed, maybe the wealthy are importing foreign lactaters. The article doesn't say but I would guess the women are using exogenous prolactin and oxytocin to induce lactation.

[L0oniX]

30. "importing foreign lactaters" Well if the jobs are leaving the US you have to go where the jobs are.

[KittyWampus]

34. this entire thread/topic seems kind of surreal.

[siligut]

40. Headhunters for Xinxinyu probably know how to avoid a slap in the face

But I sure wouldn't want the job

[Arugula Latte]

36. I hear that these rich people really exploit these foreign lactaters. In fact, you could say

that they are milking them.

*rimshot*

[L0oniX]

41. (*) (*)

[RedCappedBandit]

86. omg.. LOL

[vanlassie]

50. One does not have to be "well endowed" to produce copious milk for years....

[siligut]

52. The article said that the well endowed women were paid more

Meaning they were preferable. I don't have a horse in this race

[vanlassie]

69. I do! Well endowment is for the beholder. I'm a lactation consultant. Just doing my daily job of

teaching what should have been taught in school. 😀😀

[Nay]

79. Well, of course you don't! But that's not why Chinese 1%ers are hiring "lactators."

Hint: It's not for their health. Unless you count sexual titillation as a health benefit.

[vanlassie]

91. Of course. I got that. BUT I don't want any misunderstandings!!

[enlightenment]

78. You don't have to be well endowed to produce

milk. Just have sufficient milk glands. Larger than average human breasts are mostly fatty tissue, not glands.

Still, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a premium for foreign lactaters.

[raccoon]

33. Betcha you could fill in the name of any country there. nt

[AngryAmish]

37. OUr rich also

?w=630

[cbdo2007]

38. It's not that big of a deal and tastes pretty good.

Sure, I wouldn't want to drink it from someone who wasn't my wife and that I didn't know but there's really nothing gross about drinking breast milk.

[Arugula Latte]

42. I don't think I'll ever forget this thread. Thanks for the mammaries.

[treestar]

46. That bugs me

Can't explain why, but it would seem disgusting even if they pumped it and bottled it. It's for infants.

[vanlassie]

49. Bingo. It's for infants. Not enough get it.

[bunnies]

54. Whats cows milk for? nt

[treestar]

56. Little cows

I guess it's like the way we eat their meat, too, but would not eat human meat without being disgusted. Must be a thing about your own species not being food. Except for nursing.

[bunnies]

64. I think its embedded in our culture.

Personally, the thought of drinking any sort of animals milk disgusts me. I have a hard time even watching someone else drink it without gagging. Just the smell of it... While on the flip side, the milk of humans is (at least) from our species. Though you wouldnt catch me standing in line to drink that stuff either. All milk produced by animals is intended for nursing, afaik. Its strange, the things that are socially acceptable vs the things that aren't.

Ill spare you my thoughts on the meat issue. My POV is not a very popular one. Suffice it to say that I would not eat a human. But I'd also not eat a cow.

[Buns_of_Fire]

55. It's bound to be healthier for them than the food they export. nt

[L0oniX]

71. ^^^this^^^

[olddots]

57. My mom didn't breast feed ...........

it hurt when she boiled her nipples -----sorry had to do that joke but this thread forced me .

[Egalitarian Thug]

58. Consuming the milk of an entirely different species is one of the biggest industries

in the U.S., and that's fine. Drinking the milk of our own species is disgusting/erotic/strange.

What an interesting animal we are.

[MadrasT]

68. I know, right?

I am curious to know -- at what age does it become disgusting/erotic/strange to drink the milk of our own species? Two? Three? Five? Ten? Twenty seven?

Tons of people drink FLUID FROM A COW, no probs, and yet some of the same people are grossed out by this???

[Egalitarian Thug]

89. Being raised without the rulebook makes watching the rest of us interesting and

frequently bizarre.

[malokvale77]

60. Is it just the men...

Do wealthy women partake also?

[HappyMe]

61. I would imagine so.

Why wouldn't they?

[malokvale77]

65. I,m trying to conjure up the image of a grown...

woman breast feeding. Maybe the pumped milk?

[HappyMe]

66. Probably so.

I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of women and men partaking of the pumped variety, and straight from the source too.

Not something I'm remotely interested in.

[FreeState]

62. Because drinking cow or goat breast milk makes so much more sense!

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/sarcasm

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

83. Then there's this:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/221499/strange-but-true/the-woman-who-breastfeeds-her-cat.html/

Eek. Also, ouch.

[UnseenUndergrad]

63. What the...

I'm sorry, and forgive me for saying this, but while fetish play between mates while pregnant or nursing is one thing... This just sounds like the sort of weird shit that starts when the elites become decadent and debauched, the poor poorer, the Mandate of Heaven snaps and the peasants and barbarians swoop in to crush thrones beneath sandaled feet.

[malokvale77]

67. I figure if...

you served up dog shit at a high enough price, the wealthy would decide it was a delicacy and consume it.

[UnseenUndergrad]

70. So the Caviar Principle?

I always thought so. The nouveau riche eats this crap to fit in... While the old money eats whatever it wants.

[arcane1]

74. Hell, they eat hamburgers with freakin' GOLD on them!

http://gothamist.com/2008/05/20/175_hamburger_o.php

[malokvale77]

75. It reminds me of that scene in the movie with Tom Hanks.

There was another one with Matthew Broderick, where the uber rich had a secret dining club with endangered species on the menu. Komodo Dragon. Yum yum.

[Buns_of_Fire]

73. I sense a buck to be made here! :)

I can see a higher price to be extracted from "Fleur de Pomeranian" than "Mais de St. Bernard" since it stands to reason that the raw materials are scarcer.

My cousin, killjoy that she is, once forbade me from selling my "Bag O' Rocks" at her flea market stall. And to think I could have made us BOTH millionaires!

[malokvale77]

76. Of course...

it's all in the presentation. Or in the case of the rocks, the packaging.

[JackN415]

77. As much as I admire China contribution to human culture and civilization, I must say China is also..

at the top of the art of human decadence. This human breast milk fetish is nothing compared with China's preference for food including live monkey brain, live fried fish and others practice such as binding foot...

[UnseenUndergrad]

90. I think Du Fu said it best...

as a poet living in the Tang Dynasty.

"Crimson mansions reek of wine and meat while on the road lie frozen bones."

[dgibby]

81. Now we know why repukes are hell bent on outlawing birth control.

No doubt they already have a monopoly on the import of this Chinese delicacy. Gives new meaning to the term "Made in China". Wonder if this "product" will come in it's original packaging?

[whathehell]

82. Ewwww...

[Zoeisright]

85. Ewww.

Is it pasteurized? Breast milk can contain pathogens, and if the woman has any illnesses, watch out.

[RedCappedBandit]

87. Frankly, this makes more sense than cow's milk

Yeah it's kinda weird initially. Put aside your cultural biases for a minute though.. and it just doesn't seem that weird when you consider what else we all eat/consume.

[BainsBane]

88. They do that here, but they call it a sexual fetish.