# Ummm... breast milk **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 22, 2000, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049 "2000-01-22T00:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ProudAmerican](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@ProudAmerican](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProudAmerican)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/41 "2000-01-24T13:15:00Z")
First, allow me to express my annoyance with a choice of terms. _Breast milk_ is a redundancy. Milk, be it from cows, humans, goats, monkeys, or rats, all comes from breasts of some kind. “Breast milk” is like saying “tree apples.” The human milk I tasted was kind of watery, like skim milk. Not bad, but I wouldn’t go out and buy a carton. On the subject of other bodily secretions: Yes, food definitely affects flavor. I had a girlfriend who ate lots of garlic, and her flavor was strong. Fortunately, I _love_ garlic! ---
**Author:** ![Lemmon2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lemmon2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmon2000)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/42 "2000-01-24T16:23:00Z")
Coldfire, cover your keyboard! I don’t want to be responsible for another one. When I was nursing every time I had an orgasm my milk would let down. This was not something I used in sexual play, nor did my husband. But I can imagine that some men might find it exciting and like it. If it is there and pouring out like mine did then I can bet you there is a man out there willing to drink it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/43 "2000-01-24T16:24:00Z")
Well, I don’t know if it’s common to do it intentionally, but I’ll bet everyone who has nursed a baby or whose wife has nursed a baby has tasted some inadvertently. Pretty sweet stuff, incidentally. * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![frolix8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@frolix8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frolix8)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/44 "2000-01-24T20:13:00Z")
Loudon Wainwright III was on Austin City Limits a few weeks ago and did a song about human milk. It was funny, but when they panned into the audience it was obvious some of the families attending were uneasy. I knew a vegan woman who wouldn’t breast feed her child, she used soy milk instead. Is that normal for vegan folk? What’s the reasoning behind that? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/45 "2000-01-24T20:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by frolix8: > **Loudon Wainwright III was on Austin City Limits a few weeks ago and did a song about human milk. It was funny, but when they panned into the audience it was obvious some of the families attending were uneasy.** What kind of people would yake their kids to a Louden Wainwright show? He’s well known to be quite racey and crude. Very, very funny, but definately not kid material. I’ve tasted breast milk when each of my daughters were born. I really like the sweetness of it. Once you get over the initial “weirdness” of what you’re doing, it’s quite enjoyable and sensual. I don’t know if I’d go so far as to bottle it and put it on my ceral, but it is quite good “on tap”. ---
**Author:** ![boli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@boli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boli)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/46 "2000-01-24T21:24:00Z")
The topic of the morning radio show I listen to a few weeks ago was Things You Haven’t Admitted to Anyone. Of course, this opened the floodgates for people that felt the need to share these personal things. One woman called in and said that after she breast-feeds her infant, she nurses herself. Her breasts are big enough that she can do it, and she enjoys the milk. I thought this was disgusting beyond words, but I’ve never had a child. So, I asked my best friend (who is on baby #3) if she thought it was as gross as I did. She agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/47 "2000-01-24T21:45:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Lemmon2000: > **Coldfire, cover your keyboard! I don’t want to be responsible for another one. When I was nursing every time I had an orgasm my milk would let down. This was not something I used in sexual play, nor did my husband. But I can imagine that some men might find it exciting and like it. If it is there and pouring out like mine did then I can bet you there is a man out there willing to drink it.** Well, drinking it _in the name of science and general interest_ so to speak is fine with me. I was referring to the 10 feet squirting contests that some posters described… * * * Coldfire * * * “You know how complex women are” - Neil Peart, Rush (1993) ---
**Author:** ![frolix8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@frolix8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frolix8)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049/48 "2000-01-25T00:28:00Z")
I happened to run across this, it seemed appropriate: [http://www.howstuffworks.com/question297.htm](http://www.howstuffworks.com/question297.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ummm-breast-milk/13049.md?page=2)