It was a prosthetic.
On a related note the baby in The Blue Lagoon kept trying to suck on Brooke Shields’s nipples & breastfeed for real. Shields was mortified, but the baby’s mother thought it was hilarous.
What are you saying here? “It’s totally unfair that little kids get to touch boobies but I don’t!”
Maybe that it would have been disallowed to have a 10 year old girl sucking on an adult male’s nipple? Or that an adult woman wouldn’t be allowed to suck on the breast of a 10-year-old child?
In which case, yes, I tend to agree that the reaction would have been different. But then so would what was being presented.
That scene really didn’t look like what actual breastfeeding looks like. The boys mouth wasn’t open enough. Babies/children don’t suck the nipple, they open wide and take in almost the whole areola. Also, when a child comes off the breast, the nipple is temporarily deformed into a different shape that not look like a cute perky nipple. The nipple/breast is more elongated and squashed - as it had been compressed between the child’s tongue and palate. Also, kids tend to “pull” as they come off the breast. There is a strong vacuum suction happening and kids don’t just release, they pull away and break off.
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Absolutely. That prosthetic was good only if your familiarity with breasts is limited to 20 year olds having sexy thoughts or caught in a cold draft.
The details presented here about the mechanics of breastfeeding are useful and enlightening. Even though I am a father and my wife breastfed, I didn’t examine it that closely.
I wonder why. Perhaps because I wasn’t breastfed myself? Is it like the old Dangerfield joke, “My mother didn’t breast feed me because she just wanted us to be good friends?”
You learn the strangest and most marvelous things on this board.
Wow I am now so looking forward to breastfeeding now :eek:
Unsolicited mama advice: Don’t let them get in the habit of pulling away without breaking suction first. Boob hickeys aren’t actually as fun as they sound.
Stick your finger in the corner of their mouth to break the seal when they’re itty bitty, and they’ll (mostly) keep the habit of letting go before they let go when they’re doing it on their own. 
Hehe. Until they become aware of the surrounding world and want to face out, not in. Then they just turn their heads with the boob still attached. And that is why breastfeeding mums develop “long” boobs. 
From what I understand, in poorer countries (and some countries with a plain different culture) it’s common to breastfeed until 3-4 years old (for instance, Wikipedia says breastfeeding until 2-3 in India). I once heard a figure that the mean age to cease breastfeeding worldwide is between 4 and 5, but I can’t find a cite (aside from a few message boards) for that so it may be a erroneous.
Either way, you can breastfeed indefinitely given proper nutrition and stimulation (and even induce lactation sans pregnancy if you’re really dedicated). Okay, maybe not indefinitely, but for a very long time.
zombie or no
people are tittering about that factoid.
IIRC with the right hormone shots you can even enable men to breastfeed. It’s not unual for male newborns to lactate due to all the female hormones still in their systems.
You probably saw this Time magazine cover last year: http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2012/1101120521_600.jpg
