Jane’s* husband likes breast milk. “He says he likes the taste of it, and that it helps him in terms of his health. He feels good afterwards,” said the 20-year-old from Uganda, who has a six-month-old baby.

Jane said her husband started asking for her milk the night she came home from the hospital after giving birth. “He said it was to help me with the milk flow. I felt it was OK.”

Men drinking their partners’ breast milk is not uncommon in some areas of Uganda, and in parts of Tanzania and Kenya. It is now being linked to gender violence and coercive behaviour and there are concerns over the impact on babies’ nutrition. Little was known about the practice until Uganda’s minister of state for health, Sarah Opendi, broke the silence in parliament in 2018 and warned against “a growing culture of men demanding to suckle, which was becoming a problem for some breastfeeding mothers and their babies”.

The reasons for the phenomenon, and its consequences, are now the subject of what is believed to be the first preliminary study into the practice, by Kyambogo University in Kampala and Britain’s University of Kent, supported by the Global Challenges Research Fund.

“It was very much an exploratory mission. We didn’t know if we would find anybody willing to talk to us who admitted to doing it. We didn’t even really know if it was real or not,” said Dr Rowena Merritt, a British behavioural scientist who specialises in public health, and a lead researcher on the project.

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Nonsense

Its always east Africa.

Real men should be sucking down below and not boobi.

Please what is really happening in all theses countries like Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and even Nigeria... seems the 'aaaa' sound in the countries names is a big indicator for been weird

Instead using their brain for something productive but no

Men drinking their partners’ breast milk is not uncommon in some areas of Uganda, and in parts of Tanzania and Kenya. It is now being linked to gender violence and coercive behaviour and there are concerns over the impact on babies’ nutrition. Little was known about the practice until Uganda’s minister of state for health, Sarah Opendi, broke the silence in parliament in 2018 and warned against “a growing culture of men demanding to suckle, which was becoming a problem for some breastfeeding mothers and their babies”.

I’m confused.
Why fight when they can share?

The man should be ready to provide HEAVILY though. Can’t be breastfeeding a grown man and still go to work to get money for him.

Born2Breed:
Its always east Africa.

Real men should be sucking down below and not boobi.

And why not both?

Hehehe the head of the house for mouth, infant in the bedroom shior

cococandy:

I’m confused.
Why fight when they can share?

The man should be ready to provide HEAVILY though. Can’t be breastfeeding a grown man and still go to work to get money for him.

Breastfeeding a grown man with milk? is that your fetish?

travelland:


Breastfeeding a grown man with milk? is that your fetish?

I have many fetishes.
Why? are you interested?

cococandy:


I have many fetishes.
Why? are you interested?

Just wondering, have you given him milk that way before though?

travelland:


Just wondering, have you given him milk that way before though?

See question

cococandy:


See question

hehehe are u afraid to answer the question, ans Na, Shay you support the matter.

Well as for me it looks weird tho, although I haven't tasted any before rather go for milk in the market and leave that for babies ...at least I had mine wen I was a baby

chriskosherbal:
hehehe are u afraid to answer the question, ans Na, Shay you support the matter.

Well as for me it looks weird tho, although I haven't tasted any before rather go for milk in the market and leave that for babies ...at least I had mine wen I was a baby

Afraid of who? Just not interested in sharing.

As long as anything sexual is consensual between two adults, I’ve nothing against it. Doesn’t always mean I’m personally doing it.

cococandy:


Afraid of who? Just not interested in sharing.

As long as anything sexual is consensual between two adults, I’ve nothing against it. Doesn’t always mean I’m personally doing it.

Hmmmm, anything ? you'd be surprised darling, you'd be surprised

When I thought I'd heard the weirdest
The human creature never ceases to amaze me.