Anon Allsop's White Squaw has once more intrigued me about the subject of male lactation. (One or two readers may even recall that I once wrote a rather zany and futuristic story Studs make good cash cows which also dwelt on this subject.)

It appears there is no physical reason why males cannot produce milk from our breasts. There are many recorded events throughout history of them doing so, the most notable at the end of WWII, after starving prisoners were released from Nazi concentration camps and put on a normal diet. The resulting hormone imbalance caused many of them to lactate.

Lactation is stimulated by the hormone prolactin. Women normally have far more of this than men. Following childbirth, they have a rush of it which causes them to produce milk for their baby. When men spontaneously lactate, this is often a sign that their bodies are not working correctly. This hormone cannot be readily purchased.

However, many sources claim that males can stimulate lactation by manipulating the breasts and nipples, in the same way as a baby when trying to draw milk. Rather using a real baby, a breast pump is much more effective and rather less dramatic. Good breast pumps have a stimulation phase followed by a pumping phase. Clearly, it is the stimulation phase which is most effective in starting milk production. It is claimed that once milk starts to flow from the male breast, the breast rapidly increases in size and milk becomes much more abundant.

Clearly, if this is true, it is probably the most feminine thing a genetic male can do without medical intervention. It also increases breast size without the use of surgery and silicone. I wonder whether any visitors to this site have experience of male lactation, either personal or of their friends.