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Men too can produce milk.
well yeah but you have to have a baby first.
I have nipples, Greg
Can you milk me?
I love you
I'm squeezing like hell and it isn't working.
Why is that disgusting?
Because “Father’s Milk” hits different.
No way ! how do I do that ??
Sometimes regular stimulation is enough. I saw one case where a man took on an orphaned infant where there wasn't even any animal milk available to hack together formula, and the starving infant attempting to get milk out of his nipple every hour for multiple days was enough to get the one breast to start making milk, and the infant lived thanks to it.
The need for suckling to stimulate milk production is a catch-22 for women who don't make enough milk. They have to supplement with formula to prevent "failure to thrive", but the infant spending some of its sucking time on a bottle instead of a breast reduces their supply even more, so then they have to feed even more formula... There are devices that run a tube to the nipple so the infant can get formula from the tube while at the same time stimulating breast milk production, and they work, but look like a huge pain.
Usually with hormone therapy
okk lets gooooooo
Take six mg estradiol enanthate injections weekly for two years. Follow up with domperidone-based lactation induction. Supplementing a testosterone blocker would also be useful.
Warning, this is essentially going on the full hormone therapy trans women go on. You can induce lactation, but it requires being hormonally female for an extended period of time. Look up the effects of mtf hormone therapy, as you would be getting all of them. Also the breast growth is permanent. You have been warned.
I am not genuinely contemplating doing the hormone therapy, the above comment was in jest. However that is very cool to learn about. I had no idea breast development was a one-way road. These are questions I never thought to ask. Thanks for sharing
We know, but we call it milk as a joke. It's not actually milk.