Free Republic

For many men fatherhood is not quite the same unless they have shared the experience as far as possible. A survey has found that a third of modern fathers admit to tasting their wife’s or girlfriend’s breast milk. The researchers discovered that it is fairly common for fathers to drink breast milk several times, especially with subsequent children — even though they did not particularly like the taste. The fathers surveyed said the milk-tasting was part of an emotional urge to immerse themselves in the process of infant rearing — far removed from the “bitty, bitty” sketch in the BBC’s...