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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,soc.men
Subject: Re: Male Breast-Feeding (was: something entirely different)
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Date: 2 Feb 88 01:55:01 GMT
References: <1589@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <19546@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <2682@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <2682@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> sethg@athena.mit.edu (Seth Gordon) writes:
=I would like to respond to bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein),
=who in <19546@bu-cs.BU.EDU> [over in talk.politics.misc] writes:
=+I've heard that men of some African tribes breast feed ...
=
=I think my high school biology teacher mentioned that prolactin, a
=hormone that induces milk production, actually did cause lactation in
=male guinea pigs.

It also causes lactation in male humans, as the La Leche League (a pro-
breast-feeding organization) will be happy to tell you.  I've also heard
claims that human male breasts can be stimulated to produce milk through
massage, but I find that one a bit unlikely.

And you thought they were just there to break up the monotony of the male
chest ...

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