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From: dyer@arktouros.MIT.EDU (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: male breastfeeding
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Date: 25 Feb 88 03:11:59 GMT
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>The question was, is it possible for men to breast feed?  The answer seems
>to be yes.  Why continue the debate?

Huh?  On the contrary, I have seen nothing which would convince anyone
that "the answer seems to be yes."  A report from 1799 is rather meagre
and suspect evidence.  Outside of a hormonal imbalance, either endogenous or
due to exogenous administration of estrogens or estrogen-like substances,
I'm not convinced that breast feeding in men is physiologically possible.

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