Well, I suppose breast milk has myriad uses…

Here is the link, didn’t come thru with the above post.

I think humans’ views toward sex and breastfeeding are complicated. In some cultures there are taboos on sexual intercourse right after childbirth because it is believed that semen will poison the milk. Some women in addition might no longer view their breasts as sexual organs when they are breastfeeding because lactation can cause women’s breasts to engorge and be too uncomfortable to get much pleasures out of. But it really depends on the woman, her culture, and so on.

Here is a little tip: if your breasts feel painfully engorged, sometimes a little squeeze of the nipples (done by the woman herself or her husband) can alleviate the pain by expressing even a small amount of milk.

Thank you again for your comment.

I suppose I’ll have to take an “agnostic” approach to the question of whether the reference to the woman’s breast satisfying her husband was in relation to breast milk.

I will say however that some Western men may take a “hands-off” position on a woman’s breast when she is nursing a baby. Case in point: my husband (he actually is from Nicaragua, which I do consider a Western country). He hasn’t touched my breasts since I gave birth, though in reality even before he wasn’t fixated on breasts as some men are. It may be because he doesn’t want to get milk on his hands. Occasionally a woman will leak breast milk while she is having sex (know this first-hand), and some men don’t like that.

This is kind of going a bit off-topic, but the ironic thing is that the human female breast is different from that of other female mammals in that we are the only species in which the breast enlarges even when we are not lactating. In fact, male chimpanzees (our closest relative in the animal kingdom) are not excited by large breasts on a female chimp because it means she is nursing an infant and thus is not fertile at the moment. So I think human females are the only species where the breast is sexual rather than just available for nutrition.

There is a good book called Woman: An Intimate Geography by New York Times science writer Natalie Angier, and it has a chapter on breasts and another on breast milk. You might want to buy it or check it out at the library because it is quite interesting.