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[edit] Adult Breastfeeding

I first heard of Roman Charity by following a link on the Society of Nursing Couples files page. A lot of information is available on this subject, both fact and fiction. There is a segment of the Adult Nursing Community who believe Adult Breastfeeding dates back to the early development of the human species, and that maintaining a lactation response within an Adult Nursing Relationship is not as difficult as believed.

The theory is that primitive men sought lactating women for supplemental nourishment during seasonal or winter famine; and that women maintained their milk supply for most of their adult lives. Women store fat easier than men, women have slower metabolisms than men, and women can initiate lactation independent of pregnancy or childbirth. This theory embraces the metabolic differences between men and women and gives a lone male hunter a practical survival reason for keeping and protecting a woman in the wilderness. It ties details of lactation, bonding, fertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth and infant mortality into the overall survival equation. It promotes the notion that Adult Breastfeeding is a survival tool unique to our species and is more about survival instincts and bonding than it is about sexual gratification or fetish. It also explains why human females have enlarged breasts, why men are attracted to female breasts, why lactation promotes infertility, why women often have too much milk after childbirth, and why the emotions generated within Adult Nursing Relationships are so powerful. See Milk Fetishism to learn more. Mlklvr 20:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)