From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Saturday.
I'm Manveen Rana.
Four months after giving birth to my first child, I had discovered that I had a oversupply of milk.
It's 11:00 p.m. one night in the height of lockdown in 2021.
And the journalist and author, Alev Scott, is sitting in her study, laptop open.
I didn't intend to sell my milk, but I wanted to know who was going to approach me
and I was expecting it to be perhaps other mothers with a low milk supply or adoptive parents, gay parents.
She's recently set up an account on onlythebreast.com,
a site created for parents in need of breast milk for their babies.
But the vast majority of people who approached me within hours of setting up this account were men.
This was in no way what she'd been expecting.
Quite a few of them initially claimed that they needed breast milk for health reasons
or because they were bodybuilders.
A lot of bodybuilders are convinced that breast milk grows muscle more efficiently than anything else.
However, some of the men who approached me didn't bother with any kind of medical reason,
whether that was an excuse or not, they were just sexual requests.
They wanted the milk itself.
They wanted videos of me pumping my milk.
And some of them requested wet nursing, adult wet nursing,
so they wanted me to breastfeed them.