If I’m not mistaken, lactation only occurs during pregnancy or after birth when the body has the correct hormones. I have never heard of non-pregnant women randomly lactating, yet there are men who do.
I understand men can develop the correct “equipment,” but why would they be experiencing the hormones needed to cause milk production when they aren’t pregnant? Women are capable of pregnancy but their bodies don’t make milk randomly.
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Hormones are produced by specific organs (glands) in the body, and if something happens to those organs (benign tumors, surgical operations, poisoning, medication, etc.), then a person’s hormones can go all sorts of wrong, including lactation in men. Add to this that many hormones regulate or influence the output of other hormones, so sending that system into chaos is not particularly hard.
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