Various milk products.
Milk is a white, edible liquid secreted from the mammary glands of female mammals. Its primary purpose is to nourish infants too young to eat conventional food. Due to its nutritional value and taste, animal milk (especially that of cows) is a popular beverage amongst developing and even mature humans.
Aside from being drunk directly, milk can be produced into a wide variety of foods, such as cheese, butter, ice cream, and yoghurt, or even added to existing products to improve the taste, such as coffee. Any produce made from milk is called âdairyâ and farms specializing in breeding milk producing animals, such as goats and cows, are therefore called âdairy farmsâ.
Liminal milk[]
In General[]
Amongst Liminals, both Milk Minotaurs, Pans, Satyrs and Dairy Breed Centaurs are known to lactate permanently, even outside of pregnancy. Over time, this has led to some liminals, who have to be milked constantly, have started to secretly sell their own milk to customers on their farms. In general, liminal milk is highly sought after because it is more nutritious than regular animal milk, and can therefore be sold at very high prices.
Although the Japanese government has officially and completely forbidden the trade and sale of Liminal milk due to ethical concerns, as Ms Smith reveals, the whole thing is actually not that simple, as many people justify their business with Liminal milk with certain phases such as "replacement milk for mothers" or "for research purposes only". This has led to the fact that the sale of Liminal milk has become more of a ridiculously loose gray area, in which it is difficult to determine what is forbidden and what is not. To make matters worse in this respect, probably due to the incomplete laws and adjustments to protect Liminals, a trade or service offering in Liminal milk such as on more dubious Extraspecies Exchange Online Websites does not fall under the Liminal protection arc as long as no Liminals are harmed in the process and money is not involved.[1]
Minotaur, Pan and Satyr milk[]
Minotaur milk is noted to be especially delicious and nutritious, with there even being many Minotaur Milk Connoisseurs. And since the demand is much higher than the supply, it is a fast selling commodity that fetches a high price. Also, since it is technically not cow's milk, it can therefore be drank even by people with a milk allergy.[2]
Likewise, both Minotaur milk and Pan milk are nutritious enough and close enough to mother's milk that it is believed to be almost perfect for a human baby's needs. This, along with bypassing the adverse of effects of individuals who are lactose intolerant, makes Minotaur and Pan milk superior to cow's milk and human milk.[3]
Merino reveals that recently, there has been an issue of new human mothers having problems producing breast milk themselves for their babies, and have learnt of the superiority of Minotaur and Pan milk. As such, they have been been sending orders to Dairy farms handled by female Minotaurs and Pans to deliver their milk to them for a price. This has been done in secret due to the Extra-Species Bill regarding complex ethical issues.[3]
Dairy Breed Centaur milk[]
While the milk of Minotaurs, Pans and Satyrs can be drunk without any known risks, the milk of Dairy Breed Centaurs sometimes caused a negative side effect: due to the strong maternal hormones in the milk the drinker can revert to a infant state in which he/she behaves like a baby and strives to continue drinking milk from breasts, so that this milk is basically like a mind-altering drug. Even persons of extraordinary strength of will like Kimihito are powerless against it, but fortunately, this side effect is only temporarily,[4] although, as can be seen in later cases, the side effect of the milk can last longer, possibly even several days.[1]
While the reason for this negative side effect has been suggested to be due to the maternal hormones in the milk, it is unknown whether this is a common problem of many Dairy Breed Centaurs or can only occur in certain single persons such as Meamil. However, when Meamil herself drank some of Centorea's milk (when the latter suddenly briefly lactated), she herself temporarily returned to an infant state, so it is possibly that Centaur milk may generally caused these side effect, if the milk is drunk by an adult.[4]
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Trivia[]
- While human females also lactate, it is usually only done during and shortly after the time of pregnancy.
- Cattle that are bred exclusively for Dairy Farming are known as Holstein cattle. It is this specific breed of cattle to where the Holstaur species gets its name from.
- Instead of milk, female Honey Bees and Queen Bees produce Royal Jelly from their breasts, which is said to be highly nutritious and valuable. However, in Chapter 89, they are shown to produce honey instead alongside with female Honeypot Ants.
- In dryads and Alraunes, their breasts produce nectar. According to Kii's secrets, there is apparently a theory that the sweet sap of Dryads could act as an aphrodisiac on men, but this theory is not confirmed and it is probably actually false, as Kimihito did not suffer any side effect when he sucked on Kii's breasts in Chapter 20 to sucks the toxins out of her.
- In Slimes, their breasts can store water which can be safely drank.
- It can actually be seen as very strange that female Minotaurs, Pans, Satyrs and Dairy Breed Centaurs in Monster Musume constantly produce milk even outside of pregnancy, since the actual function of breast milk is to feed a child. For this reason, the fact that they have to be milked every day doesn't only make no sense from a biological point of view, outside of a possible commercially viable venue, but also represents a hindrance to everyday life.
- Since it is a fundamental biological trait of female Minotaurs and Pans in Monster Musume to produce breast milk every day, most of them see this as normal and are therefore not familiar with the fact that many other Liminal species only lactate during pregnancy. This is addressed in Chapter 43 when Miia, deeply outraged by Cathyl's and Merino's questions, points out that since she is not pregnant, she does not produce milk, but Cathyl and Merino are only confused by this statement as they cannot understand the correlation between pregnancy and breast milk production in Miia due to their own biological traits.
- Although it's not shown whether the females of animalistic liminals with non-mammalian features produce milk, Miia mentioned that lamias will if they went through pregnancy in chapter 43.
- Although it has been already confirmed in Chapter 56 that female Satyrs just like Pans and Minotaurs constantly produce breast milk, the lactation of a Satyr was not to been shown in the manga series until Chapter 90.
- A fetish for lactation can be known as galactophilia, lactophilia or Infantilism.
- Considering that Meamil's milk puts the drinker in an infantile regression, her milk can be considered as a mind-altering drug, although it is still unclear whether only Meamil's milk has this effect or whether the milk from Dairy Breed Centaur in general has this negative side-effect.
- While it initially seemed in Chapter 71 that the effects of Meamil's milk would disappear on their own over time, Ms Smith's plan with Centorea's "milk training" to stop Meamil in Chapter 86 and the situation in the hospital suggests that the effect may at least last longer than originally suspected.
- Despite her being just as shy, reserved, and chaste as the rest of her species, Merino has a fetish for other people unknowingly consuming her breast milk, which is accomplished by her secretly using it to make milk pudding. The sight of other people enjoying it without knowing it wasn't regular sheep's milk combined with the fact that she knows that they are unaware of it is enough to arouse her to the point her face flushes bright red.[5][6]
- Milk especially those from cows, is often said to be a favorite food for cats or hedgehogs. In real life, however, milk should generally not be fed to adult mammals, as while they depend on it as young, they typically lose their ability to process milk sugar when they mature, making the consumption of milk at that point potentially lead to health problems. Only humans have developed a gene during their evolution that allows their bodies to process lactose even as adults. Other vertebrate groups like birds, reptiles, or amphibians should also never receive milk because, as they do not nurse their young, their bodies are fundamentally not adapted to process milk sugar, leading to a naturally occurring lactose intolerance.
- Technically, it's easier for ladies with saggy breasts to breastfeed babies than those with firm ones as they're more pliant than the latter for the nipples to be latched by them.
See Also[]
References[]
- â 1.0 1.1 Chapter 86
- â Cathyl's Secret Pages
- â 3.0 3.1 Chapter 43
- â 4.0 4.1 Chapter 71
- â Volume 14 Omake
- â Volume 16 Omake