The term Erotic Lactation refers to the search for sexual stimulus through consumption of breast milk. Unlike its connotation for a child, breastfeeding in adults is a sexual impulse and hardly a means towards nutritive fulfillment. In certain cases, an adult feels great sexual arousal on being breastfed. While for most of us, it has been a rejuvenating impulse sometime or the other in our congenital life, a few follow it to the threshold of fetishism. Erotic lactation has a dubious social implication. It borders on the perverse and thus those who indulge in it often keep it hidden even from their closest associates. When such a relationship duly develops between a lactating woman and her partner, it is also termed as adult nursing relationship. Lesbians also practice adult breastfeeding. The cult has taken wings because scientists opine that suckling releases a hormone called oxytocin that is considered to be a pleasant tranquilizer and brings down nervous tautness and stress while bringing euphoria and pleasantness.

Female nipple has always been an erogenous zone. Quite like penis in males and clitoris in females, a female nipple is known for its sensitivity towards oral stimulation. This is where adult breastfeeding comes into the picture; as nothing but the next stage (or perhaps the last stage) of foreplay and nipple stimulation. Adult breastfeeding is more like a secret niche, something like sexual pony play in 19th century London (a sadomasochistic role-play). It is performed in closed quarters. While it is a liberating experience for many women and brings them to the point of hysteria, it also becomes boring for a few women who do not find adult breastfeeding arousing enough.

Erotic lactation has become a niche in itself because it combines sexual awakening with emotional stability. Many of those who indulge in it feel an unprecedented bonding and mutual trust going between them and their partners. A few in the western society believe that the practice ranks as Queer- a departure from the normative tendencies and covered by social vagueness. Erotic lactation covers Lactation Games. This is generally the norm with women who have just given birth to a child. Lactation pornography is not a norm as it involves incest. Also, the attributes of child abuse are present in it. Adult Nursing Relationship also dominates the Erotic lactation scene. The idea is to regularize the practice as then it can lead to steady lactation in women.