Talking Tropes: Lactation (Journal #01) (Patreon)

There's a load of tropes that we could go over in the expansion fetish world, but I want to start with one of the most breast-focused ones out there: lactation.

Out of all the little kinks and derivatives of what we enjoy, lactation feels the most prominent. It shouldn't be a surprise however, as its one of the more realistic kinks that is in the book, compared to floating or slime or what have you. I myself have always had a propensity towards lactation. And I always wondered: why?

To understand one another, especially on topics such as desire, we must delve into ourselves and find what pulls us towards it, and see if any dots connect or layers overlap.

My own fascination with lactation, it seemed, was not necessarily the focus on the suggestation of lactation, i.e. a nursing mom or pregnant woman. No, it was more when the lactation was not attached to normal cicrumstances that I felt personally drawn to the idea of it. I realized, at a certian point, that I find lactation as a good extension upon expansion itself; a way of ratcheting up stakes in a narrative, or adding just that new shade of anxiety to a character.

As an aside: why is it so fun to have a character get what they want, only for it to go wrong? What is it about anxiety and panic revolving around smut and tits that I find so compelling? I don't find distress in general as interesting; rather, only when distress is matched with something as banal as bigger or leaky tits do I find this something to be interested in. I say this because lactation can be used as a bait-and-switch trope: a character gets the bigger boobs they always wanted, the exact size, shape and everything. They're elated, on top of the moon, until SUDDENLY: MILK.

Something about that seems to be out of the orbit of standard interest in smut. There's another connecting tissue of attraction that i believe is not in touch with the physical state of a character, but rather, the transitory state a character can be within; not knowing when something will stop, if it will get worse or better, etc. These are concepts that, when toyed with, I feel as if can have a greater effect than just writing a story about a woman who normally lactates and nothing else is amiss. And they are not exclusively attached to lactation either.

So I've wrapped this conclusion around to discover that it may not, in fact, be the lactation itself that pulls me, and thus, many others, towards lactation. No, it is the implications and consequences of lactation that compels many into the lactation fetish, as is many other peripheral kinks out there. 

I may talk in circles about these topics in the future, but lactation, as a whole, is a kink/fetish that can come in many shades and varieties. Stating my own personal thoughts on the matter, I hope, will have others reflect on themselves and why they enjoy what they enjoy.

A great example of lactation-centric literature, in my mind, will always be Lactose Intolerance by beablebob. Its definitely something that really harps on a characters gradual transformation into a milking machine without them consciously realizing what was happening until its too late. I've had some note about how dark it is, and its true: there is no happy ending for the character. In fact, its a pretty dystopian, miserable experience for her!

So why do I enjoy the story? Do I enjoy misery porn? Well, no, not really; I generally enjoy when there are characters having a good time in these fantasies. No, what I enjoyed was the realism. How this character half-tried every solution and didn't really put effort into figuring it out until it was too late. No convenient magic excuses to make the problem go away - nope, you're like this forever, too bad! Did she deserve this treatment? No. Is she a bad person? Nope, just an average woman with lactose intolerance. So why this treatment? Because, in my own personal heart of hearts, I believe that another person or entity would be willing to do this to another unsuspecting individual. My own lack of faith in the good will of other people really lends itself to this story in particular lol, and its why others find it off putting, depressing, and overall unenjoyable.

But we wrap back to the main point of these journals: the lactation kink, and kinks in general, are within their own spectrum. We will enjoy things in ways that others won't, and vice-versa. And that's fine! As long as this remains fictional, there's no real harm coming upon anyone for writing out lewd scenarios about dark rooms where women grow bigger than their couches and spray out gallons of milk.

I won't goad interactivity with this post, but I do recommend that if you yourself have the lactation fetish that you reflect upon what it is that you really enjoy about it. Think about stories you've read, videos you've watched, and try to find that connecting thread within yourself to udnerstand exactly what it is that is interesting you about a woman's tits leaking milk. Its a healthy mental exercise and can lead to smaller things you enjoy that you may have never thought about!