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A shocking video circulating online shows an Indian groom being breastfed by his mother on his wedding day.
In the video, the man, seen dressed in his wedding attire, is with his mother.
Meanwhile, they are surrounded by guests.
The mother is seen lifting her blouse up and easing her son’s head forward.
The groom obliges and proceeds to be breastfed. As he does so, one of the guests holds his turban in place.
His mother looks at the camera and briefly smiles.
The young man then stops what he is doing and also looks at the camera.
Although the video has unsurprisingly shocked viewers, research has found that being breastfed is a sexual fetish for some Indian men.
In the past, various analyses of India’s Google search data have revealed that queries related to breastfeeding adults are very popular in the country.
There are a lot of Indian Google searches that include “my husband wants me to breastfeed him”.
Google data from 2017 showed that the number of searches on how to breastfeed a baby was almost equal to the number of searches on how to breastfeed an adult man.
Pallavi Barnwal, a sexuality coach based in New Delhi, told VICE:
“Adult breastfeeding (ABF) can mean many things – be it just watching a woman breastfeeding, actually suckling the lactating breasts and deriving sexual pleasure out of that (termed as ‘lactophilia’), or simply having sex with a lactating woman.