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Human breast milk has become a new luxury for China's rich, with some firms offering wet-nurse services, a report said, provoking outrage and disgust among Web users yesterday.

Xinxinyu, a domestic-staff agency in the booming city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, provided wet nurses for newborns, the sick, and other adults who pay high prices for the milk's fine nutrition, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.

"Adult (clients) can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it (after being extracted by) a breast pump if they feel embarrassed," the report quoted company owner Lin Jun as saying.

Wet nurses serving adults are paid around 16,000 yuan (S$3,300) a month - more than four times the Chinese average salary - and those who are "healthy and good looking" could earn even more, the report said.

Traditional beliefs in some parts of China hold that human breast milk has the best and most-easily-digestible nutrition for people who are ill.

But the report sparked heated debate in the media and on Chinese social-media sites, with most users condemning the service as unethical.

"This adds to China's problem of treating women as consumer goods, and the moral degradation of China's rich," said Mr Cao Baoyin, a writer and regular commentator in various Chinese media, on his blog.

There were nearly 140,000 postings on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter, on the topic by yesterday afternoon.

"People become perverts when they are too rich and tired of other forms of entertainment. This is disguised pornography," said a user with the online handle ricky-gao.

"It's just a business," said A Xiao Shuai. "People are insensitive about ethics when there is money on the table."
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