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Milkmaid

A milkmaid is historically a woman, usually young, who milked cows and supplied milk.

In previous centuries, before vaccination became common, milkmaids were sometimes sited as the example of someone with good skin. This was in part due to the fact that their exposure to cowpox gave them immunity to smallpox, so they did not have the "pockmarked" complexion common to smallpox survivors.

In sexual fetishism or paraphilia, the name is also given to women who supply milk for sexual purposes.

See also:

• Milk fetishism

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