Why Men Have Nipples (You Don’t Know By Now?)
Enough with the female celebrity nipple news. It’s time to make nipples respectable again. What did they ever do to you? Seriously, aren’t we sick of starlet slip-ups yet? News flash: we all have nipples!
Nipples: It’s About Science, People
The reason men have nipples is because our lactiferous ducts develop before testosterone enters the fetal picture. (Yes, we all start as females.) In fact, male mammary tissue can be stimulated to lactate. In Aka culture of Africa - reportedly home of the best fathers on earth - the dads frequently suckle their babies while mom goes off to hunt.
Nipples are not the only thing men and women have in common. Men also possess a “leftover” uterus. It hangs off the prostate gland. We have a lot of useless body parts leftover from previous adventures in evolution. Wisdom teeth, the coccyx, the appendix, and in fact, body hair are all unnecessary remnants of our evolutionary past. Who knows what we’ll look like a few million years from now! (I predict text message thumbs.)
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6 opinions for Why Men Have Nipples (You Don’t Know By Now?)
Raymond Johnson
Jul 21, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Okay, now I don’t feel so bad. I was getting worried.
Sara
Jul 21, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Ray, I’m glad I have alleviated your concerns. ;)
DopeyLaRue
Jul 23, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I have always wondered! Thank you!!! This was such a funny AND informative article! I loved it!
Trisha
Jul 25, 2007 at 4:32 pm
I never knew what the reason was either! Thanks!
kasey
Apr 17, 2008 at 6:45 am
man nipples rule!!!!
Rahul
Aug 26, 2008 at 4:32 am
Indeed informative, but I feel rather than leftover, its more of a senstive part if properly stimualted during XXX enconters…so indeed very important body part of men, after all we too need stimulation. Right.
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