Why do we (men) have nippels

[Strike For The South]

Tee

[Leonin Khan]

why wanna know. so we can give each other a NIPPLETWIST

[Craterus]

Over here they are called turnips (turn-nips). Or Nipple Cripple.

[tibilicus]

Theres another one too, Purple-nurple. This one i got from the show malcom in the middle. God, I really need to stop watching lame american sitcoms. Actually Malcom in the middle is probably one of the better ones.

[Boohugh]

I'm not 100% sure, but i think they are remnants of when we were an unborn baby, and our sex hadn't developed yet, although if anyone knows better, please feel free to correct me

[Byzantine Prince]

So women can pinch them while we make 8dafdasfs8!

[Quietus]

I'm not 100% sure, but i think they are remnants of when we were an unborn baby, and our sex hadn't developed yet, although if anyone knows better, please feel free to correct me

True. If you were female, that nipple would be part of the breast, that's all.

[Big_John]

i don't think nipples are a sex-linked phenotype. just like all humans get eyes (ideally), all humans get nipples. this is broadly true of all mamals, afaik.

also, i'm not sure how common it is, but some men are capable of lactation. i think there was a somewhat famous case of this in indonesia (or someplace nearby) recently.

[lancelot]

Men have nipples because these develop before your gender is 'decided', if you get what I mean..

At least, that is my understanding of it...

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Men have nipples because these develop before your gender is 'decided', if you get what I mean..

At least, that is my understanding of it...

Doesn't make sense, gender is decided by which kind of sperm reaches the egg.

[Big_John]

Doesn't make sense, gender is decided by which kind of sperm reaches the egg.

gender is (usually) decided by the genes, but it's not expressed in the fetus (via testosterone, or lack thereof) until the 8th week, iirc.

[Samurai Waki]

I read somewhere that is was a evolution type organ, at one time they may have been useful, such as lactation but has lost it's purpose, somewhat like the appendix. Some people are born with more than 2 nipples and some people are born with none, just genetics I guess.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Heres some more interesting stuff

Why do men have nipples?' answered in new book
04 August 2005

NEW YORK: Have you ever wondered why your teeth chatter when you're cold, or if you could really catch a disease from sitting on a toilet seat?

New York physician Billy Goldberg, pestered by unusual questions at cocktail parties and other social gatherings over the years, puts the public's mind at ease in his book Why Do Men Have Nipples? which hits the book stores this week.

"It's really remarkable how often you get accosted," said Goldberg, 39.

"There are the medical questions from family and friends, and then there are the drunk and outrageous questions where somebody wants to drop their pants and show you a rash or something."

The book, subtitled, Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini, (Three Rivers Press), is co-authored by humorist Mark Leyner.

"People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops," said Leyner, 49, of Hoboken, New Jersey.

"When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, DC, people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier at Rite Aid."

Chattering teeth is one way the body tries to generate heat.

When the body gets too cold, the area of the brain called the hypothalamus alerts the rest of the body to begin warming up. Shivering, the rapid muscle movement that generates heat, then begins. Teeth chattering represents localised shivering.

During the course of their research, Goldberg and Leyner found reports of gonorrhea, pinworm and roundworm found on toilet seats - but catching something from it isn't common.

The authors discovered that an office setting might be worse for your health than toilet seats.

Charles Gerba, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, found the typical office desk harbours some 400 times more disease-causing bacteria than the average toilet seat.

Goldberg had compiled a list of nagging questions for several years before embarking on the book after meeting Leyner. The two met while working on a short-lived ABC-TV medical drama, Wonderland, in which Leyner served as a writer, while Goldberg was its medical advisor.

Some of the burning questions answered in the humorous book include "What causes morning breath?" and "Why do beans give you gas?"

Goldberg says morning breath results from anaerobic bacteria, the xerostomia (dry mouth) or the volatile sulfur compounds (which are waste products from the bacteria). Other contributing factors to foul oral odour includes medication, alcohol, sugar, smoking, caffeine, and eating dairy products.

Beans contain high percentages of sugars that our bodies are unable to digest, Goldberg explains. When the sugars make it to the intestines, bacteria go to work and start producing large amounts of gas.

And if you're ever bitten by a poisonous snake, sucking at the bite to remove the poison, as often shown in the movies and on TV is not only ineffective, but could lead to an infection.

Instead, the bite should be washed with soap and water and immobilized. The bitten area should also be kept lower than the heart. Medical help should be sought immediately.

And why do men have nipples?

While only females have mammary glands, we all start out in a similar way in the embryo, the authors explain. The embryo follows a female template until about six weeks, when the male sex chromosome kicks in.

Men, however, have already developed nipples.

PS please dont let my last post drag this into the back room.