Why Men Have Nipples (You Don’t Know By Now?)
July 20, 2007 by Sara Ost
Filed under Animals, Boys & Girls, Science, Your Body
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.)
Okay, now I don’t feel so bad. I was getting worried.
Ray, I’m glad I have alleviated your concerns.
I have always wondered! Thank you!!! This was such a funny AND informative article! I loved it!
I never knew what the reason was either! Thanks!
man nipples rule!!!!
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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hmmm… I wonder what the Creationists think about that… Kind of screws up the big picture…
Well they are saying that the nipples are from before we are born not from a million years ago. Those are called vestigial structures. Like our appendix and also the hipbone of a whale. Just a little bit of info for you.
HOLY S***!