Why do males have nipples?

[Printer Bandit]

 

[Rufus12]

So we can breast feed babies.

 

[compuwiz1]

I dunno, but after having them for so long I think I'd look funny without them.

Maybe so we don't get jealous of women for having them.

 

[DangerAardvark]

So we have something to pinch when we put on makeup and tuck it back in front of the mirror.

 

[MichaelD]

As useless as tits on a bull. Seriously.

To really understand this conundrum, you need to go way, WAY back to conception...where we ALL ARE "BORN" as females. Really. Take it from there...testes/ovaries and all.

 

[tboo]

Something to do with call holding & call waiting.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
As useless as tits on a bull. Seriously.

To really understand this conundrum, you need to go way, WAY back to conception...where we ALL ARE "BORN" as females. Really. Take it from there...testes/ovaries and all.

Not "born" as female, but female characteristics are the default pathway. This has nothing to do with nipples though. The gene controlling nipple formation is not linked to a sex chromosome, and thus men and women both have nipples. Sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin (milk-producing hormone from the pituitary) are what cause breast tissue to grow.

 

[overst33r]

Nipples are developed before the sex is decided.

 

[KLin]

"I have nipples Greg. Could you milk me?"

:laugh:

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: MichaelD
As useless as tits on a bull. Seriously.

To really understand this conundrum, you need to go way, WAY back to conception...where we ALL ARE "BORN" as females. Really. Take it from there...testes/ovaries and all.

Not "born" as female, but female characteristics are the default pathway. This has nothing to do with nipples though. The gene controlling nipple formation is not linked to a sex chromosome, and thus men and women both have nipples. Sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin (milk-producing hormone from the pituitary) are what cause breast tissue to grow.

But it IS all about the nipples. If I'm not going to suckle my baby, why do I need nipples? Why not during the formation process (after my sex has been determined) do my nipples not fade away? My testicles used to be ovaries, my nipples were supposed to become breasts (bigguns...not my manly guns...) so why not?

Anyway, I'm glad I'm male. I'm not subject to the monthly insanity/loss of mental function like my wife.
/looks over shoulder

Oh shit...I think she hears me typing...she'll fucking kill me if she reads this...gotta go....teh womenz is teh SCHAIRIIIIZ at that time of teh montheszzzz!!!

 

[frostedflakes]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: MichaelD
As useless as tits on a bull. Seriously.

To really understand this conundrum, you need to go way, WAY back to conception...where we ALL ARE "BORN" as females. Really. Take it from there...testes/ovaries and all.

Not "born" as female, but female characteristics are the default pathway. This has nothing to do with nipples though. The gene controlling nipple formation is not linked to a sex chromosome, and thus men and women both have nipples. Sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin (milk-producing hormone from the pituitary) are what cause breast tissue to grow.

But it IS all about the nipples. If I'm not going to suckle my baby, why do I need nipples? Why not during the formation process (after my sex has been determined) do my nipples not fade away? My testicles used to be ovaries, my nipples were supposed to become breasts (bigguns...not my manly guns...) so why not?

Anyway, I'm glad I'm male. I'm not subject to the monthly insanity/loss of mental function like my wife.
/looks over shoulder

Oh shit...I think she hears me typing...she'll fucking kill me if she reads this...gotta go....teh womenz is teh SCHAIRIIIIZ at that time of teh montheszzzz!!!

It's kind of interesting, I guess I never really thought about this. You'd think that it would make sense for nipples to develop after sexual differentiation if they're needed. Can anybody explain why this isn't the case?

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
So we have something to pinch when we put on makeup and tuck it back in front of the mirror.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: frostedflakes

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: MichaelD
As useless as tits on a bull. Seriously.

To really understand this conundrum, you need to go way, WAY back to conception...where we ALL ARE "BORN" as females. Really. Take it from there...testes/ovaries and all.

Not "born" as female, but female characteristics are the default pathway. This has nothing to do with nipples though. The gene controlling nipple formation is not linked to a sex chromosome, and thus men and women both have nipples. Sex hormones, like estrogen, progesterone, and prolactin (milk-producing hormone from the pituitary) are what cause breast tissue to grow.

But it IS all about the nipples. If I'm not going to suckle my baby, why do I need nipples? Why not during the formation process (after my sex has been determined) do my nipples not fade away? My testicles used to be ovaries, my nipples were supposed to become breasts (bigguns...not my manly guns...) so why not?

Anyway, I'm glad I'm male. I'm not subject to the monthly insanity/loss of mental function like my wife.
/looks over shoulder

Oh shit...I think she hears me typing...she'll fucking kill me if she reads this...gotta go....teh womenz is teh SCHAIRIIIIZ at that time of teh montheszzzz!!!

It's kind of interesting, I guess I never really thought about this. You'd think that it would make sense for nipples to develop after sexual differentiation if they're needed. Can anybody explain why this isn't the case?

Nature doesn't always do things simply. It just happens whatever what it happened. Nipples are not sex-linked traits.

 

[Ruptga]

nipples don't fade away because they don't need to. Having nipples as a male doesn't make you any less viable as an individual of the species, so we have never been naturally selected to be nipple-less.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: ADDAvenger
nipples don't fade away because they don't need to. Having nipples as a male doesn't make you any less viable as an individual of the species, so we have never been naturally selected to be nipple-less.

But the "mission of the nipples" (breastfeeding a baby) is not realized in the male of the human species. I'm not "that smart" but am I not correct? So...why do I have nipples?

 

[StinkyPinky]

Originally posted by: mariok2006
Nipples are developed before the sex is decided.

Isn't that decided at conception? Nipples have nothing to do with sex selection - it's hardcoded into everyones DNA.

 

[Ruptga]

because like someone else said our nipple gene is not on a sex chromosome, meaning everyone gets them in the womb.

 

[Leros]

Proof against intelligent design?

 

[MoPHo]

Why are my nipples hairy? That's a better question.

 

[WraithETC]

Cause god has nipples heathens!

 

[CallMeJoe]

To give you another place to hang rings, of course.

 

[spidey07]

Because we ALL start off as females in the womb.

 

[nageov3t]

jay gould wrote an interesting essay on it... male nipples and clitoral ripples, I think was the title. read it for a bio class in college.

I believe it basically boiled down to the fact that nipples are formed before gender? and because nipples on a man aren't genetically disadvantageous, there's no reason that they'd have been weeded out through evolution.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Leros
Proof against intelligent design?

Fail - look into fetal development, cell replication, roles of hormones, DNA, whatever, on and on and on.

 

[0roo0roo]

same reason women have orgasms