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Why do males have nipples?

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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
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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!!!
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

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!!!
Click to expand...
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?
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

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!!!
Click to expand...
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?
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Nature doesn't always do things simply. It just happens whatever what it happened. Nipples are not sex-linked traits.
 
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.
 
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.
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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?
 
Originally posted by: mariok2006
Nipples are developed before the sex is decided.
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Isn't that decided at conception? Nipples have nothing to do with sex selection - it's hardcoded into everyones DNA.
 
because like someone else said our nipple gene is not on a sex chromosome, meaning everyone gets them in the womb.
 
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.
 
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