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Men's nipples are great for baby
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies, Development/Milestones: Babies
Why do men have nipples?" asked my precocious 3 year-old at the dinner table. None of the guests seemed to know. General consensus was reached that it must have something to do with both male and female bodies evolving from the same prototype. But, I have to admit I had pondered that on occasion.
Low and behold, the answer I was searching seems so simple. According to FatherWorld, a major report published in time for Father's Day, a man's nipple makes a fabulous pacifier. It gives the babes something to suck until Mama and her melons can be located. The Aka Pygmies of northern Congo have been voted, "Best Dads in the World" because they've mastered the masculine art of baby calming by offering their man-boobs to their infants.
I wish my husband had figured that one out.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:41PM
Andru Edwards said...Unfortunately, I am going to have to disagree :)
My father tells the tale of when my older sister was a baby, and our mother was out somewhere. She was crying softly, but wouldnt stop. He decided the only thing left to do was try to calm her by letting her suck on his nipple as she probably wouldnt be able to tell the difference - aside from the lack of milk.
As soon as she got it in her mouth, she started wailing. He learned his lesson :)
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12-18-2005 @ 6:41PM
Mike said...The reason men have nipples is because untill the sixth week of pregnancy all babies are female. On the sixth week the gender of the unborn child either stays as female or changes to male.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:41PM
Meiera Holz Stern said...Thanks, Mike, for setting the record straight on nipple develpment. But I have to disagree with you that the embryo/fetus "stays" female. The fetus becomes female or male from the original sexless embryo. Maleness is not a further development on femaleness.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:41PM
Mike said...Meiera, You are quiet right. I just could't think of what way to put it. Thanks for clearing that up. I hope it was helpfull. I read it in a book last year when my other half was pregnant with our first child.
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12-18-2005 @ 6:41PM
Elijah said...Damn i look good with nipples they make me look.......COOL! lets just accept the fact that we have em and that's the way it's gonna be, so stop Pondering about it.....if you want an answere its this: GOD GAVE EM TO US, to make us look good and for pleaseure...so suck it up princesses.....FOOLS!!!
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12-18-2005 @ 6:41PM
steve said...Male nipples need to be caressed and sucked. My child likes em!, and my wife gives me woody each time she nurses on em!
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