what is the purpose?

Question

of the male nipples? (as in nipples on the chest?

Answer 1

Apparently to pierce.

Answer 2

When the egg is fertilized, the sex is decided instantly at contraception. As the egg under goes mitosis, the cells are divded into several groups .Some group of cells become the brain, some lungs, some breast, and like that various body organs or parts.
The group of cells that beceom the penis if the egg becomes a male could have easily become the cells of the vagina if the egg had two X chromosomes. In otherwords the penis and vagina grow out of the same group of cells.

Now the group of cells that form the breast tissue could have become women's breasts or men's breasts. The nipple could have become a nipple of a woman had thep erosn been a woman.

There have been medical conditions where there is amutation. If a man produces a lot of estrogen or takes it in whythey would you will start to see breast developement. Though they will never become full fledged woman's breasts simply because the genes arent there or arent activated.

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Answer 3

Purpose is deliberately thought-through goal-directedness.

According to some philosophies, purpose is central to a good human life. Helen Keller wrote that happiness comes from "fidelity to a worthy purpose", and Ayn Rand wrote that purpose must be one of the three ruling values of human life (the others are reason and self-esteem). Some people think that God assigns purposes to people and that it is their mission to fulfill them. Others say that purpose is not inherent, but instead freely chosen (or not chosen) by individuals. Among these, some say that natural propensities may determine what sorts of purposes a person needs to pursue, but do not guarantee that he or she will pursue them, that being dependent on free choice.

Pursuing a career, raising a family, devotion to a creative vocation or to a cause, and acquiring property are perhaps the most widespread of long-term purposes that make life meaningful according to such philosophies. Public service and helping the needy are often cited. Variants of philosophies such as eudaimonia and objectivism sometimes claim that self-sacrificial goals are destructive.

Purpose is similar to teleology, the idea that a final goal is implicit in all living organisms. Until the modern age, philosophy followed Aristotle's depiction of a teleological cosmos in which all things had a final purpose (namely, to realize their implicit perfection). Perhaps most modern philosophers of science have reversed the idea of purpose inherent in nature; they do not consider an eye explicable as being "in order to see"; instead, cause-and-effect processes are credited with bringing about the eye organ, which allows us to see. The difference is between a cause as pushing from behind (movements of billiard balls) and a cause as pulling from within (movement of a growing plant). With teleology (purpose) matter is fulfilling some aim from within.

Answer 4

theyre just there because for a certain amount of time you guys have women chromosomes or something like that then you get the male ones...so basically there is no purpose...theres a book....why do men have nipples...you should read it

Answer 5

Can you imagine a guy w/out nipples. Not sure of the purpose, maybe for a chick to lick???

Answer 6

when the baby is devloping in the womb the nipples are form before the sex of the baby is sort of chosen thats why we men have nipples strange but true.

Answer 7

They are dormant milk organs. But they will actually work!

If a male gets enough of the right hormones they will function. My son was born lactating a few drops, due to the hormones he received in the womb through his mother's placenta.

Answer 8

biologically, all zygotes start off as females, so the nipples start to develop. . .but then when the male hormones kick in the milk ducts never form and actual breasts don't form. . .

Answer 9

All embryo start out the same, including the breast. It's only later in the gestation period that the male and female genitalia are formed.

Answer 10

A fetus is a female then develops into a male once the testosterone levels rise.

Close to that.

Answer 11

I think men would look really funny if they didn't have nipples.