2007-02-04 06:08:22 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Why not!!!
why not, indeed.
apparently it is possible for a man to lactate, i.e. give milk. even as a single parent of three I have never tried this. It sounds as tho it would be unbearably painful!!
medical reason?
The answer is that as embryos men and women have similar tissues and body parts. If anything the embryo follows a 'female template'. That is why nipples are present in both sexes. It is the effect of the genes, the Y chromosome and the hormone testosterone that brings about the changes and masculinises the embryo. Testosterone promotes the growth of the penis and testicles. Because nipples are there before this process begins the nipples stay!
http://menshealth.about.com/od/conditions/a/Nipples_Men.htm
2007-02-04 06:17:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
To prove they're mammals, obviously. The distinguishing features of mammals, from whales to mice, are two: having hair and suckling their offspring. This gives us the notorious sentence that demonstrates why our pronouns need overhauling: "Man is an animal who suckles his young."
Clearly, if men didn't have nipples, to demonstrate their theoretical membership in the La Leche League, we could only identify them as mammals by their hairiness. And where would that leave bald guys?
2007-02-04 06:12:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I said in Big Brother lol, something about in the whom, we all start as women or something and then we get our penis' if we're boys, but we are stuck with nipples I don't know!
2007-02-04 06:12:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I heard that its because everyone starts off as female in the womb then they either stay female or change to male
2007-02-07 08:48:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the embryo forms male and female characteristics after some time which means that we all start out female.
2007-02-04 06:11:43 · answer #5 · answered by The High Inquisitor 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is dto do with the fact that when they are in the womb both males and females are identical until about 16 weeks....Then they start to produce sex organs......
2007-02-04 06:13:01 · answer #6 · answered by GRANDMA 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
it is because all embryos start off as female so males start to take the shape of a femalesbody first then they produse their own sex organs as soon as the embryos sex is decided through the chromosones etc
2007-02-04 06:14:07 · answer #7 · answered by itsmeeeeeeeee 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because in the first six weeks we are female before our body decides which we become
2007-02-05 12:00:13 · answer #8 · answered by valerie_moore.t21@btinternet.com 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have no clue but I am pretty sure there is a good reason.
2007-02-04 06:24:06 · answer #9 · answered by Andrea luvs u...maybe...lol 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because we all start of the same
2007-02-05 10:34:03 · answer #10 · answered by Robert C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋