I am arguing w/ my wife and her sister. please explain that men don't have breast!!?

Question

WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN THAT MEN DO NOT HAVE BREAST OR WE WOULD BE PRODUCING MILK!!!

DAMN!!

Answer 1

Sorry but men do in fact have some breast tissue, they just don't have the milk ducts and all of that good stuff. This is why males can also (although VERY rarely) be diagnosed with breast cancer. Also there are a few men and boys where a condition develops called gynecomastia that is breast enlargement in males (and I'm not just talking about "man boobs" on a fat guy)...

Answer 2

Men DO have breasts, just as women have chests. Just becuase a man's breasts don't produce milk (and yes men HAVE nursed) normally doesn't mean they're not breasts...
Merriam websters deffinition...
1 : either of the pair of mammary glands extending from the front of the chest in pubescent and adult human females and some other mammals; also : either of the analogous but rudimentary ORGANS OF THE MALE CHEST especially when enlarged
2 a : the fore or ventral part of the body between the neck and the abdomen b : the part of an article of clothing covering the breast
3 : the seat of emotion and thought : BOSOM
4 a : something (as a front, swelling, or curving part) resembling a breast b : FACE 6
- breast·ed /'bres-t&d/ adjective

Answer 3

sorry you lose, you do have breast they just never delevop, and yes you can get breast cancer, there have been men go throught that already. here's your proof.
From Wacklepedia - The Free Encyclopedia


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The term breast can refer to the upper ventral region of the human torso. Alternatively the term is used for each of two parts of that, especially for women: the breasts are parts of the female human body that contain the organs that secrete milk used to feed babies. Maless also have breasts and are born with the main milk ducts intact, but while the gland that produces milk is present in the male, it remains undeveloped unless stimulated by the female hormone, estrogen. Milk production can also occur in both men and women as a rare side-effect of some medicinal drugs (such as some antipsychotic medication). Both sexes have a large concentration of blood vessels and nerves in their nipples

Answer 4

sorry buddy u lose mean do infact have breast but they do not have the mammary glands need 2 produce milk. Men can even have breast cancer, i use 2 work in x ray and in fact we had a man one day that had to have a mammogram done on his breast because the doctor found a lump and thought it might have been breast cancer, yes it was painful for hin 2!

Answer 5

Okay, I'm sorry to dissapoint you!! Men do have breast tissue, I know this because my husband had a lump in his "breast" and had to have a mamogram. The milk comes from milk ducts...that men don't have. But men do have breast tissue.

Answer 6

men do have breasts
can get breast cancer
and on occasion produce breast milk

Answer 7

There is not a lot of diference between a man's breast and a woman's breast. Men can get breast cancer just like a woman.

Answer 8

You do have breasts. They're just immature. They don't receive estrogen in puberty to cause them to mature and prepare for lactation. However, if you stimulated them enough the appropriate hormone would be released, and your breasts would mature and produce milk. Men have nursed their babies. http://www.unassistedchildbirth.com/miscarticles/milkmen.html

And yes, men can get breast cancer. They have everything there, it's just not developed like a mature woman's.

Here's Wikipedia's page on the subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation

Answer 9

Men have to ability to produce milk. In fact there was a pill out there treating insomnia, but it made men leak milk from thier boobs, so now it is used to treat mothers who cannnot produce enough milk............ good luck

Answer 10

Everybody has breast tissue, men included.