They serve no purpose on men. Why are they there?
2007-08-05 14:16:25 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Men's Health
If you rub them, you receive pleasure.
2007-08-05 14:24:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think they serve no purpose? I could, by the same token, say that unless and only when a women has a baby do hers ever serve a purpose. And not all women have babies. And since many women who do have babies don't breast feed, then theirs serve no purpose, either. So why do they have them?
And fetuses don't start out female. That's a myth thought up by females to act superior. A fetus is gender neutral and actually starts out more male in appearances than female, with what looks like the beginnings of a penis. It is then actually closer to being a male than female, and in reality the female releases hormones which kill off any chance for it to be male for it to become a female.
2007-08-05 21:21:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When there is a shortage of women (biologically known as a "single-sex environment"), some men (typically 10-20%) will begin to lactate.
It is an emergency function of the human species. If there are babies to feed and no mommies, the men have to fill in.
But, typically, the amount and virility of the lactate is not sufficient to support an infant.
2007-08-05 21:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by Lenny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is much more efficient genetically to throttle back on a feature than it is to eliminate it outright. Same thing might be asked about hair on women's faces and men's chests. Other animals have decreased remnants (vestigial) of bones (like in a horse's foot where the hoof is a finger nail and the rest of the bones in your hand are in there) and muscles (like walking muscles in the body of dolphins)
2007-08-05 21:21:57 · answer #4 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, they look hot, and sucking on them is great fun. And they can be pierced. So, hey, what's not to like?
Also, if you are a photographer, and you're shooting pictures of guys with their shirts off, you can use the nipple as a focusing point, which is more defined than the face. So, they're useful as well.
2007-08-05 21:21:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A developing fetus is neither male nor female. By the time a fetus begins to become a male, nipples are basically leftovers from his early stages of development.
2007-08-05 21:22:26 · answer #6 · answered by Max 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know it sounds weird, but I've read that the fetus starts out as a female, and even when it changes to male the nipples stay.
2007-08-05 21:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by writeaway 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
who knows? could be leftover genes, after all, both men AND women have an X chromosome, but we'd need a geneologist or whatever.
2007-08-05 21:19:40 · answer #8 · answered by Phobos 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason we still have an appendix, it is an evolutionary vestage, like the tail bone, from when our ancestors had tails.
2007-08-05 21:21:14 · answer #9 · answered by dpilipis 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
we are all born 'female' and the male hormones kick in to give us the right genetalia etc after nipples have formed, so we keep them!
2007-08-05 21:20:10 · answer #10 · answered by James W 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋