Women have nipples for children. Why do men?
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eve was made from adam's rib.  therefore she will have the same qualities as adam, only except she is a female.  women have titties, men have breast. women have their sex organs inside, men have them outside. it's just the way God made us.\n\nand also because females have the xx chromosome and the males have the xy chromosome, so 2 xx's determine a female and an x and a y determine a male. as you can see both male and female share the same chromosome, x. therefore you can say that in a sense, women and men are the same in many physical appearances, but not all.\n\ni hope i answered your question.\nmore info, email me at thirstyoncourt@yahoo.com
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because men still have the capabiltiy to produce milk...it may be weird but through the power of suggestion or with hormones it can be done... and has already been done...\n\nmost people might say its vestigial but that wouldnt be so if its still fully functional... anyway hope this helps..\n\nps: perhaps one day in the future the need will arise for men to use them (once again?)
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Without Nipples the Male Chest Looks Strange.  The nipples provide a focus point for the male chest. They direct the eye to the curve of the pectoral muscle. \n\nMen and women are mammals (from the Latin mamma breast) a species that have breasts and feeds its young with milk. The human embryo has tissue that will evolve into breasts. Both male and female babies are born with nipples and ducts intact. It is the presence of genes that direct hormones to differentiate the breast tissue. The Y chromosome stimulates hormones such as testosterone to form male features.\n\nInsufficient or defective testosterone, poor tissue responsiveness, or an unbalance of other hormones like Estrogen and Prolactin can cause female like breasts even in men (Gynecomastia). At birth, the small amount of the mother's estrogen in the baby can result in small breasts that usually resolve. There can be an inbalance of hormones during male puberty that can result in temporary breast growth, which for most resolves. There are many medical problems and drugs that can cause male breast growth. \n \nThe nipple is actually the central protrusion inside of the pigmented areola. There is a thin muscle just under the skin that when stimulated, tends to flatten the puffed male nipple areola. This muscle when stimulated in a breast feeding woman, projects the nipple for the baby. Nerves that innervate the nipple / areola can produce pleasure for both men and women.
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Nipples are not too much attractive as the whole breast are.But its very sensitive,so it should be covered for its sensitivity.
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We are classified as mammals.  Mammals feed their young by the use of breast milk.  All male and female animals have nipples (what was God thinking?), but only the females have the hormones and additional physical items necessary to activate the lactation process.\n\nGender differneces stem from the X/Y genetic differences.  The rest of the body (including nipples) is controlled by genes elsewhere.\n\nStranger questions would be why do some women have Adam's apples or beards.  Nobody knows.
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I think you're answering your own question.  You say that, according to creationism, women were created in man's image, which would mean that man existed before woman, which in turn would mean that Adam already had nipples and therefore Eve was created with nipples (in his image), but with breasts to feed her babies.\n\nSo, logically, men have nipples because they descend from Adam, who was created with nipples.
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Why Men Have Nipples\n\nFor the most part, nipples are on men's chests not for ornamentation, but because we all initially originate from the same kinds of tissues. By Louanne Cole Weston, PhD\n  \n\nMales and females, though very different, have a great deal in common. In the earliest part of our embryonic development, we all start out much the same. Though the sex of an embryo is determined when sperm meets egg, the genital anatomy of males and females cannot be visually distinguished with the use of ultrasound until the 15th week of pregnancy. \n\n\nFrom the beginning, we all have the tissues that later develop into functioning parts, depending on whether we are genetically coded to be male or female. (The genetic coding that leads to people who have both male and female anatomical traits is much more complex than we'll get into here.) \n\n\nMales have nipples because they develop with the capacity to be female should their chromosomes dictate. Females call upon this capacity when they hit puberty and their breasts develop. Later, if they become pregnant, they call upon it again as milk is created in their breasts. Generally, males do not have a reason for the nipple to function, although, from time to time, adolescent and adult males develop a condition called gynecomastia, in which hormonal levels fool the breasts into beginning to develop. \n\n\nBut for the most part, nipples are on men's chests not for ornamentation, but because we all initially originate from the same kinds of tissues. Males just don't need their breast tissue to be a functioning part of their anatomy
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There is a book that answers this question, along with a ton of other odd medical questions called "Why Do Men Have Nipples?"\n\nHaving read the book I now know that men have nipples because, in the womb we all start out as girls.  It's only after a certain point that the fetus' sexual organs become "outies".  So rather than a clitoris and ovaries,  Mr. Winkie and his two friends pop out.  That is if the baby is genetically destined to be a boy, of course.
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Men's nipples don't have a purpose.  When a baby is developing in the uterus, they all start out as female, hence the nipples developing.  Basically in order for a male to develop from there is a genetic fluke which sends signals to start developing male organs.  The only sign that is left that all men started as females at the most basic level of life is the nipples.\n\nFascinating, huh?
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When we are concieved the chromosones dont distinguish between male and female until after the nipples have started to develop.\n\nWith women the cells continue to specialise and produce breast tissue with men they don't.
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The female breasts are like toy trains.  They are made for the kids, but daddies like to play with them too.  :-)
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In order to have children a human being needs to have a uterus. Being men do not have a uterus they cannot have children.
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Because women are kind, caring, compassionate, nurturing, understanding and all those things that a child needs in life.\n\nThe reason is a biological and physiological one - men are the hunter gatherers and women are the nurturers.
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In my undergrad biology days, this was actually discussed in a developmental biology class.\n\nMen have nipples because, at one time in the womb, they were female.  As the embryo develops, it takes the influence of genes located on the Y chromosome to allow the fetus to develop primary male sexual characteristics.  Up until that point, only the X chromosome is active, and nipple formation has already taken place.\n\nThe nipples are not a purely female trait; it's the mammary tissue in the breasts that are the real indicator.
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we don't have them...you always hide them...\nperhaps since you have no appendage hanging out to get visually hard...but you do have nipples...maybe some men think when they are hard your hot and ready...
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To tell you the truth, nobody really knows. The best explanation I've been able to find (and frankly it doesn't explain very much) is that nipples aren't a sex-linked characteristic. In other words, nipples are just one of those sexually neutral pieces of equipment, like arms or brains, that humans get regardless of sex. \n\nAs you may know, every human being gets a unique set of 23 pairs of chromosomes at conception. These fall into two categories. One pair of chromosomes determines sex--the XX combination means you become female, the XY combination means you become male. \n\nThe other 22 pairs, the non-sex chromosomes (they're called autosomes), supply what we might call the standard equipment that all humans get. These 22 pairs constitute an all-purpose genetic blueprint that in effect is programmed for either maleness or femaleness by the sex chromosomes. The programming is done by the hormones secreted by the sex glands. \n\nFor example, the autosomes give you a voice box, while the sex hormones determine whether it's going to be a deep male voice or a high female voice. Similarly, the autosomes give you nipples, and the sex hormones determine whether said nipples are going to be functioning (in females) or not (in males).\n\nOne interesting consequence of the developmental set-up just described is that during the very early stages of fetal life, before the sex hormones have had a chance to do their stuff, all humans are basically bisexual. Among other things, you have two sets of primitive plumbing--one male, one female. Only one set develops into a mature urogenital system, but you retain traces of the other for the rest of your life.\n\nIt's tempting, therefore, to say that male nipples are yet another vestige of your carefree bisexual youth. Trouble is, male nipples are hardly vestigial. They're full-sized and fully equipped with blood vessels, nerves, and all the usual appurtenances of functioning organs. Why this should be so nobody knows--in some other mammals, such as rats and mice, male nipple development is completely suppressed by the male sex hormones. (Incidentally, don't start thinking that at one time our human male ancestors must have suckled their young. So far as anybody knows, male lactation has never developed in any mammalian species.)\n\nHuman nipples appear in the third or fourth week of development, well before the sex characteristics. (The sex hormones start to assert themselves at seven weeks.) As many as seven pairs of nipples are arranged along either side of a "milk line," a ridge of skin that runs from the upper chest to the navel. \n\nNormally only one pair amounts to anything, but on about one baby in a hundred you can detect some vestige of the other ones, usually on the order of a freckle. There are cases of women who ended up with an extra breast, which made them freak show candidates not so many years ago. Luckily today the women can avail themselves of corrective surgery while the rest of us can watch Jenny Jones.\n\nAnyway, both male and female babies are born with the main milk ducts intact--the gland that produces milk is there in the male, but it remains undeveloped unless stimulated by the female hormone, estrogen. Occasionally, a male baby is born with enough of his mother's estrogen in his body to produce a bizarre phenomenon known as "witches' milk," with the male glands, suitably stimulated, pumping away at the moment of birth. \n\nIn the adult male, the dormant glands can still be revived by a sufficient dose of estrogen. Actual lactation is rare--only a couple cases have been recorded. But at least one writer (Daly, 1978) has suggested that the "physiological impediments to the evolution of male lactation do not seem individually surmountable." Meaning we may yet see the dawn of the truly liberated household.
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Marriage doesn't make any difference to the appearance of nipples.  I used to think that nipples had one tiny hole in the middle somewhere.  I got a surprise the first time I nursed.  The nipples have lots of little holes like a garden watering can.  The holes are so little you can't see them.