you all got me wonderin with all the male shirtless pics

[boston bean]

Why do men have nipples? What is their purpose?

[SummerSnow]

1. to put earrings on them?

[William769]

2. As a Gay man I could tell you, but it would be another nipple hide.

[Glorfindel]

3. shhhh....we have to keep a FEW secrets amongst ourselves

just sayin'...

[arcane1]

10. Wait, is that normaly only a gay thing? Am I doing it wrong?

[William769]

11. There is no right or wrong. If it feels good, just do it!

[arcane1]

12. NOW you tell me!

[petronius]

4. I use mine when I need to count something in base-12 and I don't

have enough fingers. Also, they're useful in cross-country navigation - I just point them at the place I want to go, and then follow them. Isn't that what everyone uses them for?

[Kaleva]

5. Because all human embryos start out with them

Some animals have evolved to the point where the males do not have nipples. Stallions and male mice are examples.

[Squinch]

6. Men can lactate!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-males-can-lactate/

Just another household task that they can do but pretend they can't.

[SummerSnow]

7. ok i looked it up...

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.....

http://menshealth.about.com/od/conditions/a/Nipples_Men.htm

[arcane1]

9. Yep, male genitalia are just distorted versions of female genetalia

It's actually quite cool!

[roamer65]

8. Men have nipples too!!!