Why Do Men Have Nipples?
If men can't nurse, then why do they have nipples? The answer has less to do with evolution and more to do with your personal development as a teeny tiny embryo. Short version: We're all girls...
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Nipples! We all got 'em. Obviously ladies need them to breastfeed babies, but why do us guys have them taking up valuable chest space? So we can have more body piercing options? Or so we can experience the special torture that is chafing while jogging? Or are they just there to... taunt hungry infants? Turns out, dudes have nipples because way back when we were tiny little embryos, we were actually girls. Sort of. You heard me tough guy. (Intro music) In our modern human bodies we have a number of vestigial features, like wisdom teeth that we don't need, and useless tailbones, but male nipples are different. They aren't left over from some evolutionary event in the past, when males used to breastfeed, they're artifacts of our own perso...
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Nipples! We all got 'em. Obviously ladies need them to breastfeed babies, but why do us guys have them taking up valuable chest space? So we can have more body piercing options? Or so we can experience the special torture that is chafing while jogging? Or are they just there to... taunt hungry infants? Turns out, dudes have nipples because way back when we were tiny little embryos, we were actually girls. Sort of. You heard me tough guy. (Intro music) In our modern human bodies we have a number of vestigial features, like wisdom teeth that we don't need, and useless tailbones, but male nipples are different. They aren't left over from some evolutionary event in the past, when males used to breastfeed, they're artifacts of our own perso...
