8 things you need to know about your nipples
About breasts, buttocks, and G-spots, there is plenty written, but if there is ever a nipple gate during the Super Bowl, the whole world reacts. Nipples on Instagram? Don’t think so. They are immediately marked as spam. Nipples are just like a number two at the office taboo. We don’t talk about it. And so it’s time for change. Here are 8 things you need to know about your nipples.
Nipples have more than one opening
A case of ‘I didn’t even know that myself’. You only notice it when you start breastfeeding. A nipple has 15 to 20 small holes. Say whuuut.
Everyone has bumps on the areola
Also known as Montgomery glands. (Yes, that sounds like a Scottish duke). Be glad you have them, because they protect your nipples by secreting an oily substance to keep them soft and supple.
Do you know the ‘runner's nipple’ or ‘jogger's nipple’?
No? Be glad about that. If you don’t wear a good sports bra while jogging, it can happen that your nipples start to burn, leak, and bleed due to friction. Ouch.
Nipples come in all shapes, sizes, and colors
Light pink, bright red, dark brown: it all exists. Small, large, protruding, slightly indented, hey, you all get to be here, girls. The pigment in your nipples is usually related to your ethnic background and the rest of your skin color.
About that stray hair
Almost every woman encounters hairs around the nipple at some point. Sexy is different, but normal? Absolutely. It’s usually a result of changes in hormone levels. It can occur with a change in your menstruation or when you stop taking the pill or start.
There are people who have multiple nipples
One in eighteen people, in fact. Usually, the ‘extra’ nipple ends up somewhere else on the belly, but it could just as easily be on your foot. Mark Wahlberg and Lily Allen have openly talked about their extra nipple in the news. It doesn’t cause any harm and occurs more often than you think.
The sensitivity of nipples varies
Some find it fantastic when their nipples are stroked during sex, others find it too sensitive, and some women feel nothing at all. Again, everything goes, everything is allowed. Calm your nipples!
In case someone ever asks you why men have nipples…
Because all men started their early life as… a woman. At least as a female fetus. Only after six weeks is testosterone produced and sexual differentiation occurs. Hence the nipples. Who run the world? I thought so.
