War on Nipples

This first article is about a woman who was told be a TSA agent that she had to remove her nipple rings to get on a flight. They have her a set of pliers. You’d think nipples rings would be common these days?

Related to the nipples. This is a picture of a poster for a wrestling where they airbrushed out the men’s nipples. It seems, kind of overkill to me. The people’s reasoning is that you can’t show any nipples on a poster, which isn’t true in that city, but still.

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Unfortunately, I think we have a while in this country before the newer generations get enough control to push a lot of this aside. It gets eroded over time, as people get used to the idea, but I sometimes wish it would be a lot faster, you know? I mean, nearly everyone has nipples. Why should they be such a horrible thing?

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[quote author=KK link=topic=907.msg3054#msg3054 date=1207327758] Nearly everyone? You mean there are humans who don’t? [/quote]

Actually, yeah. Some people lose them through things like mastectomies (removal of the breast typically due to cancer), some people are born with less than the normal two and some people are born with a couple extras (knew a guy with four nipples).

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Actually, we have about eight, but most of them have atrophied over the centuries. If you draw a curved line from the arm pit through the nipples we do have, then along the line of a “six pack” on the stomach, that is the line of nipples. That is why some overweight people get fat deposits that look like breasts. The nerve and fat clusters are already there.

One of the interesting sets of things I read is about variations in the human body. A friend of mine has the normal ten fingers, but that is a fluke in his family since most of them have six digits on one hand (and that specific mutation is a dominate trait).