Nipples and hair
 

There's nothing like a generalization to start a discussion... So here's one I came up with.

Guys tend to have hair AROUND their nipples, girls tend to have hair ON their nipples.

Is this true, partly true, or complete bullshit? Have I simply had a few too many experiences with neanderthal women? Alternatively - do those nipples that come without hair get pre-plucked (prior to being exposed to us guys).

BTW, by nipples, I think I really mean areola. That seems to be the main trouble area. For girls. My chest hairs seem to carefully avoid the area though. Are my nipples perhaps... infertile.

Total BS.

Think: Why do both genders have nipples? Oh-yeah. Design evolution.

(insert long scientific babble about gender selection in the womb)

God likes hair.

Traction.

You've met a girl with hairy nipples?


I'm not sure how I feel about this.

I have never heard of hairy nipples. And I'm going to resist the urge to look and see if I have any. One of those "you dropped your pocket" type things.

I have very little hair around my nips, but when I find a strand, I jusk like to pluck it out with my fingers.

Never heard about the opposite gender's tendecy for hair in the area.
Where did you happen upon this generalization?

I have encountered many women with hair on their nipples. Most are ashamed of it and pluck.

As for the issue of on vs. around? I have no idea. I need a large sample size... if there are some women who'd care to offer their breasts up for comparison, I am game.

No hair. And I'm not taking pictures. You'll have to take my word for it.

Ditto.

I've got hair around my nipples... if I let it it'll grow pretty long, but I trim it just like downstairs.

I kind of have a toned down version of the Austin Powers thing going on...



I like it.

I've had the rare hair pop up around my nipples, and I just pluck it out if I notice one. I mean of course I have that layer of peach fuzz all over my body that we all have, but I'm talking the occasional noticeable hair. As for it being ON the actual nipple, I don't know if that's possible, I don't think the actual nipple part has hair follicles or not (?). But yes, the aerola would be where those hairs pop up. Maybe the reason men tend to have hair pop up around the aerola area would be because the actual area of the aerola is so small and it's just a matter of it being less likely to pop up in a smaller area? I dunno.

Any time someone brings up a topic I don't know squat about, I google it...there's a forum called Hairy Chat. Doesn't shed any light on the theory, but it's interesting....
Much as I love a hairy chest(on guys), I never noticed where it ends or if it continues into the nipples...

Hairs on the areolas? Yup, I got 'em. Areolas are part of our skin, and hair grows on almost every square inch of skin. I thought everyone had that kind of hair... at least, everyone with hair dark enough to show up (all of mine is dark brown).

I don't care about those hairs very much (I spend more time, if I do spend time at all, on plucking my eyebrows 1-2x a week, shaving my legs even less often :p), and my husband certainly doesn't care, either. I can't even think of whether or not his areolas have hair on them or not... it just doesn't matter. I suppose if we ever do notice, we have some fun yanking them out... but we're weird like that. :D

Hmmm, with the right person, you could have great sex AND be practicing good oral hygiene at the same time!

Oh, sorry. I don't have anything to submit to the research at hand....

Charlatan,

Hey, bro... you struck out. I, however, have some pictures for your research.

...

That and I need the beer money.

In my case, I hope that whatever hair that comes will sprout in the right places. So far its been pretty sporatic.

I'm a freakin hairy guy. I got a little merry go round of hair on my chest. wanna ride? mwuahaha. ;)

I notice it's more the skinnier girls that have hair on their nipples, but I'm sure it's an aesthetic thing where some pluck it.

Better one hair on the nipple than all the hair on a dark haired italian girls forearm...

or a jewish girls...like Sarah Silverman.

Jesus is not magic when you look at her arms.

I just pictured babies nation-wide coughing up hairballs. It made me laugh. Take that babies.

Well there's hair all around em on me, but when I part the hair theres none actually on the nipple. And I've yet to actually see hair on a females nipples, although as stated before a larger sampling wouldn't hurt...

prolly used to be a guy.....

I'm a guy, I have hair on my chest, on the line, and a single hair on the right side that decided to jump the line over to nipple territory. The ones immediately around the nipple grow about twice as long as the rest of my chest hair, so I pull them out.

Personally, I've never really paid much attention to my body hair. I'm not upset by it, nor am I attached to it, unless you count the follicles. So I've never really spent a lot of time mapping exactly where it does and does not grow. I have hair in the usual places.

As to my nipples, there doesn't seem to be any hair actually on them, although there is sparse, coarse hair all around them and it's hard to be sure. I don't think I've ever encountered hair on a girl's nipples, at least not that I noticed. I can't imagine being freaked out by it unless it's like gorilla boobs. A hair or two... well, if I end up with hair in my teeth while getting naughty I'll probably just assume it's from muff diving anyway.

:lol:

Here I thought hairy nipps was a "myth" that started and died during my middle/high-school years in the '80's. I admit as a teen I was so mortifyed I might have them that I scrutinized mine w/ a magnifying glass, and was relieved I was hair free.

Twenty years later because of this thread, I re-examined my boobs and even though I have med-dark hair on my head and pubes, I only found one peach fuzz hair on my left areola. Nothing on the nipple's themselves.

Ala Mythbusters, I would say "plausible" for some women, but for the vast majority "busted".

Ali

I have hair on my nips & none around.

I dated a woman a few years ago with more than a few hairs on her nipples. I thought it was sexy as all get out, but perhaps that's just me...

I have one hair on my left. Just one.