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Body Oddities: Supernumerary / Extra Nipples; Polythelia

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NOTE: This thread addresses supernumerary nipples (alone). Supernumerary breasts or sets of breast tissues are addressed in this separate thread:

Body Oddities: Supernumerary Breasts (Extra / Accessory Breasts; Polymastia)
https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...sts-extra-accessory-breasts-polymastia.14549/
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For starters something that suprised me - I'll let them explain it:

LEX & TERRY FAN DEFORMITY OF THE WEEK
Lex & Terry proudly present!
Fan Deformity of the Week!

The debut L&T Fan Deformity of the Week is Scott of Jacksonville.

Scott called the show last week to tell L&T that he had a "nipple on the back of his leg (pierced) that was the result of a skin graft. L&T hung up on Scott thinking it was a goof.

Well, no it is not a goof. Scott came by the office after the show to prove that he was telling the truth.

Scott was the victim of a mobile home fire at the age of 15 and was burned over 85% of his body. To re-grow skin on his legs they, "Used skin from his chest in a skin graft," as Scott tells it. Hence when the skin grew, "A nipple grew too and I thought it was cool to pierce it," explains Scott.

Scott also claims that just like a real one, it gets hard to colder temps and "rubbing".

Congrats to Scott for being our very first Fan Deformity of the Week!

Source with pictures.
Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be accessed via the Wayback Machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/2004122...s-deformity-of-the-week/photos-deformity.html


Now I've read the medical textbooks on extra nipples and they can usually only occur on a general line from the arm pit through the nipple to the groin. Seeing one there is well..... freaky.
 
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Emps, where's the link about that bloke with a pierced nipple on his leg? It didn't seem to be in your post anywhere, and I really need to see a picture of it! :wow:

Carole
 
Carole, click on the word *Source* on emps' post.

I've just looked for the first time and it is well weird!
 
thanks, Q! I hope that chap doesn't start to lactate . . . :shock:

Carole
 
oh well, here's a place for Radio 1 DJ Jo Whileys' third nipple (with a photo of the scar on this link) I suppoe :shock:

Jo's third nipple
2 February 2005

Jo got a bit of a shock this week when she was told that a mole she had removed was actually a third nipple.

The story made the papers too (with all those Scaramanga comparisons), so we thought we'd give you a bit of an exclusive and show you a picture of the scar and the stitches.

We think it looks a bit like a caterpiller. Eeeew!
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I know of one chap with three nipples, though one seems imperfectly formed.

There used to be two chaps in my teenage circle of aquaintance, one of whom had one testicle and one of whom had three, I immediately suggested that they come to some arrangement to achieve normality, but they didn't seem keen.
 
I know of one chap with three nipples, though one seems imperfectly formed.

There used to be two chaps in my teenage circle of aquaintance, one of whom had one testicle and one of whom had three, I immediately suggested that they come to some arrangement to achieve normality, but they didn't seem keen.

Hmm, sounds as if you were acquainted with the Nazi party leadership!
 
I know of one chap with three nipples, though one seems imperfectly formed.

There used to be two chaps in my teenage circle of aquaintance, one of whom had one testicle and one of whom had three, I immediately suggested that they come to some arrangement to achieve normality, but they didn't seem keen.
Did the chap with 3 become a porn star?
 
When he was 12 Clive Dunn came very close to dying on the table while undergoing an operation to remove a third nipple. Little known fact, that.

I should've thought that was an extremely low-risk procedure...it seems reasonable to suggest that either surgeon and/or anesthetist must have been spectacularly incompetent.
 
Perhaps it wasn't a proper surgeon, just some bloke with a Black & Decker Workmate and an orbital sander.
 
Now that is clever! I'd always assumed any extra nipples would be, shall we say, non-functional.

(You'd probably have been alright as long as you weren't using it to nurse a cat named after a biblical demon, or whatever) :D
 
Heh, I can relate.
I have an extra nipple of which I'm proud as it produced milk when I lactated for my babies.
Used to think, this would've had me accused of witchcraft! :eek:
That's too cool :cool: ...

I've never been a Family Guy fan ... but there's this vid as well ... men get them just as often it seems .. maybe this thread should be moved to Human Conditions on second thoughts..

 
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In the 70's I was in a consciousness-raising group (how 70's!) with a woman who had a third nipple. It was small and undeveloped like a pre-pubescent child's nipple, just below one of her "real" breasts. We revealed a lot to each other in that group.
 
I should've thought that was an extremely low-risk procedure...it seems reasonable to suggest that either surgeon and/or anesthetist must have been spectacularly incompetent.
I don't know much about medical matters but I bet it bleeds like buggery when you remove a nipple... Anyway I read an article once about supernumerary nips which suggested that they can appear anywhere on a line from roughly under your arms down your chest to level with your naval. Many folk have them and don't realise because they are so small and malformed they think they're moles or they don't appear on the surface at all. It's just a leftover of evolution.
 
... It's just a leftover of evolution.

.. that was my theory road as well ... other mammals have teats or nipples but they both do the same thing in providing milk to babies ... so when people grow third nipples (men as well strangely
although they don't lactate), is that a genetic throw back to when 'litters' of new borns were more common perhaps that we've evolved from? ..
 
.. that was my theory road as well ... other mammals have teats or nipples but they both do the same thing in providing milk to babies ... so when people grow third nipples (men as well strangely
although they don't lactate), is that a genetic throw back to when 'litters' of new borns were more common perhaps that we've evolved from? ..
Possibly a throw back, or could just be a wrong instruction to grow a nipple somewhere there wouldn't ordinarily be one. As far as males having nipples is concerned, the explanation usually rolled out to us is that nipples develop in an embryo before sex is determined, except in the rat, apparently, which is the only male mammal without nipples. Or it could be the only male placental mammal without nipples, since I seem to remember the platypus just sweats milk without having nipples, mammary glands being just modified sweat glands.

EDIT And as far a male lactation is concerned, it's been documented in several mammals, ourselves included. And newborn babies of both genders produce neonatal milk, also called 'witch's milk', which can be used by witches to feed their familiars, presumably if their third nipple is cracking or sore. I had no idea this topic would be so interesting. I should still be asleep, yet here I am googling male lactation.
 
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And newborn babies of both genders produce neonatal milk, also called 'witch's milk', which can be used by witches to feed their familiars, presumably if their third nipple is cracking or sore. I had no idea this topic would be so interesting. I should still be asleep, yet here I am googling male lactation.

Take my next answer with a pinch of salt because it was an add on to a question in a pub quiz I went to at college .. and the quizzer could have been telling the truth .. he stated that all (human) baby boys are able to produce semen in the first week of their lives but then can't again until puberty ... interesting stuff although I'm wary of researching that on the internet in case the police come knocking on my door ... When the quizzer told that to the pub teams, some wit shouted out with"What? .. you mean I've missed a whole week!" :rofl: .... so anyway, if anyone fancies getting a computer virus on my behalf by researching this, I'd be interested to know if it's true or not.
 
The Austrian case cited in this newly-started thread:

https://forums.forteana.org/index.p...-tissue-located-elsewhere-on-ones-body.65968/

... provides the first general explanation I've ever seen for such additional features. It turns out that ectopic breast tissues can thrive and even be functional in other parts of the body.

This passage from the article cited in that thread seems particularly relevant ...

About 1% to 5% of female infants are born with ectopic or "accessory" breast tissue, but it's very rare to find this tissue in the vulva, the report said. Most commonly, ectopic breast tissue occurs in the armpit area. In some cases, women have additional breast tissue with nipples or areola (the pigmented area surrounding the nipple), but in other cases, the breast tissue alone is present, without nipples or areola. ...

SOURCE: https://www.livescience.com/65695-woman-lactates-from-vulva.html
 
ln my attempts to confirm a hazy memory that Anne Boleyn had three nerps, l stumbled across an entire blog devoted to the issue: The Superfluous Nipple.

If l die unexpectedly, will somebody please delete my browser history?

maximus otter
 
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