Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini

by Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner

Book Overview

Is There a Doctor in the House?Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400082315
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Highly entertaining, humerously written

If you are like me and are one of those curious types who is always wondering about stuff, but never wants to ask, this is your book. Without spoiling too much, why DO men have nipples? It is because in the beggining of development in the womb males and femals go through the exact same development. It is not until they are a while into it that the male genes kick in and start to affect the development.

Ask away!

A great book. In somewhat of a twist, it was actually one of my patients that recommended this book to me. As a physician practicing almost 25 years, I've heard a lot of these strange but interesting questions before--"Can my contact lens get stuck behind my eye?"--but others I've never met anyone with the gall to ask ("How do people in wheelchairs have sex?"). It's an interesting premise: there's tons of things people would like to know, but are too afraid to ask. Well, all of these questions are easily answered by a knowledgable person with a little medical experience. But it's the funny, fast-paced format of Leyner that makes this book a success. This is a terrific bookeasy to read, and if you still have questions, give me or your doctor a call.

Oily Fruits

Several books have (somewhat) helped me to figure out the crazy world we've all woken up to, ranging from the scientific, like How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space, to the tedious Imponderables® books, like When Do Fish Sleep. Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg have discovered the real questions that matter! The more enlightening (and surprising) questions relate to quotidian elements that we've more or less subconsciously suppressed the urge to wonder about. Or so we'll admit. In college, I had two professors (two old men who taught different aspects of Georgian Literature) who were hilarious and made difficult literature immensely enjoyable. Why Do Men Have Nipples (easy literature) wasn't written by those guys, but I would've hardly guessed it. You won't be forgetting some of the answers quickly. They'll make your next day at work unforgettable!

Doctors shouldn't cause so much pain

This book is hilarious! I can't recommend this enough. The questions that everyone asks, but no one answers. Just make sure you're not drinking milk while reading, or you'll be seeing one of the authors soon enough. . .

Funny and educational

"Why Do Men Have Nipples?" was big fun. I have to admit having had some of the sillier questions take up space in my head for years. You aren't going to find answers to life or definitive information on the origin of the universe here, just some of the more interesting facts we can't live without. This book had me laughing out loud, sometimes at the questions, sometimes because the question was ever asked in the first place. I am proud to say I already knew why your teeth chatter in the cold or with a fever (body trying to warm up) and sucking the poison from a snake bite wasn't such a good idea. I didn't know the average desk in the average workplace could kill you with the amount of germs and bacteria outnumbering those on the toilet seat. Think hand sanitizer for stocking stuffers this year!! There are hundreds more interesting and sometimes strange facts I didn't know but the team of Goldberg and Leyner has now educated me to the level of expert. I am not sure if that's something to be proud of or not but I laughed and laughed hard while reading "Why Do Men Have Nipples?" and I suggest it to anyone who might be tempted to accost a doctor outside of his office for answers to some of the more pressing questions you have about the human body. Recommended highly!