From Andrew McFarland
When discussing the female prostate, Elaine Morgan draws a comparison between it and human male nipples, which she describes as “functionless” analogues of the female version (4 July, p 24). This fails to take male sexual function into account.
Male nipples do not have the child-rearing function of female nipples, but to brand them as functionless because of that means that we should regard post-menopausal sexual relationships and homosexual relationships as functionless. In humans, sex isn’t just about reproduction and in both sexes the nipples are an erogenous zone. Their stimulation can play a significant role in sex, so you can hardly call them “functionless”.
Belfast, UK
