After Sex and the City reruns and sleazy (oops, we mean steamy) books by booty icons Jenna Jameson and Pam Anderson, is there anything left to discover about America's favorite after-dark activity? Yes! Yes! Yes! Nicole Beland
Women have sex a lot--but still understand relatively little about what's really happening between the sheets. No, we don't mean where the body parts go. We mean more vexing matters. Like why do some things turn us on and some things turn us off? Why do our bodies work the way they do? And, of course, why do men have nipples?
Fortunately, there are people who know about these things — and we talked to a batch of them. Don't consider your sexual education complete until you know...
Man Nipples
Why aren’t we the only ones in the relationship with nipples? Because in the very first stages of life, every fetus starts out as a female. "Males only become males with the addition of greater amounts of testosterone, which suppresses the development of female sex organs," says Sandor Gardos, licensed sex therapist and founder of mypleasure.com. Hard evidence for that fact can be found about a quarter of the way down Johnny Depp's chest in the form of two round, pinkish milk ducts. Nearly all mammalian embryos are decked out with mammary tissue from the get-go in preparation for future motherhood. So behind Johnny's nipples lie the dusty, unused pipes and machinery that would have been used to breastfeed little Johnny Jr.
Fat Men In Speedos
There you are enjoying the sand, sun, and sound of the waves, when along strolls a Jack Black look-alike in a Speedo. As your eyes accidentally meet, he smiles and winks. He couldn't be more comfortable with his pudge and bulges. Meanwhile, you refuse to sit at a 90-degree angle for fear of a half-inch roll of fat appearing in your midsection. "There's a core contingent of guys who were taught to believe that a man's looks aren't anywhere near as important as his money or status," says Gloria Brame, Ph.D., a sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia. In other words, when Donald Trump looks in the mirror, he sees the male equivalent of Beyoncé staring back. Because these plus-size guys don't associate their self-worth with a six-pack, they don't care if the lights are on, the sheets are off, and the flesh is everywhere. But rather than criticize them for being out of shape, let's salute them as a dying breed of human who has yet to crack under all that pressure to look perfect.
Blue Balls
You've no doubt heard a guy complain of having "blue balls" after a night of frantic groping that didn't go all the way. He wasn't kidding. "It's possible for the scrotum to appear slightly blueish if a man has been aroused for a very long period of time," says Sandor Gardos, licensed sex therapist and founder of mypleasure.com. During arousal, blood fills the entire genital area and stays there for as long as a person remains turned on. The longer it's there, the less oxygen it has, and blood with less oxygen is more blue than red. The result: azure-tinted testicles.
Morning Wood
There it is again, all up-and-at-'em at 7 A.M. It's a wonder you bother using an alarm clock. "Men tend to awake with an erection in the morning because that's when their testosterone levels peak," says Sandor Gardos, licensed sex therapist and founder of mypleasure.com. Physically, his upstanding member is just as sensitive as ever, but because he isn't psychologically turned on, he may not feel any urge to put it to use. And if you do get it on in the early hours, expect a quickie — all that testosterone usually leads to a quick resolution.
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/sex-mysteries
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