For a long time, nipple was a dirty word. It's sort of onomatopoetic. The double p reminds me of the sound a nipple makes when it pops out of a mouth or maybe the little bounce it makes as it exits. I think most words that begin with "ni" have a bit of a taboo. And then there's the combination of letters "pple" that sounds like "pull," which is a great thing to do with a nipple.
In any event, for a long, long time, I was very embarrassed of having brown nipples! I know, this sounds crazy, but I truly did find the mention of their tint to be blush-inspiring. I even wrote a whole monologue once about how I had learned early on that pink nipples were the thing to have. In the naughty movies I snuck as a kid, all the women were white and all of them had pink nipples. Pink nipples were (and are) omnipresent. So, imagine little 7-year-old breast fetishist me soaking up all these nipple images and quickly cataloguing what "sexy boobies" looked like. You can probably understand why I thought pink nipples ruled.
Just last week (again, while in Thailand) I went into Boots (a UK owned drugstore/toiletries place), and found on their shelf a cream that makes your nipples pink. Now, as you may or may not know, most people who aren't white have brown nipples.. some are cinnamony and some are almost purple-black, ranging from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. Yumm! This cream promised a "healthy" way to pink nipples: that pesky dark nipple skin would painlessly flake off revealing new "healthy" pink skin. Needless to say, I found this anthropologically fascinating but the breast activist side of me sighed a little sigh of sadness.
Thankfully, in talking to my friends about my brown nipples and in having brown-nipple loving fiends as partners, I got over my embarrassment. But what about Thai women who buy pink-nipple-making cream? Well, if they can read this, I say "love your brown nipples the way they are! They're hot!" And the next time you see a pair of chocolaty nips, take a moment to tell their owner that such a fine pair brings you closer to Jesus.
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Masking or concealing dark nipples, or big nipples, or puffy or pointy nipples is a sublimation of sex's fundamental truth: It is WILD and UNTAMABLE.
Sure little pink nipples are elegant, refined, and delicate. But those are words used to describe a tea service.
Ripe, formidable nipples are a profound erotic force. Encompassing a woman's sexuality and sensuality. Her lushness and fecundity.
I've been lucky enough to find women who accept, embrace and even love their extraordinary nipples. But nothing's sadder than a magnificent woman who hates her breasts because her nipples contradict her self-image.
Amen, Adam.
And the word fecundity makes my thigh tingle!
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