Technically, the answer is “yes.” Men and women, after all, start off much the same in utero. That’s why men have nipples. Men do have milk ducts and some mammary tissue. Whether a man can produce enough milk to sustain an infant is unclear. Some male mammals do lactate. The Dayak fruit bat definitely lactates. Occasionally, male goats lactate (it is not clear on exactly what occasions. Perhaps holidays).
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The recent right wing wins in the Canadian elections seem to have had a negative impact on tolerance for the good things in life. The Puritans that run the parliamentary website have deemed cleavage to be unbecoming of a politician. Though this shouldn’t come as a surprise given that the supreme court wears chin high shirts to ensure against any possible cleavage.
Even though she is a member of the Canadian Parliament, at 29 Rathika Sitsabaiesan can easily be classified as one of the “kids these days” and prone to doing things like lingering on lawns or wearing shirts that dip below chin level. Continue reading
I once read an article that speculated that hormones given to cows are the reason that young girls are developing earlier and, uh, more amply. Either way, I was ahead of the curve (ha!) and gifted with a pair of assets that I sometimes am grateful for and sometimes curse for holding me back from accomplishing interesting things like being a ninja. Continue reading
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons released a comprehensive report of cosmetic surgery trends through 2010. With all the Real Housewives shows being so successful it’s not surprising that boob jobs are up 40% since 2000. But the really amazing increase is in a procedure called a “lower body lift“, up an astounding 4,550% since 2000. A lower body lift will cost you an average of $7,247. This is likely because the procedures that make up a lower body lift were all sold separately before but have now been conveniently bundled in recent years. Those procedures are a tummy tuck, thigh lift and butt lift.
One of the big losers is the hair transplant down 57% since 2000. Hair styles for men of diminished follicle fortitude has been the close cut or shaved head freeing them from having really terrible plugs that don’t look natural no matter what those late night TV commercials say. Collagen is also down (73%) now that people have seen the light on fish lips, or new materials come on the market. While boob jobs are almost universally popular they’re actually down 30% among women 55 and over.