It may be that when you read the title of this article, more than one has immediately imagined a woman with more than two breasts.Well, first of all clarify that the politelia refers exclusively to the nipples, nipples of more that may appear in our body, but lacking mammary glands, and that usually resemble small moles or warts.Amazing but true.
Sometimes, genetics can play a subtle joke and give our body with more than two nipples that timidly accompany to the "owners". There are those He chooses that the surgery erase them from his body, but there are also people who accept this peculiarity and adorn them with subtle tattoos full of originality and sensuality.
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Politelia, when nature gives us more than two nipples
Let's give an example.Let's think about our pets, that bitch or that kitten you have at home.that you will have noticed the number of nipples they have, and how good it is for them when breastfeed their young, along all those breasts that cross, in two lines, their abdomen.tender and a biological sample of every creature belonging to mammals.
People, for our part, have only two nipples, of two mammary glands that, in the case of women, will serve to breastfeed their children.In general, most mammals develop even glands along what is known as «mamillary line». A line that we have both men and women and that goes from the clavicle to the groin, as you see in the drawing below.
It is, through these lines, where the breasts develop.The case of men are inactive nipples, which are not going to help them.But in women they are, as you know, functional.Well, you may now wonder: and why do we have two nipples? The number of mammary glands corresponds roughly to the number of offspring that each species usually has.
Normally, in mammals it ranges from 2 to 16 (in the case of pigs.) As a curiosity we will tell you that odd numbers are rarely given in mammals, but in fact it happens.The possum, for example, has 13 nipples .
But let's return to the central axis of the subject, why sometimes there are people who have 3 or 6 nipples? Through atavisms, it is a genetic disorder, in which, a vestigial organ emerges again, that is, a part of our body that has disappeared generations ago because it is no longer useful to us, as is the case with the human tail , a topic that we already discuss in Lifestyle.
It is known that politelia usually affects 5% of the population, and especially black people.It does not cause any problem, it is harmless.The only particularity , is that the person sees with some discomfort that has for example a small nipple next to the originals; something that aesthetically is not very well accepted.Therefore, we almost always opt for an intervention to eliminate them.But yes, there are those who show them with total pride decorating them with tattoos or piercings.
Also tell you that in ancient Greece and Rome, having more nipples than usual was considered a good thing.Fertility symbol.But the same thing did not happen in the Middle Ages, at which time to have a third nipple, it was an undeniable trait of witchcraft.Of someone who had that third organ to breastfeed the devil himself .Terrible, there is no doubt.
So as you see, the phenomenon of Politelia is quite frequent, curious but not as uncommon as We thought.And now tell us, What would you do? Would you undergo an operation to remove it or would you have those extra nipples?
Image: Matias Nicolas Queteimpo
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