Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Written by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg
Narrated by Mark Leyner
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Finally, answers to all those strange questions you'd like to ask your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do so. If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .
- How do people in wheelchairs have sex?
- Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake too fast?
- Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?
- Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
- Why do old people grow hair on their ears?
- Is the old adage ""beer before liquor, never sicker, liquor before beer. . .,"" really true?
. . .then Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for you.
Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician, and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist, Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities of our bodies.
Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner is the author of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist; Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog; I Smell Esther Williams; Et Tu Babe; and The Tetherballs of Bougainville. He has written scripts for a variety of films and television shows. His writing appears regularly in The New Yorker, Time, and GQ.
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Reviews for Why Do Men Have Nipples?
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5meh. the authors are not nearly as funny as they ehink they are. all the answers could have been found via google if one were so inclined. I was expecting more of a novel or collection of short stories/essays recounting the various drunken encouters with their "patients". Instead it's just a collection of everyday questions and answers. One positive thing I learned and I must admit I'm relieved; should I ever be in the mood, I will NOT die from eating pop rocks and drinking soda. Suh-Weet!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I don't remember when I read this, but it was definitely one of the early popsci books that hooked me.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Short, irritating, and nearly devoid of interesting, or even titillating, information. The framing story is awful. Luckily, it only lasts an hour.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I love trivia books but I couldn't get through this one. My first issue was that the authors didn't take themselves seriously. I didn't want jokes. I actually wanted to know the answers. By the second issue, which made me stop reading, was that some of the answers were wrong. "Why does your pee smell when you eat asparagus?" Is an old answer to the question. The more recent research showed that everyone's pee smells, but that only some people have the ability to detect the smell. Once I realized they got that answer wrong, I figured why read on, they might be giving me wrong information.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Unimpressive. Most of this I already know from former career as x-ray tech, and common sense. Could have been better IMO.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Another book I'd rather have skimmed in the bookstore than actually owned, but this came my way as a Christmas gift a few years ago. It was interesting, and I learned a few things I probably could have easily googled myself if I'd actually had questions about, but it's by no means worth a re-read and could have been at least 50 pages shorter.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A tongue-in-cheek look at many medical questions people are afraid to openly ask. The chapter openers were rather of unnecessary, yet the IM conversations were fun but could have done without the awkward timestamps.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was the first (of many) books given to me by my fiance (then boyfriend). I think I had specifically asked him this question. I was aware of this book, but had yet to check it out. So I believe he gave this to me for my birthday that year. And of course I devoured it. Super interesting.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Amusing fluff..very much a bathroom reader. Book would have progressed along far better without the interweaves of conversation between authors before the chapters.(Skipped all of them.)
Good for a laugh and a few 'hmmm' moments. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The medical stuff was fairly good - the dialog between the two authors added little of value to the book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5like this review, it's short.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is both amusing and informative. A few of the questions weren't really fully answered to my satisfaction, but I did pick up quite a few fun facts. I found the chat intermissions a little annoying at first, but I soon grew used to them and relaxed into the humour break. This book is well worth reading and I will be looking up their other books at some point in the future.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Another book I'd rather have skimmed in the bookstore than actually owned, but this came my way as a Christmas gift a few years ago. It was interesting, and I learned a few things I probably could have easily googled myself if I'd actually had questions about, but it's by no means worth a re-read and could have been at least 50 pages shorter.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the different questions and answers in the book. I thought that the chat in between questions was funny and way to break up a book so there was a little more of a story to it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5With chapters like - You are what you eat, Body Oddities, All you (n)ever wanted to know about sex, Can I treat it myself?, Drugs and Alcohol, Bathroom humor, Medicine from the movies and tv, Old Wives’ tales, and Getting older – there were no shortage of cocktail party questions to answer.Why do you cry when you cut onions? An answer involving enzymes, amino acids, and ending with a reliable remedy of . . . ordering takeout. Is red wine really good for your health? An answer about research, “the French Paradox”, and studies of the health benefits, and ending with … “So drink a whole bottle tonight. Your bed will spin but you probably won’t have a heart attack.”And there you have it. Mostly real medical-ish answers followed by schoolboy humor. Lame. 2.2 stars
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very humorous. The answers were easy to comprehend and actually made sense. I've always wondered why people get the munchies when high!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is one of those fun little books full of trivia. The authors present a number of strange medical questions (admit it, you've wondered about one or two of them), and the answers. The only downside of this book is the IM banter-annoying, pointless, and yet refered to often enough within the text to actually need to read it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although the facts are interesting the link pieces are annoying at best and truly disjointed at worst, I suppose it's ment to show the mind-set and how they link from one issue to another but a few more interesting factoids would have been more fun for me.Sans link pieces and with more facts they would have probably scored a 4 or more.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Long at 217 large-print pages, this unfunny humor book – padded with IM exchanges between the authors in which they discuss, apparently presciently, how much money they're going to make with this drivel. The answers are usually underexplained and sometimes nonsensical. Z. opened it at random to the question "do men need sex more than women?" to which their answer is "yes," because MRIs showed that men were aroused more than women by pictures of people having sex. Z. pointed out that, since they didn't have women read erotica, all that proved was that things that arouse men more than women arouse men more than women. And of course, even had the study actually shown that men want sex more than women, need wouldn't have much to do with it – I have yet to hear of a man actually dying of blue balls. Though it would be funny, unlike this book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The actual facts are very interesting, though the explanations are usually succinct to the point of being boring. More elaboration would have been nice. The side conversations between the authors and their friends was occasionally amusing, though it usually bordered on inane.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I wish I'd been the editor on this one. The question-answer part of the book was excellent and fun....Who came up with the idea to insert little sideboxes with conversations between the authors? Was it strictly to fill up space? That's certainly what it felt like. I'd have liked more question-answers and less inane chit-chat.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5You know…I got this book because I saw more than a few rave reviews of it on the 50 Book Challenge community…and boy am I glad that I got this from the library and didn’t pay for it or use up a book credit on PBS. For the most part, I knew the answers to the questions already. For the ones I would have been interested in knowing more about, the answers were of the “no one really knows” variety and the remaining few were just not really answered, the question was avoided totally with some humor and they moved on quite quickly. It has a few laugh out loud moments, but mostly it wasn’t at all what the title promises it to be. The questions and answers, while humorously asked and answered are not REALLY answered in most cases or the answers are extremely vague to the point of being inane and useless. It wasn’t an awful read…but if it had taken more than a couple of hours to read this, I’d be pissed…it’s shallow, vague and utterly obvious that the editor/publisher did a pretty slick job with the title and cover, because those are about the most enticing things about Why do Men Have Nipples? I wouldn’t recommend it, except maybe as a quick, slightly amusing read…it’s not REALLY going to answer any of those questions that you’ve got wandering around in the back of your head…and the one’s it does, you probably already know the answer to or there is no answer. This book is annoying in the way that those Discover Channel specials that claim to tell you the secret of the Bog People or some other such unknowable thing…when all they are really doing is presenting all the evidence and then telling you no on REALLY knows…I hate that. The title of the book (like the title of these types of programs) promise one thing, but deliver something significantly different…interesting and informative (or entertaining…and sometimes all three), but not really delivering what was promised. C-
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I picked this book up a couple of years ago because the title was just too good to pass up. "Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini" was a quick and hilarious read. Fascinating questions like "Why does sweat stink and stain?" and "Why do people seem more attractive to you when you are drunk?" are just two of the burning questions presented. Surprisingly enough, the answers (OK MOST of the answers) are truly given from the medical point of view. After reading this book, I can only wonder at the parties the author/s have been going to. Of course, having occasionally (in the far, far past of course) fallen victim to tipsy (OK, drunken) ponderings, maybe I can understand...but I would hope I'd never ask a stranger. If you enjoy this book (and I certainly did, as did my teenagers) then you need to pick up the sequel "Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex? More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour."
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hillarious book that answers all of life's embarrassing questions.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Does not give even a speculative answer!