Talk:Areola
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I just say news on Discovery Channel that while it was previously accepted that the breast contains 15 to 20 milk ducts, it's now revealed there is an average of nine milk ducts, with some women having just four.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050620/breast.html has the details.
Someone who writes better than me should update this. I will see if I can match writing style and include it, but this would be my first edit. I'll check back in a week.
-foebea
[edit] Period
Do the areola, lips, etc. change sizes periodically according to the menstrual cycle?
[edit] women in Japan statement?
The statement that women in Japan needs, I believe, to be updated to include this:
"There is a Japanese folk belief that the more sexually active a woman is, the darker her nipples become." Miller, Laura, 'Mammary Mania in Japan', Positions 11(2):271-300(2003)
This statement is found on page 292 of this article. The journal title is 'Positions'.
Perhaps the statement about "aging" being the cause of nipple darkening needs a citation.
Damnforms 06:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)damnforms
- Regular arousal definitely swells them, but I have no idea on whether they get darker... Demf 05:18, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
