# How common is female nipple hair? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 28, 2013, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161 "2013-03-28T06:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lightlystarched](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Lightlystarched](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightlystarched)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/41 "2013-03-29T01:27:57Z")
I am a 43 yo blonde female. I have 5-6 dark hairs that grow in random places on my breasts. I pluck them as soon as they are long enough to grab with tweezers. Along with the 1 chest hair, 2 grey chin hairs, and 4-5 bellybutton hairs that show up regularly. ---
**Author:** ![LouLou7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LouLou7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouLou7)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/42 "2013-03-29T01:39:59Z")
Yes, it is not only normal, it is NECESSARY for women to have dark nipple hair. Most anthropologists agree that nipple hair on the female breast developed when aboriginal tribal women breastfed their babies well into their teen years. The nipple hair provided a means for the children to not only get nourishment, but to floss their teeth at the same time. You’re welcome! LouLou ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/43 "2013-03-29T03:42:43Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > One second… BRB… Honey! Come here for a second, please… **ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!** It has been _13 HOURS 15 MINUTES_! WHAT COULD **JBDivmstr** BE DOING WITH HIS WIFE’S BARE BREASTS FOR THIS LONG!?!?!? Someone is going to have to go in after him! I volunteer. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/44 "2013-03-29T03:46:40Z")
> [@LouLou7](#): > > Yes, it is not only normal, it is NECESSARY for women to have dark nipple hair. Most anthropologists agree that nipple hair on the female breast developed when aboriginal tribal women breastfed their babies well into their teen years. The nipple hair provided a means for the children to not only get nourishment, but to floss their teeth at the same time. > > You’re welcome! > > LouLou Really? Do you know a website or something where I could learn more about this? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/45 "2013-03-29T04:00:04Z")
I for one am no longer purchasing dental floss, now that I know my other options! ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/46 "2013-03-29T04:13:19Z")
I thought that’s what pubes were for! ---
**Author:** ![LouLou7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a87d85/32.png) [@LouLou7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouLou7)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/47 "2013-03-29T04:31:32Z")
> [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > Really? Do you know a website or something where I could learn more about this? No, you filthy pervert. I suspect you are only interested in this for nasty, lacivious purposes, so I will not encourage your dirty thoughts. If, on the other hand, you are asking for genuine anthropological curiosity-type reasons, I may reconsider and tell you where the secret website for hairy nipples is. May cost you $14.95 per minute to research the website, however. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/48 "2013-03-29T06:17:10Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > **ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!** > > It has been _13 HOURS 15 MINUTES_! > WHAT COULD **JBDivmstr** BE DOING WITH HIS WIFE’S BARE BREASTS FOR THIS LONG!?!?!? > > Someone is going to have to go in after him! I volunteer. Sorry for the delay. 😃 It was, to say the least, a very \*thorough \*examination. 😉 No, my SO does _ **not** _ have any ‘nipple’ hairs. Nor, has she ever had them. (According to her.) And just to give a non-snarky response… The very first time that I observed this ‘phenomenon’, I was only 19 and my lady friend was 24. There were approx. 3-4 hairs around each nipple. They varied form 3/8" to a full 3/4" in length. (I’m a carpenter, I can guess lengths very accurately.) Apparently, she wasn’t one of the ‘pluck them when they become visible’ types. Personally, I found them rather sexy. 🆒 In the course of my life, I have been intimate with quite a few women of different ‘nationalities’, body types, etc. I’m also one that favors ‘doing it’ with the lights on (or at least, as much light as they’ll _let_ me leave on. 😛 ) With that said, over the years (35+) I’ve only come across a few (\>5) women that _ **had** _ visible hair around their nipples. Whether or not, the rest of them plucked them, I can’t say. Or rather, I was too much of a gentleman, to ask. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![listedmia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e0b2c6/32.png) [@listedmia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/listedmia)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/49 "2013-03-29T08:49:43Z")
> [@awldune](#): > > I’m a guy, but this is typical of the female boobs I’ve encountered (assuming you meant _around_ the areolae rather than _on_ them). There are some hairs, but few enough they can be easily plucked. Nope, some of them are on the areolae. Very near the edge, but on the pink part. I really hope my fiance doesn’t wake up right now and wonder why I’m staring at my boobs with a flashlight… ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/50 "2013-03-29T13:10:58Z")
> [@JBDivmstr](#): > > I’ve only come across a few (\>5) women that _ **had** _ visible hair around their nipples. Hmmmm. Nipple hair or no nipple hair, none of my partners has ever let me come across her. Common though it may be in porn, they’ve all told me it’s too demeaning. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/51 "2013-03-29T14:43:09Z")
> [@Incubus](#): > > There is a “Hairy Women” genre which, I’m sure if you look you can find hairy nipples pretty easily assuming it is not obscured by massive crotch 'fro. 😛 …If your _nipples_ are obscured by your _crotch_ fro, I might advise you to at least trim. Good gods. That being said, I am in love with the term “crotch fro” now and intend to use it forthwith. Aaaaaaaaa! First on the second page. I hate that. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/52 "2013-03-29T14:54:01Z")
My first girlfriend, a brunette, had hair on her nipples. There were a few strandseach. I wouldn’t call them hairy. She did have hairy arms, though. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/53 "2013-03-29T15:44:02Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > It’s probably as common as having a snail trail, for women. Do I want to know? > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Pretty much every dark haired woman whose breasts I’ve seen close up in person (more than 10, fewer than 30) had at least a half-dozen visible hairs. Is that 10 to 30 _women_ or 10 to 30 _breasts_? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/54 "2013-03-30T08:10:55Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > …and how much female underarm hair do you see in porn? Quite a lot actually, it’s a common fetish. Google up “hirsute porn” or “ATK natural and hairy.” ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/55 "2013-03-30T08:20:01Z")
I don’t think it’s an all-too common occurrence, based on my experience with brunettes, blondes, and one redhead – maybe 30 women in all. Of those, I remember one woman (my first girlfriend). I don’t think any of the others had them. So what’s that? 3%? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/56 "2013-03-30T16:58:00Z")
Again though, that assumes that the women you’ve seen didn’t get them and just pluck them. How would you know? I get a couple around each nipple, and pluck them as soon as they’re long enough. No biggie. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/57 "2013-03-30T17:46:40Z")
> [@gracer](#): > > The variation will work the same way it does for other parts of the body. It’s probably as common as having a snail trail, for women… > [@CurtC](#): > > Do I want to know?.. What’s that question for a definition of “snail trail” or for a verification cite? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/58 "2013-03-30T18:02:24Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Yeah, I had three or four in my twenties. Six or seven in my late thirties. We’re not talking about a pelt here, but definitely a bit of an increase with age. 🙂 Can they be woven into a decorative tea cozy ? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/59 "2013-03-30T18:06:39Z")
> [@CurtC](#): > > Do I want to know? It’s nothing horrendous. Just the little line of hair that goes from your crotch to your belly button. Everyone has one, pretty much. Men more pronounced than women usually. In some women it’s barely visible at all. That’s what I mean by the variation working the same way: there is definitely some hair there, in some women there is a little more and in some it is a little darker. Many women remove the hair, so you wouldn’t even know. Women with a more pronounced snail trail are probably more likely to also have more pronounced hairs around their nipples. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161/60 "2013-03-30T18:10:01Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Not the sort of thing that tends to come up in casual conversation, is it? It happens that my ex is curently staying at my place. She’s sleeping at the moment, but I’ll demand to be told the truth as soon as she’ll wake up ! :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-common-is-female-nipple-hair/654161.md?page=4)