# Women, do your nipples get hard when you sneeze? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669 "2001-10-05T20:47:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GodImStupid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@GodImStupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GodImStupid)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/1 "2001-10-05T20:47:53Z")
What happens to your nipples when you sneeze? I’m sitting at work and just sneezed and for the first time I actually noticed that my nipples got hard, I think this always happens when I sneeze but didn’t pay attention to it. Does this happen to anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/2 "2001-10-05T20:55:15Z")
This is something I’d like to see! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/3 "2001-10-05T20:58:51Z")
Wow. Not that I’m aware of…but my nipples are pretty sensitive to wind and such, so the resulting sneeze-breeze would probably be enough to do it. I’ll monitor the situation closely and report back. ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/4 "2001-10-05T23:22:26Z")
Are you, by any chance, related to [this woman](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_191.html)? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/5 "2001-10-05T23:37:48Z")
Hmmmm… Perhaps I’ll bring lots and lots of black pepper to the New York Megadopefest. Purely for scientific purposes, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/6 "2001-10-05T23:52:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GodImStupid \* > \*\*Does this happen to anyone else? \*\* Yep. As sensitive as my nipples are, allergy season is lots o’ fun. ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/7 "2001-10-06T00:27:01Z")
I just made the spice rub for the pork tenderloins I’m cooking tonight and I will have to say yes. Yes, my nipples get hard when I sneeze. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/8 "2001-10-06T00:41:29Z")
**Sue,** darling, are you sure it wasn’t thinking about “tender loins” that made your nipples hard? Just a thought… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Angkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Angkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angkins)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/9 "2001-10-06T00:49:36Z")
Seems to me that I remember hearing a long long time ago…so there is a really good chance that this is crap…that a sneeze is kinda like a mini orgasm. The build up…then the release (although quick). Hmmmm…pass the pepper!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-do-your-nipples-get-hard-when-you-sneeze/85669/10 "2001-10-06T14:28:00Z")
In 70’s I read in Penthouse Xavier’s column she said it was something called ‘lock-nut-tit-out’ in otherwords, pushing the nipple out with your breath. I think she was full of crap.