Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
by Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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I 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 show more 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." show less
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 show more 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." show less
I 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.
I enjoyed the answers to the questions. Sometimes you don't think to ask why your body does certain things. I did not like the format though and found myself skipping over the chat sessions between the two authors that were included as they were boring. I didn't want to read two people having a chat, while funny to the chatters, the humour is generally lost to those peering in from outside. This book would have been better without the little asides.
A 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.
Much like their podcast, they get really off track. Lots of good and amusing answers, but also a good bit of stuff that seemed to just be there as a joke starter, with no actual explanations.
Long 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 show more it – I have yet to hear of a man actually dying of blue balls. Though it would be funny, unlike this book. show less
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 show more it – I have yet to hear of a man actually dying of blue balls. Though it would be funny, unlike this book. show less
The 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.
The side conversations between the authors and their friends was occasionally amusing, though it usually bordered on inane.
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- Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
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- 2005
- Dedication
- This book is dedicated to all those special doctors who inspired us:
Dr. Marcus Welby, Dr. Dre, Dr. Seuss, Dr. Cliff Huxtable, Dr. J, Dr. Scholl's, Dr. Phil, Dr Pepper, Dr. Strangelove, Doc Baker, Dr. Who, Dr. Doolittle, ... (show all)Dr. Johnny Fever, Doc Gooden, Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jekyll, Dr. John Rooney, Dr. Kildare, Dr. Hibbert, Dr. No, Dr. Zhivago, Dr. Ruth, Dr. Evil, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Dr. Ben Casey, Doc Holliday, Dr. Doogie Howser, and the fight Dr., Ferdie Pacheco. - First words
- Preface:
How did Mark Leyner and I come to know each other and pursue this heroic project, Why Do Men Have Nipples?
Introduction:
When you're at a cocktail party, someone inevitably asks you what you do for a living.
Chapter 1:
It's 10 P.M., and my partner in writing and crime, Mark Leyner, and I are late as usual, but the party is in full swing.
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