Why Do Men Have Nipples
Why Do Men Have Nipples
Hundreds of Questions You’d Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini
by Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg M.D.
Three Rivers Press
No spoilers in this post. Sorry. Just lots of questions. The answers, I assure you, are in the book. Even the title is answered.
This is a great bathroom reader. Of all the books I’ve ever left laying around the house, this one has been picked up by more of my guests than any of them. I don’t know how many times I’ve had this, my own book, read to me.
Each of the nine chapters is filled with section after section that explain the things you’d ask a doctor if you had the time.
Chapter 1. You Are What You Eat
example: Why are you hungry after eating Chinese food?
Chapter 2. Body Oddities
example: Why do men have nipples? What are Goose Bumps?
Chapter 3. All You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Sex
example: Do oysters really make you horny?
Chapter 4. Can I Treat It Myself
example: Does urinating on a jellyfish sting stop the burn?
Chapter 5. Drugs and Alcohol
example: Can poppy seeds make you test positive for heroin?
Chapter 6. Bathroom Humor
example: Will you get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet too long? (I promised no spoilers but waiting to answer that until chapter six might be considered malpractice.)
Chapter 7. Medicine From the Movies and TV
example: Can you get scared to death?
Chapter 8. Old Wives’ Tales
example: Can you die from chasing Pop Rocks with Coke?
Chapter 9. Getting Older
example: What’s up with the ear hair?
About the Authors
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.
Billy Goldberg, M.D, is an emergency medicine physician on faculty at a New York City teaching hospital. He is also a writer and artist whose paintings have been exhibited in New York City