For a long, long time, I was very embarrassed of having brown nipples! I know, this sounds crazy, but I truly did find the mention of their tint to be blush-inspiring. I even wrote a whole monologue once about how I had learned early on that pink nipples were the thing to have. In the naughty movies I snuck as a kid, all the women were white and all of them had pink nipples. Pink nipples were (and are) omnipresent. So, imagine little 7-year-old breast fetishist me soaking up all these nipple images and quickly cataloguing what "sexy boobies" looked like. You can probably understand why I thought pink nipples ruled.
While in Thailand in June 2009 I went into Boots (a UK owned drugstore/toiletries place), and found on their shelf a cream that makes your nipples pink. Now, as you may or may not know, most people who aren't white have brown nipples.. some are cinnamony and some are almost purple-black, ranging from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. Yumm! This cream promised a "healthy" way to pink nipples: that pesky dark nipple skin would painlessly flake off revealing new "healthy" pink skin. Needless to say, I found this anthropologically fascinating but the breast activist side of me sighed a little sigh of sadness.
Thankfully, in talking to my friends about my brown nipples and in having brown-nipple loving fiends as partners, I got over my embarrassment. But what about Thai women who buy pink-nipple-making cream? Well, if they can read this, I say "love your brown nipples the way they are! They're hot!" And the next time you see a pair of chocolaty nips, take a moment to tell their owner that such a fine pair brings you closer to Jesus.
awesome
Vanessa Torres on Oct 05, 2010 08:58pm