Editing Nipple (section)

===Sexuality===
{{Main|Nipple stimulation}}

Nipples can be sensitive to touch, and [[nipple stimulation]] can incite [[sexual arousal]].<ref name="Harvey">{{cite book|first1=John H. |last1=Harvey |first2=Amy |last2=Wenzel |first3=Susan |last3=Sprecher|title=The Handbook of Sexuality in Close Relationships|publisher=[[Psychology Press]]|isbn=978-1135624705|page=427|date=2004|access-date=August 12, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qsl4AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA427}}</ref> Few women report experiencing [[orgasm]] from nipple stimulation.<ref name="Kinsey">{{cite book|first1=Alfred C. |last1=Kinsey |first2=Wardell B. |last2=Pomeroy |first3=Clyde E. |last3=Martin |first4=Paul H. |last4=Gebhard|title=Sexual Behavior in the Human Female|publisher=[[Indiana University Press]]|isbn=978-0253019240|page=587|date=1998|access-date=August 12, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JHWHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA587|quote=There are some females who appear to find no erotic satisfaction in having their breasts manipulated; perhaps half of them derive some distinct satisfaction, but not more than a very small percentage ever respond intensely enough to reach orgasm as a result of such stimulation (Chapter 5). [...] Records of females reaching orgasm from breast stimulation alone are rare.}}</ref><ref name="Boston">{{cite book|author=Boston Women's Health Book Collective|title=The New Our Bodies, Ourselves: A Book by and for Women|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=978-0684823522|page=575|date=1996|access-date=August 12, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFI4AQAAIAAJ|quote=A few women can even experience orgasm from breast stimulation alone.}}</ref> Before Komisaruk et al.'s [[Functional magnetic resonance imaging|functional magnetic resonance]] (fMRI) research on nipple stimulation in 2011, reports of women achieving orgasm from nipple stimulation relied solely on [[anecdotal evidence]].<ref name="Smith">{{cite book|author=Merril D. Smith|title=Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]]|isbn=978-0759123328|page=71|date=2014|access-date=August 12, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qrCCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA71}}</ref> Komisaruk's study was the first to map the female genitals onto the sensory portion of the brain; it indicates that sensation from the nipples travels to the same part of the brain as sensations from the vagina, clitoris and cervix, and that these reported orgasms are genital orgasms caused by nipple stimulation, and may be directly linked to the genital sensory cortex ("the genital area of the brain").<ref name="Smith"/><ref name="Lehmiller">{{cite book|author=Justin J. Lehmiller|title=The Psychology of Human Sexuality|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|isbn=978-1118351321|page=120|date=2013|access-date=August 12, 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQRgAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT120}}</ref><ref name="Komisaruk">{{Cite journal|author1-link=Barry Komisaruk|last1=Komisaruk |first1=B. R. |last2=Wise |first2=N. |last3=Frangos |first3=E. |last4=Liu |first4=W.-C. |last5=Allen |first5=K |last6=Brody |first6=S. |title=Women's Clitoris, Vagina, and Cervix Mapped on the Sensory Cortex: fMRI Evidence |journal=[[The Journal of Sexual Medicine]] |year=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02388.x |volume=8|issue=10|pages=2822–30 |pmid=21797981 |pmc=3186818}}
* {{cite news |author=Stephanie Pappas |date=August 5, 2011 |title=Surprise finding in response to nipple stimulation |work=CBS News |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/surprise-finding-in-response-to-nipple-stimulation/}}</ref>