{"id":33027,"date":"2017-04-09T19:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T18:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/?p=33027"},"modified":"2017-04-11T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T10:35:10","slug":"revealed-this-is-why-your-pens-and-nipples-are-darker-than-the-rest-of-your-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/revealed-this-is-why-your-pens-and-nipples-are-darker-than-the-rest-of-your-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: THIS IS WHY YOUR PEN*S AND NIPPLES ARE DARKER THAN THE REST OF YOUR SKIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/man-in-bed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/man-in-bed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/man-in-bed.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/man-in-bed-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered why your pen*s and nipples are darker than the rest of your skin?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of race, a person&#8217;s pen*s and nipples are naturally a shade or two deeper in colour than the rest of their skin and this is linked to the effects of sex hormones produced during puberty.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts, sex hormones produced during puberty stimulates the production of melanin &#8211; the amino acid responsible for hair and skin colour which results in the darkening of the skin on a man&#8217;s pen*s and nipples and a woman&#8217;s areolas and labia to darken.<\/p>\n<p>However, experts also reveal that medical conditions such as hormonal or sugar imbalance as seen in those with diabetes can also contribute to the darkening of one&#8217;s genitals.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lindsey Bordone told <strong><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/strong>: &#8220;Your skin can darken in certain areas when your sugars are very high and developing diabetes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A person generally has lighter pigmentation all over their skin during childhood regardless of race. Sex hormones during puberty then stimulates the production of melanin thereby causing a change in pigmentation.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bordone added: &#8220;When girls are young, their nipples are light. And as they get older, hormones have an effect and the nipples darken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very similar for boys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Women experience an increase in the production of estrogen during puberty while men experience an influx of testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>These hormones (estrogen in women and testosterone in men) regulate melanocytes, which are skin cells that produce melanin.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Cameron Rokhsar told <strong><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/strong>: &#8220;Hormones regulate the way melanocytes produce their pigments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those can have an effect on the way the skin in that area pigments, so generally that area is darker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>External factors such as friction can also affect pigmentation after puberty according to experts. This is because the skin naturally thickens to protect itself when it experiences friction.<\/p>\n<p>Experts also revealed to <strong><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/strong> that genital darkening also occurs in men who wear tight clothing, shave their genitals or experience an itch or infection that results in rubbing and scratching.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Phil<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered why your pen*s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2584],"tags":[2688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33028,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33027\/revisions\/33028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcrema.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}