It entirely depends on my mood. If I'm not warmed up at all, anything but the lightest kiss will be much too much. Don't touch my nipples if I'm not in the mood! But when I'm really aroused, I can really enjoy biting (though I get sore pretty fast and it can go from hot to a complete mood killer very quickly). I think that averages out to "moderate" but my preferences change a LOT! less

Mine aren't very sensitive. I've heard that the smaller they are the less sensitive they are and the more sensitive the clitoris is. This seems to be true for me, at least as far as less sensitive breasts go.

Touching them just feels weird and not pleasant. I just want to swat away any hands or mouth that touches them. Plus they're wired strangely. I feel it on the roof of my mouth when they're touched. less

I don't think that's the case. My wife is large - and she swears girls with saller breasts are more sensitive. The only time hers are sensitive is when she's PMS - then they are too painful to touch.

I just think it's a combination of biology and attitude. less

I also don't think there is much correlation between breast or nipple size and sensitivity. I have worked with women, and their breasts, from a Lactation Platform, for many years (more than 20) and I (and the research) has found that most of the myths regarding nipple sensitivity are usually wrong.

There are myths that redheads and blonds and women with creamy white or alabaster skin get sore nipples more easily and women with darker skin have "tough" nipples. Neither the research, nor what I have seen over the years have proven this to be true. (I think that this evolved from the need for the Upper Classes to believe that "dark" women, who were usually in positions of social submission, were somehow "tougher" and didn't really feel pain, so they could be treated inhumanly, and that creamy white upper class women were "too sensitive" to do much of anything "strenuous." Feeding their own children, included, of course.)

I have worked with red headed, blue eyed women who get a sun burn from a 200 watt lightbulb who have little or no sensitivity in their nipples, and dark skinned African American, Latina and Middle Eastern or Mediterranean women who get sore and cracked after one or two baby feedings, and need heavy duty drugs for the pain as well as a long term strategy with good positioning and latching (again, I'm looking at this from a breastfeeding standpoint, but sensitivity is the same.) Likewise, of course, I have seen light women with sensitive nipples and dark skinned women with tougher nipples, but there is no pattern.

I think some women just have more sensitive nipples than others, for anything between individual pain tolerances to hormone issues.

Anyway, it's an interesting subject. Although men often do have sensitivity, theirs is usually much less than women. There is simply no evolutionary need for men to have sensitive nipples, since they will never need nerve messages sent to the brain to trigger milk ejection, Lactogenisis (the 3rd stage of which is dependent on nipple stimulation) and milk production. That doesn't meant that women who have "tough" nipples will have trouble with milk production, but the reason women have more sensitive nipples appears to be related to lactation.
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Probably I believed it because it was true for 100% of my own survey sample (me). I may also be less sensitive because for the longest time (actually, until just a few years ago) I never wore a bra. That's supposed to toughen your nipples. At least in my childbirth class, they suggested going braless for periods of time to increase toughness. less

Tuesday, my guess is you just are not that sensitive. For reasons based on evidence based research, the "toughening through rubbing with fabric" theory, which was preached for decades, has been discounted.

Most nipple soreness during breastfeeding is from poor latching and positioning and as the skin on the nipples and areolea regenerates and turns over very quickly, it is basically impossible to create "tough" tissue on the nipple.

I know, I was originally taught this, too. But, newer research in the last 5 years or so has shown that any "toughening" exercises basically worthless. Only good positioning and time will cure sore nipples during breastfeeding and only good latch from the beginning will prevent it. less

I LOVE LOVE LOVE nipple play and having my breasts massaged. I can finish from it alone during foreplay. During sex I like a little nibbling and sometimes and stronger bite if the mood calls for it, but nothing that draws blood.

What about you ladies?!?! less

I LOVE LOVE LOVE nipple play and having my breasts massaged. I can finish from it alone during foreplay. During sex I like a little nibbling and sometimes and stronger bite if the mood calls for it, but nothing that draws blood.

What about you ladies?!?! less

I LOVE LOVE LOVE nipple play and having my breasts massaged. I can finish from it alone during foreplay. During sex I like a little nibbling and sometimes and stronger bite if the mood calls for it, but nothing that draws blood.

What about you ladies?!?! less