When you're a teenager at school
they teach you allsorts in the special biology lessons. Reproduction, childbirth and especially how your body changes when the hormones kick in. However, there is just one thing they omit. A most important thing that happens to boys. Why no one mentions it, I'll never know. The vast majority of boys never know about it until it happens. You see, for a few weeks at the start of puberty, something behind a boys' nipples goes hard. It feels like a couple of large Smarties have been implanted there. And they're tender.

I heard kids on more than one occasion mention the lumps and that they're going to see the doctor.

Mine were just as tender. I only knew it was harmless because they were mentioned in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. No one had warned me about it, not even any of my five elder brothers.

Now, on my bedroom wall above my bed was a couple of shelves. I wanted to get a book down off there one night to read in bed so I stood up on my bed, reached up and caught my naked right nipple on the corner of the shelf. I made a stifled yodelling sound and collapsed onto my bed clutching my nipple.

So, I implore you. Those of you with sons or kid brothers in that pre-puberty age. Inform them, warn them and prepare them for those two weeks of nipply tenderness and to protect them from bookshelves.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 21:42, 3 replies)

I remember them.
I assumed that I was just getting fatter. Which I was. Mine were more like large polos though.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Tue 3 Aug 2010, 22:33, closed)

Me too!
My sister used to punch me in them. Wasn't allowed to punch her in the boobs back though, that was a no-no.
(pizzaforcat ate some cement and HARDENED the FUCK UP on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 3:03, closed)

Being in my forties
I have definitely gone through puberty. But I have no recollection of sore nipple syndrome. In fact, that's the first I've ever heard of it!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 11:36, closed)