My brother has always liked to have his nipples licked and sucked. I can understand that, it feels good and it is arousing. Every female can tell you that, and it's really the same physiology for males. So, when we make love, I spend some time licking around his nipples and sucking them enough to give him a little tingle.
After his wife and my husband died, I decided to move back to the home place and we could live together like we had always dreamed of doing. Now we could make love any time we wanted to and he could get his nipples licked and sucked any time he wanted that.
That led to the night when I had been licking his areolae and sucked his nipple with my lips and he flinched. I stopped and asked him if I bit him and he said I didn't but that his nipple was sore when I sucked on it. Well, I had to do an examination and didn't see any marks or bruises so I looked his other one over really well and while I was there I sucked it up in my lips and he flinched again.
So, we suspended our lovemaking and we both began feeling all around his nipples and it felt like there was something sort of firm right behind each nipple. Some very worrisome thoughts crossed our minds, we looked at each other, and then in one motion we were both up and headed for the computer to check out breast cancer.
Maybe we shouldn't have done that. Untrained folk shouldn't try to be diagnosticians, the list of fearful possibilities, of treatments, of side effects, of possible death, is enough to make a statue tremble. We talked, we wondered if our nipple play had started tumors, we hugged, we tried to be light and laugh about it, we failed at that, and finally we both cried. I say again, if you haven't been to medical school, don't try to play doctor, you'll just make yourself miserable with fear. So, as soon as the clock said 9:00 the next morning we called the doctor's office and made an appointment.
Men, at least my man, don't have a clue about how to tell the doctor what we had found. He thought it was unmanly to like having his nipples licked and sucked, he was embarrassed to talk about it on that account and, because he figured he'd have to tell how we found the problem, that could undermine his ego if the doctor laughed, so he was one edgy fellow as we went to and waited in the doctor's offices. Our time came to go in and he wanted me with him so I sat quietly during the doctor's preliminaries and then when the doctor asked what the matter was that brought him there, my brother looked at me in panic and didn't say a word.
Reader, you should understand that women go through all sorts of awkward, uncomfortable, totally vulnerable and unsightly experiences with their doctor visits and long ago I had lost any concern for medical subtlety and so I bluntly told the doctor we thought he had breast cancer.