A Finnish court has acquitted a doctor charged with malpractice and sexual abuse after he sucked a 20-year-old patient's nipple. She had complained of fluid discharge, and he said she consented to what was described as "an old midwives' trick."

Are your nipples constrained and bound by the tyranny of traditional bras? Fear no more, liberator Wang is here with a newfangled boulder-holder, which features special indents for your (centrally placed, he assumes) nips. [InventorSpot]

The strangest thing about the "Nipplen add on" is not that they are designed to give a woman permanently erect nipples - it's that they're meant to do so for a doll. Manufacturers say it "adds extra excitement." [RandomGoodStuff]

The text in this vintage image (a Russian PSA?) apparently reads: "Are you taking good care OF YOUR BREASTS?" And at the bottom, "Harden your nipples by washing them everyday with ice water." Sound advice, but why? [Vintage Ads]

"Done right, breast-baring's strategic value is unrivalled. That said, in the brouhaha over Carla's bralessness, no one has remarked that she doubtless also went knickerless." [Times of London]

A tattoo artist in the UK is looking for a big enough bra for his butt, now that he's gotten two nipples (originally "modeled"on those of Lily Allen) on his behind. His mum doesn't like it. [The Sun]

Thanks, but no thanks. [Vintage Ads]

She's also the author of Nipples: A Novel and the auteur of the unrelated Nipples: Secrets of My Dreams.

Polymastia or "accessory breasts" is a condition where extra boobs pop up on the human body and it isn't as rare as you think: 6 percent of the population has it! [MSNBC]

• Video of Madonna falling yesterday during a concert in Brazil. She played it off, did a yoga stretch, then proceeded to French kiss a dancer dressed in Like-A-Virgin-duds, so everything's cool. [The Life Files, PopSugar]

Nipples had quite a weekend! On Friday, the TSA announced it would be changing its policy regarding piercings following the uproar after a Texas woman complained she was told to remove her two nipple piercings in order to board a plane. In other nipple news, this one of the male variety, an advertisement for Wrestle…

Celeb lawyer Gloria Allred has accepted her next high profile assignment: defending a Texas woman whose nipple rings were removed by airport security. Mandi Hamlin, 37, the plaintiff, is demanding "an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation," after officials forced her to remove her nipple…

Today on New York Public Radio, Leonard Lopate interviewed Charles Bock, author of Beautiful Children, a novel set in Nevada — both the suburbs and the "sleazy Vegas sex industry." Questioned Lopate: "Some of the details (in the book) can be rather stomach-turning, like the stripper who has her nipples surgically…

Do you find it torturous to go bra shopping because 95% of what's available falls into the "contoured" bra category? As in: the bras that are supposed to be "lined" when really, they're just padded, unyielding cups? For some of us with larger breasts, it is torturous, because contour bras can make it even more…

Cate Blanchett is the cover of the October issue of W. And she looks hot. In the dewy, glowy, all-American (all-Australian?) sorta way. Though we also suspect a wee bit of retouching: How else to explain the drenched white blouse and no nipple shots? [Style.com]

• "If I could just do one thing for 24 hours it would be [have sex] . . . or sew. Or have sex while sewing. Or sew an outfit to have sex in." So says singer Beth Ditto, which is why the plus-sized Ditto is now collaborating with New Look to become the most unlikely (and kinda awesome!) celebrity clothing endorser yet. [