“It’s hard to talk about things being ‘sensual’ without immediately sounding like you mean ‘sexual,’ but it would be nice to reclaim some of that sensual pleasure exchange among friends,” writes edithzimmerman
Photo: Bertrand Taoussi/EyeEm/Getty Images The other day my friend got a massage, and she described it as being so painful that she was almost in tears. She said she’d been tempted to tell the guy to go lighter, but for whatever reason she “toughed it out,” and then, afterward, felt “like a million bucks.” Immediately I wanted the same thing — to be touched, for it to hurt, and for it to make me feel even better once it was over.
In a recent story on Elemental, Medium’s newish health section, journalist Markham Heid investigates the science behind why human touch can alleviate pain. He notes something called the “gate control theory of pain” , which suggests that feelings of physical pressure can override feelings of pain by essentially blocking the brain’s “gateway” to pain input. This is why when we bang our elbow, for instance, we instinctively apply pressure.
Other studies suggest that massage might be to people what the act of petting is to our cats and dogs. Apparently the parts of our brain that appear linked to the enjoyment of physical touch — the insular cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex, for instance — are the same-ish ones that activate in our pets when we rub their heads and stroke their backs.
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