h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

> "Someone's bound to have done a study"

Yes, people have done studies. This even got put on h2g2 at some point: <./>B2929320</.> but I don't seem to have located the A-number (some pages get deleted/hidden of course).

> "my nose used to be even more a sensative erogenous zone"

The tip of the nose is very sensitive. Rubbing it (or the filtrum) is said to be particularly comforting to children because it reminds them of breast-feeding sensations. Perhaps you just eventually grew out of this being a good trigger.

For anyone who might not have known the filtrum is the arrow shaped groove under your nose.

I had several ops on my nose and got to know a few bits n' bobs of that particular anatomy..

errr. more the bow shape that you put the arrow in...I guess....

I heard or read somewhere that the nose has erectile tissue in it, and in sexual or socially embarrassing situations, it grows a little, and tingles. Personally, mine tingles when I visit people who own dogs.

eeeekkk!

That's not something I'd heard!

It's said to be the reason why people rub their noses when they feel self-conscious. I'm not convinced.

Oh go on then, have some links on the topic (of varying degrees of relevance and reliableness and from jokey to dry):
http://canoe.talksurgery.com/consumer/new/new00000108_3.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/homework/s95609.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s198395.htm
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/50547.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6578066&dopt=Abstract
http://www.bcm.edu/oto/grand/72194.html

Well learn something new everyday!



Next time my nose twitches then, I could be having a boner....arrrghhh

Sorry...

I'll never think of Pinocchio in quite the same way again...

I always suspected there was something dodgy about that Pinocchio dude.

Ahh dunno, I think the 'father' was a bit iffy if you ask me...

SEF> "my nose used to be even more a sensative erogenous zone"

The tip of the nose is very sensitive. Rubbing it (or the filtrum) is said to be particularly comforting to children because it reminds them of breast-feeding sensations. Perhaps you just eventually grew out of this being a good trigger.<

Ah, if I didn't know that I had been bottlefed only, methinks that would make me uncomfortable...


Biting & having ones nipples biten is a standard thing, but I wonder how it is to adjust to it being a maternal thing a not a sexual one...

I'd rather thought of it as being the other way round - that babies did it first (for obvious and instinctual reasons) and then adults copied the behaviour. But I suppose it need not be that way round at all in the remembered experiences of an individual. If it's standard now and not perverted (ie in the sense that the majority do it and thus get to call it "normal") then was there a time when the balance shifted and opinion/practice switched? Such that, beforehand, many women would get to motherhood without encountering an adult male acting like a baby (and perhaps never would or would be shocked to encounter their first).

If nipples are exclusively for maternal stuff, it begs the question as to why sexual arousal makes them erect.

Things can acquire additional/modified functionality on top of previous usage. That's rather how evolution works. I don't know the precise order of events but comparisons with other mammals would be a good starting place to find out. Culturally, an investigation of any possible recent shift is down to searching literature - which I reckon makes it your province more than mine, Snailrind.

"I'd rather thought of it as being the other way round - that babies did it first (for obvious and instinctual reasons) and then adults copied the behaviour."

I don't see sucking and biting and general teasing of the nipple as part of foreplay, post-play or any other kind of sexual play as being inspired by having seen a baby do it... Except perhaps in the cass of disturb individual that tries to in some way shape a relationship with a partner into a more mother-and-child kind relation.

I mean I've been with a girl lactating and did breastfeed out of sheer curiosity and frankly it rather spoiled mood for both of us.
It's the wrong kind of consuming... When lovers bite each other it's driven by a most raw animalistic instict to consume with passion... So to speak.

"If it's standard now and not perverted (ie in the sense that the majority do it and thus get to call it "normal") then was there a time when the balance shifted and opinion/practice switched?"

Biting each others nipples and the like, strikes me - as is evident from what I said above, part of the natural sexual play of humans... It may have been a taboo behaviour a labeled as perversion but I'd suspect it's long been widespread.

"Such that, beforehand, many women would get to motherhood without encountering an adult male acting like a baby (and perhaps never would or would be shocked to encounter their first)"

Nimbling a nipple and "acting like a baby" for sexual arousal are very different things...

Hmm.... I'll be back when I've checked some literature.

Hmmm...IMHO the nibbling nipples bit is totally dependent on the context; if you are having a calm, snuggly huggly type time together, then the s are the ultimate nice area, so yes, probably harks back to maternal stuff & reinforces closeness & security.

But another time if you are both raging with lust, it's purely & simply for the sensation & sod the mama thing!

It's interesting that some men have very sensitive nipples & others claim to feel nothing at all, IMHO this doesn't necessarily correlate to an overall lack of sensitivity.

They can be trained to become more sensitive though

zdt

"But another time if you are both raging with lust, it's purely & simply for the sensation & sod the mama thing!"

Maybe it's just that the whole body is more sensitive at such times, and nipples are no exception.

(I'm not here, by the way. No, I'm deep in some Literature. Nothing so far in Chaucer....)