Why are the Touch of a Man & the Touch of a Woman Different?

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   Revirioposted 2 years ago

   
   During normal everyday life, or during a deeply enjoyable coitus ~ we feel the difference of touch: If a man touches a man, nothing happens; if a woman touches a woman, nothing happens — but if a nude man touches a nude woman, and vice verse — Behold! Fire erupts!
   
   My question is this: When we touch someone, is that completely physical (i.e., an atomic) phenomenon, or is something more deeper going on?
   
   
   
   1. Touch therapy
   
   2. Thing-in-itself

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      peterstreepposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      your statement is written from a hetro point of view. But if you are lesbian or gay things are different.
      
      And it all depends on the situation. When I kiss someone to greet there is nothing to it. You say hello, kiss, hug, touch an arm, and continue the conversation. Be it a man or a woman. There's nothing sexual to it.
      
      If you are touching by the way of flirting, that's something else.
      When you have sex, that's something else again.

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         Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you.
         
         I was actually looking for a scientific explanation about this phenomenon of touch and excitements that arise in our thing-in-itself being because of various 'types' of touch. I got religious answers.
         
         Maybe the phenomenon of touch is a spiritual phenomenon.

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            peterstreepposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I didn't give any religious answer!
            
            But science has to do with cultural differences. Touch is seen differently in many societies and different times. So if you want a more scientific explanation I think you probably have to look into anthropology and sociology as well.

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               Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               +1

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            Misbah786posted 2 years agoin reply to this

            I sincerely apologize. I didn't realize you weren't looking for religious answers. Because the forum post was posted under Religion and Philosophy forums, I expressed my religious views. There were no plans to preach and cause a distraction or disturbance
            
            Stay Blessed!!

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               Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               

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      tsmogposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Just poking about and seeing you want science stuff related to your query. For you curious nature take a peek or delve deep into this science article. Look toward the right will you see the title; CT afferents The opening paragraph is:
      
      "What are CT afferents? Nerve receptors in mammalian skin that respond to innocuous mechanical stimulation. Although C afferents as a class are associated with temperature and pain coding, CT — for ‘C tactile’ or ‘tactile C’ — afferents respond to light touch but not painful stimulation. They fire action potentials when the skin is gently deformed, earning the classification of ‘low-threshold mechanoreceptors’."
      
      I read through it getting the jest of it, yet a little over my head. Perhaps you will find it enlightening.
      
      https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pd … 1314-5.pdf

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         Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         +1! Great stuff!
         
         I digged the science article. Very interestingly, they too do not know the secret mechanisms of touch. They were speculating.

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   Revirioposted 2 years ago

   What happens if you have sex with a dead person? - Quora
   
   Necrophilia - Wikipedia
   
   I personally think that the key exists in the fact that we do not get joy  by touching a corpse, and always look forward to touching alive people.

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   Misbah786posted 2 years ago

   It is because God created man and woman to complement one another. Men who exhibit childish behavior cannot cherish and appreciate a woman, and the same is true for women; these behaviors cause chaos and division in society.
   
   As you have posted the question under Religion and Philosophy. I'd like to respond to your question according to the religious viewpoint that God tells us.
   
   If men and women were not designed to be together. God would not have created the world with both genders as husband and wife 
   
   *Genesis 15-25*
   
   15- The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
   16- And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;
   17- but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
   18- The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
   
   19- Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
   20- So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
   
   But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
   
   21- So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh.
   22- Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
   
   23- The man said,
   
   “This is now bone of my bones
       and flesh of my flesh;
   she shall be called ‘woman,’
       for she was taken out of man.”
   
   24- That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
   
   25- Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
   
   In the end,  I would say that I respect all genders and all types of existing relationships. What I just said is in regards to what religion teaches us, it is same in Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Despite all other differences, the message of God is the same in all Abrahamic religions.
   
   Finally, people who commit such acts/crimes with the dead are dead at heart; if they knew how they are abusing the dead, they would kill themselves for being so cruel. Sorry for using so harsh words but this is what I truly feel.
   
   May God have mercy on all of us. Ameen!!

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      Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      +1

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 2 years ago

   Great response Misbah!

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      Misbah786posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you so much, Bredz. Glad you liked my response. I just felt like it needs to be answered
      Stay Blessed!

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      Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      

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   Vladimir Karasposted 2 years ago

   It's built into our default, animalistic part of our nature (since it's not species-specific for us humans) to respond differently to the touch of someone of opposite gender -- gay folks exempted.
   But then we could refine it a little from this generalization, and say that not the touch of every person of opposite gender is felt as pleasant -- assuming that we dislike the person.
   It's another story that our higher brain centers are capable of converting that crude instinct into eroticism and even sensual poetry. After all, we made something like patriotism out of animalistic instinct of territoriality and defending a natural habitat. And amassing the means of survival we praise as "big life success". And need for an alpha status in the herd we call "political ambition".
   Someone much smarter than me (Greek philosopher Plato) said:
   "Man is an animal endowed with intellect". LOL.

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      Revirioposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      +1

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