Pain receptors

[WriterDom]

Was watching the discovery channel, and they were poking people with a double needle where the gap between the needles could adjust. On the legs most people could only feel one poke with the needles as far apart as 3 inches, but on a fingertip they could feel two only a fraction of an inch apart. Seems that most of your receptors are on your hands, feet, face, and tongue. They didn't go into genitals. It's why a paper cut on my finger hurts like hell, but I can walk in woods in the summer with shorts and scratch my legs all to hell, but feel little pain.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Thats why I can work outside in subzero weather with jeans and no long underwear and my legs feel fine but my hands are killing me no matter how many glove liners I have on.

 

[crazybbwgirl]

It was a great show. I loved the experiement with the electrical pulses and the sugar pills. Very interesting. How much pain we can stand if we just tell our brain we can do......

 

[WriterDom]

It was a great show. I loved the experiement with the electrical pulses and the sugar pills. Very interesting. How much pain we can stand if we just tell our brain we can do......

Yeah, I kept wanting to tie bdsm to the show, but couldn't quite make the connection. It would be hard to get a sub to buy into the pain enhancing or reducing pills unless you were a doctor or pharmacist.

 

[s'lara]

Sounds interesting to me. i've read about studies conducted wherein subjects were able to localize their physical pain by using their mind to centralize it in one specific spot. It's a given that much of this was accomplished through extensive mental exercises as well as a little self-hypnosis. If i'm not mistaken, it is a method sometimes sought after by those with chronic pain that cannot be treated with medicine or surgery.

What was the name of the program? Thanks in advance.

lara

 

[crazybbwgirl]

Yeah, I kept wanting to tie bdsm to the show, but couldn't quite make the connection. It would be hard to get a sub to buy into the pain enhancing or reducing pills unless you were a doctor or pharmacist.

True - but you know that a person can withstand quite a bit of pain if their head is in the right place. As a Dom I would think that would be valuble information for you. I think that's why I'm drawn to the whole pain/tolerance thing. Its almost like a challenge. What will win - my body or my mind?

 

[WriterDom]

What was the name of the program? Thanks in advance.

lara

Extreme Senses, on discovery Thursday nights