Skin Is More Than Beauty Deep
It has many roles in maintaining good health while also producing pleasure in the flirting, dating and mating processes. Your skin is your largest pleasure organ and can receive stimulating signals in several ways, including pressure, heat, rubbing and gentle scratching. It also releases pheromones that taste and smell delicious to the opposite sex.
The skin is the body's largest organ and makes up approximately one-fifth of the total body weight. It has over half a million sensory signal fibers entering the spinal cord just on the back. The skin also stores fat, and acts as a shock absorber against mechanical impact. Your skin is your body's largest eliminative organ, nearly always excreting salt, water and other chemicals.
One of the skin's many basic functions is acting as a warning system against physical danger from any direction. It can detect a touch on nearly every place on the body. Further, the skin can detect not only a "contact" feeling, it can detect vibration, pressure, temperature, rubbing and liquid or dry.
The skin also is a barrier to outside bacteria, viruses, toxins, liquids, gasses and chemical irritants that might enter the sensitive body areas. And as you have observed, it is your body's automatic temperature regulator to keep your temperature right around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius). Only a few degrees up or down will cause you to feel really bad as a signal that you are in an unhealthy condition and you better do something fast to correct the situation. On the other hand, a little warm and wet can feel very good!
The skin also serves as a sun radiation shield, blocking out harmful ultra violet (UV) rays. Approximately five percent of the skin cells make a dark substance called melanin that gives skin its color and blocks the sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. The darker your skin is, the more melanin you have in your skin.
When you go out into the sun, the cells make extra melanin to protect you from getting burned by the sun's ultraviolet rays. Many people think a suntan looks sexy. In any case, at least they are getting their vitamin D because the skin allows sunlight through the surface to produce vitamin D. This vitamin is necessary for absorption of dietary calcium and phosphate that is vital to healthy teeth, bones and brain function. Research Learn More . . .
When you look at a person's skin you see the top layer called the epidermis which is made up of dead skin cells. Yes, when you look at a person'd bare body what you are looking at is mostly dead! Don't worry, under the epidermis are billions of new cells that push off the old dead cells along with any accumulated bacteria, dirt and stains. This is an automatic cleaning system for the body's exterior! Though you can't see it happening, every minute of the day you lose about 30,000 to 40,000 dead skin cells off the surface of your skin. Those billions of dead skin cells every day amount to almost 9 pounds (4 kilograms) of dead cells a year. That is good reason to bathe and change clothes and bed linen regularly!
Now the Fun Stuff About the Skin
Your skin is a wonderful pleasure organ! The right touch, stroke or pat can trigger off wonderful feelings as the brain releases dozens of different hormones that instantly go into the blood.
In different parts of the body the hormones start actions preparing the body for more action. Remember that these bodies we are driving around the planet have at their deepest level two primary goals: (1) survive and (2) find a mate and make more similar little bodies. Nature's way to get us to do that chore is to make it feel really really good and a whole lot of fun! The more recently added new brain cerebral cortex with its complex thought processes has turned the mating process into something of a game. This game has rituals and many unexpected turns and twists that make flirting, dating and mating very exciting. Some people say it is a lot like hunting where the "chase" is more fun than the "capture".
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-- Body Language Secrets: A Guide During Courtship & Dating.
-- Male Body Language Secrets.
-- Body Language + Face Reading + Auras by Rose Rosetree.
-- Female Body Language Secrets.
-- Male Body Language That Attracts Women.
-- Winning Body Language: by Mark Bowden.
-- Female Body Language That Attracts Men.
-- Teach Yourself Body Language.
-- Male Body Language for success.
-- The Body Language Handbook: by Gregory Hartley.
-- Flirting Female Body Language Men Always Notice.
-- The Secret Language of Success: Using Body Language to Get What You Want.
-- Use the New Body Language to Get What You Want! by Janine Driver.
-- Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship.
-- Body Language: How To Understand The Unspoken Language Of The Body.
-- Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work by Carol Goman Ph.D.
-- Body Language in Relationships.
-- Self Improvement Of Relationship Skills Through Body Language.
-- Male Body Language for Lovers.
-- The Secret Language of Relationships: Your Complete Personology Guide to Any Relationship with Anyone.
-- Reading People: How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior with Body Language.
-- Complete Idiot's Guide to Body Language.
-- Love Signals: A Practical Field Guide to the Body Language of Courtship.
-- Body Language: How To Understand The Unspoken Language Of The Body.
-- Secrets of Sexual Body Language.
-- Understanding Body Language.
-- Body Language in Love and Romance.
-- Fine Art of Flirting.
-- Flirting With Danger: Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination.
-- The Girls' Guide to Guys: Straight Talk for Teens on Flirting, Dating, Breaking Up, Making Up & Finding True Love.
-- Facts About Flirting.
-- Superflirt.
-- Men Are From Cyberspace: The Single Woman's Guide To Flirting, Dating, & Finding Love.
-- Girls' Guide to Guys: Straight Talk on Flirting.
-- Flirting 101: How to Charm Your Way to Love, Friendship, and Success.
-- What Southern Women Know About Flirting: The Fine Art of Social, Courtship, and Seductive Flirting.
-- The Power of Body Language: by Tonya Reiman.
-- The Little Book of Flirting: Seven Days to Being a Great Flirt.
