Recently, my online friend made a casual remark in one of her voice messages: "everyone comes with a [dating] shopping list". I knew she is right because I have one too, in the back of my mind. It contains items like looks, smell, taste, voice. My shopping list is actually much more detailed than this list suggests. Some people look great until they open their mouth...
One of the earliest Google references to the term 'skin hunger', is a 1996 article 'A rationale for physical touching in psychotherapy' by Reuven Bar-Levav. Skin hunger has become the popular word for the more generic term touch deprivation. It received renewed attention due to Covid-19 lockdowns (eg, Allure, CNN, Guardian, Independent, Medium, PsychCentral,...
One of the most intriguing hair colours is red, or ginger, or strawberry blonde. There are plenty of nicknames for redheads and some of them even relate to evil. There are also plenty of allegations, rumours and tales about people with red hair. Probably because humans with red hair are rare. And minorities easily become the scape goats of society as someone always...
I just heard someone’s voice for the very first time in my life, after having had a good conversation earlier today. We have also just connected in social media. I just wrote to her that the second hurdle has been taken. That remark to her made we wonder about the stages in a relationship. At least from my perspective. My male perspective may however be quite...
My April 29 blog on kissing also mentioned laughter as a unique human trait. That remark made me wonder about its origin in human evolution. "The use of language-based jokes is clearly unique to humans," according to Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist. "There is some suggestion that apes 'play practical jokes' or laugh at another's misfortune, such as...
Some of my previous blogs were about striking differences between humans and animals like communication, language, brain versus mind, clothing, fire, housing and tools, and the subsequent use of fossil fuels, mathematics, timekeeping and writing and so on. A less obvious one is kissing. Many animals use their head to touch each other. To some extent,...
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