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pompeii -> RE: Spicy foods and Endorphins (7/18/2008 6:46:18 AM)
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Bearing in mind, we use the terms "spicy" and "hot" for both sex and food, back in grad school, in an attempt to satisfy my almost insatiable curiousity about D/s kink, I was perusing the stacks in Widener Library in desperate search of true kink to be gleaned from the ancient collections ... when I ran smack into the direct connection of spicy foods and endorphins!
There, alone among the annals and journals, as I leafed through the dusty literature (no world-wide web in those heady days), I discovered, and I remember this very clearly, a series of references to treatment of black slaves where the wealthy plantation owners rubbed chili pepper into their hapless slave's kitty, as punishment for some presumed infraction. (Oh, to have lived in a prior day and to have my very own slave girl ....ever since then I've wanted to try this on a willing subbie ) <slap><slap> ...
As I read on, I was finding myself getting aroused by the ideas it fostered, <slap>, expecially for the pretty and presumably intelligent (hence one who could appreciate a good D/s time) mini-skirted coed innocently sitting to the left of me (always to the left, for mathematical reasons prior stated in another thread), my thoughts, of course, unbeknownst to her, wondering what it would be like to spice up her lovely kitty right then and there, as we quietly smiled at one another.
Delving further into my studies, I slowly came to the realization, amazingly to me, that you can't "taste" spicey foods at all, since your tongue can only taste 4 flavors (salt, sweet, sour, bitter, and, newly proposed, a fifth "umami" flavor, aka savory or seaweed). The natural question was .... ummm... what about spicey foods?
Alas, it turns out, you don't actually "taste" spicy foods at all. You experience them. Yup. Spice, as you've surmised, e.g., chili pepper, has a different effect on you altogether.
Not only do you EXPERIENCE spicy foods - but that experience modifies your pain sensations! At that time (long ago, I assure you), it was hypothesized that the oily substance closely mimicked a purportedly natural "substance P" (which was reputed to be responsible primarily for conducting pain signals). Given that spice and pain are now closely associated, it's no wonder our sadistic slaveowner utilized it in other sensitive places around his hapless nubian nymph's body related to pain and punishment.
Fast forward a few decades and we find that spice and pain are closely associated, and that capsaicin, the active ingredient in the chili pepper oleoresins, because of it's specific mimickry, can use up substance p (hence you need more and more spice to excite the "pain" taste of pepper over time), and when there is no neurotransmitter, there are no transmissions in the neurons. You become numb to the pain.
Interestingly, see these results on the naked mole rat ability to feel pain (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125533.htm).
Or this description showing local supplies of neurotransmitters are used up by spice clogging the pain receptors (http://www.drugdigest.org/DD/DVH/HerbsWho/0,3923,4095|African%2BPepper,00.html).
Here's an about.com layman's article on how spice relates to the sensation of pain (http://arthritis.about.com/od/arthqa/f/substanceP.htm).
Or, for the die hard kinksters (please remove that huge plug of ginger root from your slave's anus now, thank you), here's a reference titled "The Neurobiological Basis of Pain and its Control" (http://keck.ucsf.edu/neurograd/faculty/Basbaum.html).
Note: If any Silicon Valley sub wants to meet me at the San Jose Public Library in order to allow me to experiment with spices on your pussy - of course, only to satisfy my seemingly insatiable lusty scientific curiousity of course, <wink>, please write (I'm sure my inbox isn't going to be flooded with willing local volunteers!) ... sigh.... :)
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