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Wellness Wednesday for May 24, 2023

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Weird personal eccentricities:

I was just reading a particularly good Cultivation novel when a piece of fan service came about, and I noticed a very weird phenomenon:

Sometimes, when I see something very sexually attractive yet unattainable, I literally feel pangs in my lower teeth! It's a weird phenomenon, sort of but not quite like biting into an ice cube and provoking sensitivity.

I've noticed this since I was just a kid, provoked by some of the hotter MILFs dropping off their kids at school. It's not frequent, but it only happens when it's something outside my reach, I've never had it happen in an actual sexual encounter.

What the hell. I'm not sure what wires got crossed in my brain, but it sure is an unusual sensation. I'd be surprised if there was anyone else alive who shared it!

I get this really metallic taste in my mouth when I'm in an extremely stressful/panic situation (like the kind of thing that only happens once every 5 years, like I'm totally shit out of luck with an authority figure or something)

I also feel physical pain in my chest from loneliness sometimes like my heart is literally aching from the emotion

Feeling chest pains from loneliness is actually quite common, so you're not alone in that regard!

That's very interesting. I don't have pangs in my teeth, but in such situations, I get something like a lump in my throat, or kinda like a rising feeling in my esophagus.

I've never gotten a pang in my lower teeth ever for any reason.

I did know a guy who used to get goosebumps when he saw an otherworldly set of ass or tits and my thought was always, "get a boner like the rest of us!"

I did know a guy who used to get goosebumps when he saw an otherworldly set of ass or tits and my thought was always, "get a boner like the rest of us!"

I guess that anime nosebleed trope actually might have something to it.

Some studies have suggested that some men have been known to salivate more when presented with the prospect of reward. Others that testosterone and cortisol levels in men rise on exposure to certain female smells (whether perceived or not), though typically from ovulating women.

Take these studies with a lick of salt, but they're out there. Whether this is related to your bottom teeth is of course another question.

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