• Deadful@lemmy.world
      4·
      23 days ago

      No, but the closeness in orientation explains why foot rubs are erotic. Stimulation of the foot and toe region of the brain will affect the neighboring genital region causing arousal.

        • Deadful@lemmy.world
          2·
          23 days ago

          I don’t see how because a foot fetish is an attraction to someone else’s feet, as in “feet that don’t have a neighboring nerve connected to the same part of the brain that controls said foot pervert’s dong.”

          This is actually science related to the electrical impedances of nerve and brain tissue.

          The connection between foot nerve stimulation and genital stimulation is a physical one that can (and has) been measured and reproduced. This response is nearly universal and affects men and women, unlike a foot fetish.

          I think a better explanation for the fetish is that feet are a part of the body that is often covered and seen as generally dirty, giving it a taboo allure other non-sexual parts of the body don’t usually have, but that’s less neurology and more just my opinion. Lol

          Edit: added the usually

          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            23 days ago

            I mean, if your partner gets turned on when you touch their feet I’d expect that to make you feel something too. But I do think your theory is compelling as well.

    • JeezNutz@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      12·
      23 days ago

      I found it on the wiki pages for phantom pain, what’s this about food fetishes though?

        • JeezNutz@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          12·
          23 days ago

          Hmmm yes. Would that mean you’re attracted to other peoples feet or attracted to your own sexual feet stuff 🤔

          • burgersc12@mander.xyz
            4·
            23 days ago

            Bros never heard of a foot fetish. Ask a woman her stories about creepy feet guys, most will have at least one I bet.

            • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
              2·
              22 days ago

              Nah, the proper way to enlighten someone about the existence of foot fetishes is to tell them “just look up wikifeet bro”

  • Deadful@lemmy.world
    11·
    23 days ago

    I’m an EEG/Sleep technologist and an older coworker just gifted me an ancient book with a similar image inside that may have the genitals. I’ll check when I’m back in my office and upload if applicable. 👍🧠🍆

    • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
      5·
      23 days ago

      Feet are a very common sexual fetish and this observation you made has been theorized to partly be responsible for that. Maybe those nerves from feet/genitals sometimes talk to each other.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    8·
    23 days ago

    This is how creatures “look” in Dwarf Fortress to the game itself, since they’re only programmed to have parts; but there is nothing that distinguishes where the parts actually… Are?

    Someone made a mod that visually represents every monster in the game the way the program is connecting the parts together and it’s pretty fucking funny. It’s also how you can do absurb things like biting something’s foot while you’re stuck in a headlock in their armpit.

  • jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    22 days ago

    Does anybody else ever feel like this, physically? Like right as they are drifting off to sleep, or coming out of a dream? Or during a fever? I swear- I have felt like my hands and tongue and mouth are HUGE many, many times.

    • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
      5·
      23 days ago

      It’s a map of the surface of one part of the brain. Imagine a Star Trek scanning beam going across your head from right to left, about where your ears are. This is a picture of half of that part of the brain (the other part is a left/right mirror image of this picture).

      So the cells along the surface of the brain here are connected to the sensory nerves in your body and this is a map showing which body parts are where. So if you move to the top of the brain it is the area where you feel sensation from your abdomen. Go further down the side and you get to arms and then hands, then face. Notice that sensitive areas of your body are much bigger (hands, face) because a lot more brain tissue is devoted to those areas.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      2·
      22 days ago

      Depending on the elasticity of the brain, brain damage can make other parts of the brain take over for damaged areas (after a terrible recovery process).

      In fact, it’s possible for a brain to be almost entirely empty space and people learn about it decades into their normal lives.

      There are regions inside the brain that usually take care of certain functions but it’s not like there’s a specific area that’s guaranteed to be designated to specific nerves. Every brain is different, the schematics are generalisations that’ll work well enough most of the time.