Women Tend to Have Better Sense of Touch Due to Smaller Finger Size

[P.J.]

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People who have smaller fingers have a finer sense of touch, according to new research in the Dec. 16 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. This finding explains why women tend to have better tactile acuity than men, because women on average have smaller fingers.

"Neuroscientists have long known that some people have a better sense of touch than others, but the reasons for this difference have been mysterious," said Daniel Goldreich, PhD, of McMaster University in Ontario, one of the study's authors. "Our discovery reveals that one important factor in the sense of touch is finger size."

To learn why the sexes have different finger sensitivity, the authors first measured index fingertip size in 100 university students. Each student's tactile acuity was then tested by pressing progressively narrower parallel grooves against a stationary fingertip -- the tactile equivalent of the optometrist's eye chart. The authors found that people with smaller fingers could discern tighter grooves.

"The difference between the sexes appears to be entirely due to the relative size of the person's fingertips," said Ethan Lerner, MD, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, who is unaffiliated with the study. "So, a man with fingertips that are smaller than a woman's will be more sensitive to touch than the woman."


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[renuka]

Dear PJ sir,

If we go through lots of medical studies..it always almost invariably shows that women have finer sense of perception,finer sense of touch..stronger psychic ability etc.

I can summarize it this way...it is the lack of Testosterone that heightens all other senses..the moment Testosterone is the dominating hormones(as in males)..the drive for continuation of species is higher and that becomes the main objective of the males existence "To Get a Partner/Mate"

A Testerone driven brain is not bothered about all finer touches etc.

Have you noticed gay men especially the passive partner Gay(who plays the role of a "woman" is the gay relationship)..they have all finer touches and tend to touch people when they talk.
This could be due to lesser levels of testosterone partly due to some unknown mechanism cos the Hypothalamus of a gay person is supposed to differ slightly from a straight male.

Even Transexuals with the XXY chromosomes tend to use lots of hand gestures when they talk an are more sensitive compared to the normal XY males.

So basically it all boils down to testosterone and its effect on the human brain.


Note: Just to add..if a male who is having normal levels of testosterone but does not let it influence him by vows of celibacy and he becomes a Urdhva Retas..he develops Ojas.

So going by all that...I feel it will be much easier for a female to attain the state of heightened spirituality since there is less testosterone.