Your partner complains about her throbbing headache but any advice is dismissed in the heat of the moment. But what if answer was seducing her?
According to studies by the University of Colorado at Boulder, researchers found that pain wanes when lovers touch.
“The more empathic the partner and the stronger the analgesic effect, the higher the synchronisation between the two when they are touching,” says postdoctoral pain researcher and lead author, Pavel Goldstein.
Published in the journal of Scientific Reports, the report explores ‘interpersonal synchronisation in the context of pain and touch’.
The experiment recruited 22 couples where males were made to observe while women were tasked with experiencing pain.
The female volunteers were subject to mild heat pain for 2 minutes. Evidence suggests that through touch, pain decreased.
“It appears that pain totally interrupts this interpersonal synchronization between couples. Touch brings it back,” says Goldstein. “ It could be that touch is a tool for communicating empathy, resulting in an analgesic, or pain-killing, effect.”
Ok, maybe sex isn’t a substitute for paracetamol. But maybe you need to start touching her…and hey, one thing leads to another.
