Recently, the US began to sell “simulator zits.” For$ 20 you get a disgusting-cuddly toy: it looks like a rectangle, covered with skin with large pores. If you push, they will become yellow mass that mimic sebum.
Manufacturers know what to push (in all senses): many of us can’t bear to look at a pimple or black spot. Why is this happening? The unequivocal answer from the scientists, but there are several hypotheses.
Fear and pleasure
Cosmetologist Sandra Lee on instagram almost 3 million million subscribers. Most of her posts is a video, where she squeezes the acne, takes out sebaceous plugs from the pores and through Wens. She believes that it page popular for the same reason that horror movies and riding roller coasters. “You get a rush of adrenaline, but since this is not happening to you, then you, besides, to feel that euphoria,” she says in an interview with Refinery29.
Agree with her and Dan Kelly is Professor of philosophy at Purdue University. However, he notes that there is a difference: when we watch horror, the fear, and when squeezing a pimple – disgust. This emotion is necessary for us to protect from danger: for example, from toxic food, or from a contagious person. We are disgusting pimples because they signal: don’t touch, in his body that something is wrong.”
But here’s the strange thing: when people see something disgusting, they want to share. Rather, this wish is a way to report danger to others. Therefore, the rollers Sandra is so popular: first, they evoke a powerful emotional response in the form of disgust, and then a strong desire to send to friends.
Pimples as antistress
Followers of Sandra Lee confessed that calms them in the process, and for some it even helps me sleep. It is something like Autonomous sensory Meridian response (ASMR) is a strange reaction, about which scientists still know very little.
It is a pleasant sensation, goose bumps, soothe that the person is feeling due to certain sounds and visual patterns. Whisper in your ear, the sound of combing hair or nails Scrabble by the book – all of this does bring people pleasure. Perhaps squeezing pimples – this is another ASMR-pathogen.
Trypophobia
It is the fear of cluster of holes and openings, especially when they are on someone’s skin. Subconsciously we perceive it as the manifestation of the disease, therefore, trypophobia is pretty common.
Naturalist Eugene Timonova on your Youtube channel says that the primates often suffer from tropical African myiasis – boils with holes in which the fly-pathogen lays eggs. Primates spend a lot of time trying to remove parasites from the skin – so this habit as part of their way of life, even transferred to the person: a desire to squeeze pimples.
Desire to damage your body
This so-called selfharm or autoaggression behavioral disorderin which a person wants to hurt myself. He likes to cut his skin, tear off the crust from the wounds and pick open inflammation. Perhaps the desire to squeeze pimples is one of the manifestations selfharm.
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