Apparently, our lips have over a million nerve endings, which is much more than the clitoris has. Why don’t our lips feel as sensitive as our clitorises do?
Apparently, our lips have over a million nerve endings, which is much more than the clitoris has. Why don’t our lips feel as sensitive as our clitorises do?
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"Sensitivity" means more than just "capable of being sexually stimulated".
You would be much more easily able to identify an object pressed against your lips than you would pressed against your clitoris, for example.
Your lips are (presumably) a lot bigger than your clitoris, meaning that those nerve endings are more spread out. They are still somewhat erogenous, so we like to kiss. But in the end, it’s all in the brain. Under erotic hypnosis, some people get to orgasm from being touched on the hand, the knee, or not at all. There are even people who develop the ability to experience sexual gratification from their ears or armpits, for instance those people who are paraplegic and have no sensations below the waist. The brain can reconnect the centre of pleasure to another part of the body.
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s because the size difference between the two. All the nerve endings in your clit are super tightly condensed into one little tiny spot. The lips may have more overall, but with them being significantly larger in size, the nerve endings probably still aren’t as concentrated or as dense as they are in the clit
They are not connected directly to the brain. They have to go through the stomach on the way. Science!
Have you ever had a person you’re into run a finger across your lips?
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They’re not connected to the same brain/spine regions. Not all nerve endings do the same thing. Some are just for sensing pain, heat, or even the need to itch. If you somehow rewired your nervous system so your lips are registered as an erogenous zone it would probably be crazy
If i could orgasm trough my lips I’d be making out with food the first chance I get. Imagine me at a table just moaning like crazy and my saliva all over the place. A sight to be seen.
Lips are hugely important for interfacing with the stuff we eat. You need to instantly know a MASSIVE amount of information about an object as soon as it even brushes past your lips. The same is not true about the clitoris, as it doesn’t serve any purpose other than sexual stimulation.
It’s the same with your hands/fingertips, and the reason why babies/toddlers put stuff in their mouths. They’re training their brains to interpret signals from those millions of nerve-endings.
There’s a lot more to how our nerves operate than just the amount of nerve endings.
There’s different nerves for different things, and different combinations of those different types.
That’s the big flaw in a lot of the militant anti-circumcision crowd’s argument.
It’s absolutely true that cosmetic circumcision is utterly unnecessary and has no positive value, but it isn’t true that it ruins men’s sex lives because the foreskin has so many more nerve endings than the glans.
Me every time I bite my lip: 😩
Aren’t they? Whenever I get stressed out I always tap my mouth.
Nerve endings simply indicate the possibility for interaction between themselves and the central NS, for many purposes. Very surprised that in addition to eating, no one has mentioned speech yet.
You are just lumping together different definitions of sensitive. My lips are certainly more sensitive then my clitoris in general, if I had a grain of sand or a crumb between my lips I could tell the position precisely, the texture and perhaps be able to identify the object.
If I had something similar in my knickers rubbing against my clitoris, I would just feel irritation.
My clitoris is more sensitive to sexual stimulation then my lips, but that’s one very narrow and specific type of sensitivity. It’s also more sensitive to pain, again that’s just one aspect. Like eyes are more sensitive to pain then fingertips, but fuck figuring out exactly what and where something is in your eye that’s causing that pain.
Which lips
Another point could be, that our lips are somewhat constantly exposed to movement and sensory-stimuli. For example while we eat, whistle, kiss, smile, feel the temerature or speak. If you focus on your lips while speaking you can register the lip-movement at all times. Therefore our brain regulates and filters the sensations, otherways your brain would be overloaded all the times.
Since the clitoris (or the glans) is less exposed to stimuli, there are also less signals (btw the movement signals of our genitals are filtered constantly too, otherways we would go crazy). And most of the time when we preceive information from our genitals, we do that pretty focused 😉
That may be another explanation for feeling less sensitive on our lips.
Let me tell you something. I was curious about lip fillers so I decided I’d try it out. Omg, WHY DOES NO ONE TALK ABOUT THE PAIN?! The numbing cream they apply did absolutely nothing. I was also handed a mini vibrating massager to place on my shoulder as if to somehow distract the pain and trust me when I say that I wanted to put that shiet on my clit instead.
Cos I can’t be cumming everytime I lick my lips
There is the two pin test. Your lips can feel the gap between two pins held close together more than any other part of the body.
Imagine you have erytime a orgasm while you eat for example an apple
That’s easy. Because I don’t have a clitoris!
Could you learn to read Braille with your clit?
Asking for a friend.
You use your lips more
I don’t have a clitoris
The best way for lips to feel aroused is by putting them ON the clitoris
Have you ever, even by mistake, grazed the skin of a kiwi with your lips? If you haven’t, go do it and tell me your lips aren’t as sensitive.
Different nerves innervate different parts of the brain. In turn, stimuli are interpreted differently.
If I came every time I licked my lips I’d never have time or energy to do anything else.
Which lips?
I thought it was to do with the fact that they’re always exposed to the elements, thus they’re always stimulated to a degree.
It might be due to keratinization – a layer to protect from the harshness of the environment. Our lips are first line compared to the clitoris.
I don’t think nerves are all sending the same signals to the same parts of the brain. You don’t normally get sexually aroused if something touches your fingertips. Just like it would be difficult to interpret braille using your genitalia.
I’ll get back to you when I find my clitoris
This means that my lips can identify a sugar cube from a lentil, but the clit can’t do that.
Now I wish my lips had as many nerve endings as a clitoris.
I don’t have a clitoris.
nerve endings maybe but the nerves in the clit extend into the body deeply (im sure im not using the right wording there) – like its a more deeply felt thing
You’re doing it wrong.
Try keeping your clitoris as open as your lips and see how the sensitivity goes away
The "8,000 nerve endings in the clitoris" that we use as a standard for every clitoris; was arrived at by a single scientist who counted the nerve endings in a COW CLIT. That’s where we are ppl.
Because despite having more nerve endings, it is because the labia are designed to detect a variety of everyday stimuli, whereas the clitoris is highly specialised for sexual pleasure, with a greater concentration of nerve endings in a smaller area, making it more sensitive specifically to sexual stimulation.
Sensitivity≠sexual stimulation
Same reason why our fingertips aren’t as sexually sensitive. Nerves don’t always equal arousal
Shush girl, shut your lips. Do the Hellen Keller and talk with your hips
Imma flick her lips next time
You ever had your mouth numbed at the dentist? It always blew my mind how easy it was for druel to drip out of your lips after.
eat something super spicy and tell me you arent in pain regretting everything
Our lips are out always. Moving and pressing against each other. Fingers touch our lips, cups, straws, forks, spoons. But our clitoris is hidden away, tucked in nicely under a protective hood, hardly ever being touched. Sensitive
My lips on a clitoris is the most nerve endings. Happy endings, too! For both of us!
To keep us from chipping our teeth with a vibrator?
mine does, then again my skins sensitive
Using hypnosis, your brain can reinterpret the signals from any part of your body as pleasurable. You can absolutely orgasm from having your lips touched. It’s something I’ve gotten pretty deep into in the last few years.
Can you train your lips to read braille?
That’s not how it works, clitoris purpose is an orgasm, and lips isnt a sexual organ. Its not just about nerve endings
Nerve endings =/= erogenous zone.
Pussy lips
As a penis haver, I can confirm that my lips are WAY more sensitive than my clitoris.
Be fucking cause
I can just imagine someone having sexual stimulation from their lips because their nerve endings have been rewired or modified
You have never had a pimple on your lip
Nerve density is indicative of two point discrimination (being able to tell what you are touching); not necessarily sensitivity. Your lips are extremely good at feeling different textures.
Sensitivity is not really dependent on number of nerves. You can have one nerve that is more sensitive to touch than a thousand nerves. The clit (and glans) is super sensitive because the nerves are very close to the surface and those nerves don’t really get touched much so your brain is very tuned in to those signals when they do come through.
Different nerves are tuned for sensitivity to different types of stimulation
I can get twinges in my nether regions and get sexually stimulated when someone kisses me good!
Could the be concentration of the nerve endings? Like clitorises are pretty small compared to the surface area of the lips. So maybe higher concentration of nerve endings could result in more intense sensation of pain/ pleasure feeling.
thats why lip pimples/ black heads hurt so badly 😵
Try getting lip filler. You’d agree your lips are more sensitive as you wipe the tears from your eyes…
One is geared more towards accuracy and detail, the other is geared towards intensity of sensation.
To put it in DND terms: lips are finesse weapons, clits are strength.
The clitoris actually has more nerve endings than the lips about 8,000! It’s the most sensitive organ in the body. The lips are super sensitive too, but in terms of pure concentration, the clitoris wins!