What IS ASMR?

 
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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing


 
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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
It's not a sexual thing

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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
If I remember it right, the current best-scientific-guess with the root of asmr is as an evolutionary leftover from grooming in monkey-men.

'Close' proximity, pseudo-touch (a bit like mirror boxes and out of body VR experiments) and the soothing voice aspect is a sort of mimicry of proto-humans/current higher apes and how they groom each other within the troop.

So you could argue that it is, and there would appear to be enough lewd asmr to indicate that it certainly is for a lot of people, but there is definitely a 'platonic' (couldn't think of a more fitting word) aspect more akin to parent-child bonding, to use a modern parallel because you probably don't just start checking the guy on the bus next to you for fleas and mites.

It's a fairly interesting phenomenon either way and if I ever have to go into psychology research I'm fairly sure I'd look at something like clinical applications of ASMR (a bit like computerised CBT) because a lot of people swear blind that it helps them with their insomnia/anxiety/depression and the like.

I do know of a few studies currently investigating it too but the names elude me.

Either way, it's not a purely sexual thing but there is an aspect of that to it.


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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
it's not. there's plenty of stuff out there that doesn't involve pretty ladies.

I'm sure there's plenty of people out there who watch particular ASMR videos for sexual reasons, and that's probably why the sexual ones are the most popular/viewed and are likely to be the first ones that pop up when you search ASMR.
Last Edit: July 30, 2016, 07:48:41 AM by Dan


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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
(a bit like computerised CBT)

They have computerized cock and ball torture?


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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
so if this happens when a guy cuts my hair it means I'm gay?

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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
It really isn't for normal people.


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it's totally a sexual thing
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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
(a bit like computerised CBT)

They have computerized cock and ball torture?
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https://peerj.com/articles/851/

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17470919.2016.1188851

Found the two studies I was thinking of

Study 1
Provides an overview of what ASMR is and what people experience it from/through, it also looks at rates of synaethesia in conjunction with ASMR-experiencing people and I think the rate was significiantly higher than general population

Study 2
This one is an FMRI thingummyjig that looks at what parts of the brain are activated during ASMR and what the neurological differences are between people who do and don't experience it.


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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
It really isn't for normal people.
normal people are into ASMR?


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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
no it isn't
i experience much more asmr from videos of people drawing on paper than kissing sounds (which doesn't work at all for me)


 
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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
It really isn't for normal people.
normal people are into ASMR?
Okay, for the more normal end if the "community"


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i don't have ASMR but i think it's funny when people try to convince me it's not a sexual thing

it's totally a sexual thing
(a bit like computerised CBT)

They have computerized cock and ball torture?
Remove yourself

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its not a sexual thing at all

its about as sexual as a massage


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its not a sexual thing at all

its about as sexual as a massage
> getting a massage without a happy ending
what a pleb


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its not a sexual thing at all

its about as sexual as a massage
> getting a massage without a happy ending
what a pleb
you probably don't get any massages period


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its not a sexual thing at all

its about as sexual as a massage
> getting a massage without a happy ending
what a pleb
you probably don't get any massages period
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Last Edit: July 30, 2016, 09:13:58 PM by Dan