Sunday, November 10, 2013
#5 Improves Communication
Family and marriage counselors, recommend cuddling to couples who have intimacy issues. It is supposed to be a very useful mode of communication, especially at times when words fail you. All relationships hinge on communication both verbal and non-verbal. You can easily give your partner a cuddle to say “I Understand” in moments of crisis or sorrow. Sometimes this is a better way of communicating to your close partner than through words, and can lead to long lasting rich relationship between couples. When a child is hurt and is weeping too, a good cuddle can do what the best antiseptic cannot. It can be used as a means to convey empathy and sympathy in addition to love and affection.
#4 Helps Bond Women with Partners
Cuddling helps where emotional bonding and attachment is warranted. The chemical, Oxytocin plays an important part in biological bonding especially between babies and their mothers. It is not only related to childbirth but also aids in generating breast milk, when the baby cuddles up to the mother. Babies and infant who are brought up with secure bonding find it easier, in later life, to form similar such attachments. Similarly it is good to want to be close physically to your partner as emotions are again involved here and helps in your relationship too.
#3 It Reduces Stress and Blood Pressure
The modern day issue of stress can be significantly reduced by just cuddling and increasing physical contact. Touching and more specifically hugging and cuddling releases a hormone, Oxytocin called a bonding chemical. This substance considerably helps bring down blood pressure and thus prevents heart diseases. It generally helps you relax, rest and prevents anxiety too.
#2 Increases Sexual Desire
There is also the release of dopamine, which is an excitatory hormone that increases sexual desire. When you cuddle with you partner, it is clear that you want to get intimate in a physical manner. Cuddling is beneficial before or after sexual intercourse. It can either lead to good sexy fun time with your partner or lead to cozy relaxing period afterwards. Added to all this, the hormone dopamine, that can excite one sexually is also released when you cuddle. Since studies have shown that a good sex life is beneficial for physical and mental health, the benefits of cuddling become manifold.
Cuddling has many more benefits than earlier imagined. It helps release the hormone Oxytocin, which is believed to make you feel generally good about yourself. Cuddling and holding helps release this chemical substance, which gives rise to a feeling of overall well being and joy. Another hormone, endorphins are also believed to be generated by cuddling which gives you a great feeling.This is the same chemical that is released after a good exercise, like jogging, etc and also when you have lots of chocolates.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Saving a Life
A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
Love You, Coco
Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March 2012.
A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.
Love You, Coco
Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March 2012.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Who doesn’t love baby photography, One of the most challenging and time consuming type of photography. It is easily one of the hardest kinds just because of the sheer amount of unexpected drama with the kids. It is also one of the most popular kind of photography too. You see baby photography all around. This gives you an idea of how the pictures are taken of the children. Some of the popular ways of getting a baby photography idea is by looking at the various posters made out of their pictures.
We have collected some of the best baby photography examples which will give you an idea of how to take them and master the art of capturing those golden moments.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
You've got to kiss a lot of frogs to find your prince, as the saying goes. New research suggests the cliché is true on an evolutionary level.
Kissing might have evolved as a way to assess the quality of potential mates, according to two new studies. Women, who tend to be pickier about romantic entanglements than men, also care more about kissing in the first phases of a relationship, suggesting that make-outs may weed out duds. What's more, women are especially attuned to the importance of kissing during fertile phases of the menstrual cycle.
Kissing exists in virtually every culture on Earth, said study researcher Rafael Wlodarski, a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. Some of the oldest records left by humanity, including the Hindu Veda and ancient Egyptian wall murals, depict kissing.
"Because it's so common," Wlodarski told LiveScience, "it might serve a purpose."
The evolution of make-outs
Theories about why kissing matters fall into three categories. Some believe kissing evolved to help people assess potential mates, perhaps by transmitting pheromones, or chemical signals that could carry information about health or immune compatibility.
"It's just an excuse to get two people who are interested in each other close enough to have a sniff," Wlodarski said.
No particular compound has been proven to be a human pheromone, but there is evidence that scent carries information. One study published in April 2013 found that women prefer the scent of men who have high levels of the masculine hormone testosterone.
Kissing also may have evolved to keep romantic pairs bonded, or to increase arousal prior to sex. To test these theories, Wlodarski and his colleagues recruited 902 American and British adults to answer questions about their attitudes toward kissing.
The participants rated how important they considered kissing at various stages in relationships. The approximately half of participants who were in relationships also reported how much they and their partners kissed, and how satisfied they were in the relationship.
The results gave little support to the notion that kissing evolved to ease the way to sex (even if it may often be used that way). People in short-term relationships saw kissing as most important right before sex, but there was no other indication that people use kissing primarily as a sexual warm-up act. In fact, people in relationships closely associated the amount and quality of their kisses with relationship satisfaction. The more kissing, the happier they were. The amount of sex, on the other hand, wasn't related to relationship satisfaction at all.
Pucker up
The latter finding suggests kissing serves a pair-bonding purpose, helping couples show affection and commitment. But kissing also seems to help people gauge relationship potential.
If kissing is a way to assess mates, the pickiest people should place the highest importance on kissing. This appears to be the case: Women, who take on the risk of gestating, birthing and caring for a child when they have sex, are generally more choosy about mates than men. They're also more likely than men to rate kissing as important, and more likely to say that an initial kiss had changed their attraction to another person, Wlodarski and his colleagues found.
People who rated themselves as attractive — and thus who likely can afford to be picky — were also the most interested in kissing and the most likely to say that a kiss could sway their perceptions of attraction. Wdolarski and his colleagues report these findings in an upcoming issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
A second study by the researchers, this one published in the September issue of the journal Human Nature, examined only female attitudes toward kissing. If kissing communicates some information about health, fertility or genetic compatibility, the thinking went, women who are at risk of conceiving are more likely to think kissing is important — after all, they might end up with a baby if the romance goes well.
The researchers surveyed 84 American and British women, asking them to report the dates of their menstrual cycle and to answer questions about how important kissing is in various stages of a relationship. Fifty of the women were in the luteal, or less-fertile, phase of their cycle, and 34 were in the late follicular phase, the point at which fertility peaks.
The most fertile women were more likely than the least fertile women to say that kissing in the early stages of the relationship is important, lending credence to the idea that they might be subconsciously sniffing out the best genes for their potential offspring. Both groups were equally likely to say kissing later in a relationship is important, potentially pointing to kissing's bond-cementing role.
"At different times in the relationship, [kissing] is used for different things," Wlodarski said. He next plans to move beyond kissing into even murkier depths.
"I'm interested in doing more research on what love is in humans," he said. "What is it that makes us so intimately attracted to one specific person?"
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Riot police walk the street as a couple kiss on June 15, 2011 in Vancouver, as the city broke out in riots, following the Vancouver Canucks loss in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals.
*UPDATE*
Scott Jones says he was just trying calm his girlfriend down after they both had been hit by Vancouver police when the now-famous photos of them lying in the street and kissing was taken in the midst of Wednesday night’s riot.
“They started beating us with the shields, like trying to get us to move,” Jones told CBC News in an exclusive television interview Friday.
“We weren’t being aggressive towards [police] or anything like that. But eventually they passed over us. And that’s when we were on the ground. She was a bit hysterical afterwards, obviously, and I was just trying to calm her down,” said Jones, 29, an Australian who’s been in Canada for six months.
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