Ate too many habaneros and now I’m paying for it.
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Our anus has taste receptors like many other places in the body. Taste receptors are one type of receptors our body uses to measure variois chemical content. We have taste receptors around our heart, stomach, testicle and many other places. These are NOT the same as taste buds, but some wise guy on the internet found out we have testicular taste receptors and thought he could dip his balls in soy sauce. DOESN’T WORK (or at least not without being psychosomatic). Taste receptors are very important for signaling to your brain that the proper amounts of various compounds are present in the parts of the body they need to be present it. You have heat receptors in your anus, which are the same receptors that occur in your eyes, mouth and vagina.
If you think about it, you don’t sense the heat of a pepper that is on your skin, right? That’s because our skin doesn’t have receptors that can sense it. But you sure as hell will feel it when it gets in your eye. Anyway, to summarize we only sense external stimuli when we have the receptors to sense them.
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