A popular NHS doctor on TikTok explained that people who enjoy spicy food may have kinky tendencies. Speaking to his 4.4 million followers, Dr. Raj said: “If you like spicy food you might be just a little bit kinky.” He explains that “Capsaicin, the chemical found in most spicy food, binds to pain receptors in your tongue.”
“So if you enjoy spicy food, I guess you could say it’s a weird form of benign masochism—you like pain just a bit.” Dr. Raj continued in his video, which has amassed more than 1.5 million likes: “In fact, if you eat a lot of spicy foods this desensitizes pain receptors, so you keep wanting to get spicier and spicier so you can feel the burn.” Although Dr. Raj’s theory isn’t proven, spicy food as an indicator of someone’s sexual tendencies is nothing new—there is some evidence that capsaicin is an aphrodisiac because, by creating the sense of pain on the tongue, it releases an adrenaline-type hormone.
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Check out more about how spicy food lovers are kinkier: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/16645155/if-you-like-spicy-food-kinky/
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