Touch
What is a Touch? "After a while, as suggested, a touch receptor 'adapts' to the stimuli and stops responding, which is just as well or we would be driven crazy by the feel of a light sweater against the skin on a cool summer's evening, or go berserk if a breeze didn't quit." - Diane Akerman (A Natural History of the Senses) I chose to do two different photos of silhouettes of a man, one with and without a shirt, to show the subtle differences in his figure. It may seem like it would only seem like a subtle difference in life if our touch receptors were stronger, but our world would be totally different. Even the simple act of wearing cloths or jewelry would irritate our skin and make it almost impossible. The Inner Climate "Receptors for warmth lie deeper in the skin, and there are fewer of them. Not surprisingly, the tongue is more sensitive to heat than many other areas of the body. If hot soup can pass the tongue test, it p...