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Tubercle, aka
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ly five. Fe wer melanocy
lips, on ni n pigment),
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make the skin lig e pr om inent,
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Comes from the Old
English word “lippa” or
“lippe”. Lips are used for
PHOTOGRAPHY: SPAOLO PINEDA TJERICO MONTEMAYOR, RIA REGINO

three things: taking in

food, verbalizing words
through sound, and best
of all, kissing.

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THE B E T T
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men’s ga zes, d and
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seconds of og t pi nk . This is
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Stuart Brody, a psychology professor at the University of the West of
Scotland, claimed that women with prominent tubercles orgasmed faster
than women with flat upper lips. Although the research and survey received
a lot of criticism and its results deemed insignificant by detractors, the
authors argue that neural circuits that shape the lip bump and affect vaginal
orgasm in women are the same. Go figure.