Personal grooming
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| - | '''Ritual purification''' is a feature of many [[religion]]s. The aim of these [[ritual]]s is to remove specifically defined ''uncleanliness'' prior to a particular type of activity, and especially prior to the worship of a [[deity]]. This ritual uncleanliness is not however identical with ordinary physical impurity, such as dirt stains; nevertheless, all [[body fluid]]s are generally considered ritually unclean, and some religions have special treatment of [[semen]] and [[menses]], which are viewed as particularly unclean. | ||
| - | Most of these rituals existed long before the [[germ theory of disease]], and figure prominently from the earliest known [[Ancient Near Eastern religion|religious systems of the Ancient Near East]]. Some writers remark that similarities between cleansing actions, engaged in by [[obsessive compulsive disorder]] sufferers and those of religious purification rites, point to an ultimate origin of the rituals in the [[personal grooming]] behaviour of the [[primates]], but others connect the rituals to primitive [[taboo]]s. | + | '''Personal grooming''' (also called '''titivating''' and '''preening''') is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. It is a [[species-typical behavior]] that is controlled by [[Biological neural network|neural circuits]] in the [[brain]]. |
| - | Some have seen benefits of these practices that as a point of health and preventing infections especially in areas where humans come in close contact with each other. While these practices came before the idea of the germ theory was public in areas that use daily cleaning, the destruction of infectious agents seems to be dramatic. | + | == See also == |
| + | * [[Preen gland]] | ||
| + | * [[Wound licking]] | ||
| + | * [[Acral lick dermatitis]] | ||
| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[Sweat lodge]] | ||
| - | * [[White Sage|Smudging]] | ||
| - | * [[Eleusinian Mysteries]] | ||
| - | * [[Churching of women]] | ||
| - | * [[Leviticus]] | ||
| - | * [[Candlemas]] | ||
| - | * [[Sattva]] | ||
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Personal grooming (also called titivating and preening) is the art of cleaning, grooming, and maintaining parts of the body. It is a species-typical behavior that is controlled by neural circuits in the brain.
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