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Encyclopedia > Lip service

Lip service is the name of the situation in which someone complies with a certain obligation, or expectation, they have been subjected to, to the minimum possible extent. People paying lip service usually do so because they have no intention to comply any more than they are forced to.


For example, Scientologists use a device, which they describe as being able to read stress, but advertising regulations in English law require that they state that the device has no scientific merit whatsoever, since their claims have not been proven to the satisfaction of the Advertising Standards Authority. Consequently, they pay lip service to the requirement by indicating the lack of scientific merit in small print, but nevertheless advertise the device as useful, and heavily advertise offers of free stress-tests with it. Scientology is a system of beliefs and practices created by American pulp fiction author [1][2] L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 as a self-help philosophy. ... Consumer protection is government regulation to protect the interests of consumers, for example by requiring businesses to disclose detailed information about products, particularly in areas where safety or public health is an issue, such as food. ... English law is a formal term of art that describes the law for the time being in force in England and Wales. ... The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent British self regulatory organisation (SRO) of the advertising industry. ...


The term is also used as a slang (emerging out of homosexual culture) for cunnilingus, the act of using the mouth and tongue to stimulate the female genitals, especially the clitoris and labia. Sometimes also referred to as giving lip (see oral sex). Oral sex consists of all the sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, tongue, etc. ... A womans clitoris extends from the visible portion to a point below the pubic bone. ... Labium (pl. ... Oral sex (from Latin os, oris mouth) consists of all the sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth and tongue, to stimulate genitalia. ...


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Lips also lack sebaceous, or oil, glands to help keep them lubricated, so this little swath of skin is at a disadvantage in the softness department.
It has mega-moisturizing ingredients to soften lips and lock in moisture and micro fine nanoparticles of zinc oxide (the white stuff life guards slick on their noses but refined into imperceptible particles about 1/80,000th the diameter of a human hair) deliver an SPF rating of 15 that blocks both UVA and UVB rays.
According to the Cancer Research Foundation, lips are a particularly susceptible place for skin cancer because of their constant sun exposure, so always use a lip product with a SPF of at least 15 and apply it about 15 minutes before you go out.
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