I'm not a natural hugger meaning I don't initiate except in a romantic context. I go to some art workshops where the men hug each other and I'm like, OK, that's nice, let's move on. Ha ha. But I'm not offended or creeped out. They're huggers and I'm not so I don't get weird. Caught off guard maybe, but so what!

Have not held a woman's hand since 2013 wonder what it feels like anymore?

Very calming

Healing and also invigorating...

To me touching is needed for connecting to other people. super important in personal rerlationship.

Very. But it all depends on who's doing the touching and why.

Very important

Only in an intimate relationship, otherwise "DON'T TOUCH ME!"

From "The Rhythm of Love: 40 Beats per Minute" by Natalie Angier in her fascinating book, “Women- An Intimate Geography.”

"Oxytocin has been called the love hormone and the bonding hormone. It’s a dopy, wishful phrase, and a bit reductionist. Still, Oxytocin may be a player in the sensation of love.

“Think of a breastfeeding woman,” Kirsten Uvnas-Moberg of the- Karolinska Institute in Sweden said. She studies nursing mothers, in whom oxytocin is high. “Oxytocin is stimulating her milk letdown- that much is familiar. But milk ejection is only part of the story. Oxytocin, in concert with other peptides, expands blood flow to the breast. The engorgement turns the breast warm, warmer than it’s ever been. Heat radiates from the nursing woman. She feeds the baby fluids and bathes the baby in warmth."

“A mother does more than nurse and warm the baby. As she holds the baby, she strokes the infant to soothe it. ‘You know the right way to stroke somebody,” Uvnas-Moberg says. ‘You know what works and what doesn’t. If you do it like this, too fast, that doesn’t work either. But now, if you do this, if you stroke steadily and calmly, you know this is right, this is good and true.’ She strokes her arm rhythmically and as I watch, I feel vicariously stroked and soothed. ‘This rate is about forty strokes per minute. It is the same rate at which we stroke our pets.’ Oxytocin again enters the picture."

“A steady caress inveigles oxytocin secretion. The gentle rhythmic stroke is like the pulsing of a milk duct, like the rate at which the infant reflexively, rhythmically suckles at the breast. This is the rhythm of love: 40 beats a minute.”

“The rhythm of love. Orgasm is another rhythmic sensation, and it too clocks in at about forty to fifty throbs a minute, and the uterus contracts during orgasm as it does in giving birth. Oxytocin’s frequency; oxytocin’s handiwork.

“In one study, women were asked to masturbate to climax; and their blood levels of oxytocin were measured before and after orgasm. The concentration of oxytocin climbed slightly but measurably with climax, and the greater the increase, the more pleasurable the women reported their climax to be. While breastfeeding, some women say they feel almost orgasmic, their uterus pulsing along with their milk ducts, with the baby’s suckling mouth.”

When giving a massage, my hands are slow and rhythmic, 40 to 50 strokes per minute. People groan with pleasure. During my divorce, I wanted one piece of furniture: the rocking chair in which I nursed Claire. The rhythm of love.

Yes, I like touching and being touched. Someone besides myself. You know how it feels when they wash your hair at the hair cut place? It is analogous. Humans need to touch.

Yes

Yeah I miss touch. The ONLY thing I miss about being married.

I get a theraputic massage once a month and it's worth every penny for my physical and mental health.

Love Touch!
Great part of the human experience! ?

Reiki claims to heal without touch but it is so close to skin or clothes most patients feel the healing heat....it is impossible to get pregnant without touch....even an A.I. syringe is touching a vagina and cervix

Hugging universally could restore our nurturing species and abate violent outbursts by undeserving people....Head Start teaches all students to hug one another but the violence begins in school sports if not at home from violent families....religions sexually mutilate baby boys and young girls by the millions each year.. .we Atheists should set a better example than the xians with their tampon terrorism murdering gynecologists.....John&Yoko did

It is very important to me. But I only do ethical groping... give and take.

Touch is important to everyone. You know that when parts of your body (like your feet) start losing the ability to correctly feel touch.If you are single and find that you sleep with your arms wrapped around yourself your mind is sending you a message.

I love touch. Long lingering hugs, hands exploring her back and depending on her mood, more.

More than most realize. Lack of touch is akin to lack of a certain nutrient and your skin actually becomes 'touch-hungry'. Touch is also an important form of communication that we do almost instinctively but has become much less common in our society.

Most mammals depend upon touch with the co-species.... depriving primates of touch causes extreme stress and personality disorder

As a touch typist I speak to my world and think through my fingers to my eyes and mind @ 65 wpm.... I could not heal myself or my loved ones without TOUCH ...both a great woman and a man band sing touch&mornings.... I joined this site over 2 years ago reaching out NOT like Diamond for love to hold me in lifelong care....teaching and learning love even unto eyelashes I will touch

Extremely important. I love the closeness.

Don't even try it. I don't know where you've been.

It's very important. I miss touch in a relationship, but I don't enjoy touch from people I don't feel an affection for. However, love foot rubs!