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"are we living through a crisis of touch?"

"Humans love touch. We love it so much that the word has the power to sell a heap of products from soft-touch pillows to velvet touch tights, expert touch saucepans and even smooth, perfecting touch face creams. But touching each other in an age of pervasive and historical sexual abuse and harassment no longer feels safe.
There is a hypervigilance of boundaries that makes it hard to find the right approach."

Francis McGlone, professor in neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores university and a leader in the field of affective touch


"“You just don’t see people touching each other these days,” Tiffany Field, founder of the Touch Research Institute, complains. She has just come from a restaurant “and everybody was on their cellphones.” At LaGuardia airport recently, she walked around the waiting area “Not a soul was touching another. Even two-year-olds were sitting in carriages with iPads on their laps” (Getting touch from their touch screens).

Tiffany Field, founder of the Touch Research Institute


in https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/mar/07/crisis-touch-hugging-mental-health-strokes-cuddles

+ link to a Talk by Professor Francis McGlone, 

Professor in Neuroscience at Liverpool JohnMoores University, 

School of Natural Sciences and Psychology: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md91EYhyY8w