Physical affection.
So who here, after reading that, thought of simple affection? Or did you're mind just naturally go to the gutter? (Where my mind is, hello!)
I was just thinking, dangerous hobby of mine, that human beings are just not that into physical affection like they used to be. Giving or recieving. I find if you touch someone's hand they whip it away like you just gave them an extra coating of cooties!
I was just finishing re-re-re-re-reading "Little women" (don't judge me), and I noticed that in a lot of these "olden day" books, natural physical affection was just a part of life. Hugging, holding hands or arms, petting, all of this was just second nature to show warm feelings to another person.
I suppose part of the reason people are so twitchy about it now is all the paranoia that comes with people being such strangers to each other. 'Stranger Danger' and all those fun rhyming things we have to teach our kids.
If you see a guy kissing a younger girl, everyone thinks, Paedo alert! No one thinks, dad saying goodbye to daughter. A guy ruffles another guy's hair, it's not because he's feeling good will towards him but because he can't control his rampant homo-erotic urges!
But humans are physical critters. We love physical contact of all sorts. But we hang back because "What if..."
And so we all go through life, scared to touch each other even as we cry out to be touched.
Want a hug?
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