Tactile moves

Are more important than many realize.
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As with so many changes taking place today touching is undergoing change.
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In many countries today touching someone is dangerous.
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Dangerous because it can lead to a law suit.
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Because it is no longer culturally acceptable to touch someone.
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Because in these politically correct times touching can provoke ideas of harassment or worse.
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Some cultures are more worried about touching than others.
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Differences there are for sure between a country like Sweden and one say like Italy.
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These differences are well known and each culture defines it's own limits on how much people touch each other.
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And so why might this be important?
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Humans are social creatures and touching each other is as old as humanity itself.
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Take away or redefine something as old as touching and you change much more than the act itself.
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You change society.
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Touching can be good or bad, promiscuous or helping, hard or gentle.
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Where it is going we cannot say today.
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One thought though.
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If you did not get touched as a child chances are you do not touch others much now that you are an adult.
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If you were touched and cuddled as a child chances are you do the same now to those you feel for.
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Much more important than political correctness.
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We are talking about something that defines who we are to ourselves and to others..
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Touching is instinctive
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Touching can be learnt.
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It helps our psychological balance.
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Hope we do not allow political correctness to drive away something so important to life and our experience of it.