Humans need to be touched. Touching is an intrinsic deep emotional need. It is an intimate form of communication. Intimacy is not to be confused with sexual desire. Failure to be touched often enough even has a name – touch starvation. Like a starving person will aggressively seek food, a touch starved person will aggressively seek to touch and be touched. It can result in pushing, shoving, hitting, kicking, and rape. An individual who has experienced touch starvation for too long will become dull and listless.
The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck