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Touch Hunger

Speaking of Sex with The Pleasure Mechanics

CHAPTER

The Healing Power of Affectionate Touch

We will talk about options if you are living solo and don't currently have a lover like there are strategies to employ to make sure that you are receiving more touch and pressure on your body. There's lots of research about the medical implications both of the deprivation of touch and the nourishing restorative life-giving properties of affectionate touch. We've watched this transformation happen where really dire circumstances suddenly flourish in our lives. So many of us are starving when it comes to affection and nourishing loving touch and it can bring me to tears to think about what that feels like.

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