*facepalm* Heheh. Oh, Lady. 'normal hugs.'

You remind me of 'Dr. Strangelove,' 'Don't try any preversions!'

Many normal hugs I get daily. A few Pagan hugs would be nice on occasion but please, please no voodoo curses or Wiccan spells with said hugs!!!

I think you *do* need a hug, CCNL. :)

OK,is everyone ready?

Now send your hugs and other "touchies" to Paganplace and her friends aka the Triple Goddesses!!!

Now we can all sleep in peace!!!

And, not to put *too fine* a point on it:

"But you might look at it differently than the heterosexual population."

Well, I'm bi. If every time I gave someone a hug, it was about my sexual orientation, I guess I'd be having a real interesting time.

In mockery, you mentioned the 'Triple Goddess.'

That's *Maiden, Mother, and Crone.*

It's not about sex.

Exactly, CCNL, you think it's 'heterosexual' to only mention hugging people of the opposite sex, as you said below, (And I guess, presumably, that it'd be 'gay' to have real contact with another human being if they weren't a sex you desire.) Wherever 'handshakes' even enter into it.

As I said, I think that's *why* you claim there's 'no feeling.' Amid all your other fixations... Or why anyone even has to *make an article about the healing benefits of touch* in this world.

It should be *obvious,* never mind something for you to argue against and strut your heterosexuality about.

Simple. Human. Contact.

Do you read?

Paganplace, Paganplace, Paganplace,

Touching as in shaking hands. Hugging as in arm wrapping in complete body contact of any gender. But you might look at it differently than the heterosexual population.

I guess, too, to try and get this thread back on track:

Simple. Human. Contact.

How did that end up getting so *alien?*

I think we can see a bit of how, here.

No? No comment? I'll spell it out, shall I:

Yes, CCNL, you *sexualize* everything: you only hug people of the opposite sex, ...and go out of your way to claim so, and say there's 'not much feeling' in it?

Exactly.

Exactly.

This thread is about *healing,* not your homophobia.

'Nuff said, I think. :)

Ahh, Paganplace has been touched by her great Horned God this evening. What a "tender" rant!!!

Actually, I am a great hugger of those who resemble the Triple Goddess!!!! Bottom line, there is not much feeling in touching someone.

CCNL: "Doctors already "touch" us up too much!!!! Got to keep paying those country club fees!!!"

You're a prime example, CCNL. Near everything you *post* describes you sexualizing all touch by anyone, and therefore trying to scorn and avoid it by your own logic.

You're far more comfortable with ideas about porn made on the Net for *your* titillation than you are about the idea of people lovingly touching each other.

I think someone taught you to be *afraid* of touch to such an extent that you don't even *understand* it anymore. So you must *hate* on people and try to reduce them and any relationship not based on your biological abstractions to something that allows you to feel *insulated* from the necessity for human contact or anything outside what you can perceive yourself to control.

I think you are the *poster child* for a touch-starved society, actually.

Doctors already "touch" us up too much!!!! Got to keep paying those country club fees!!!

Touch. That's *key.*

It was one observation that I had when I got out into the world... that so much of Christianity *stigmatizes* simple touch these days, behind inhibitions and really being so *permeated* with suspicion of all touch as 'sexual sin' or possibly being related thereto...

That it seems much of our nation is, to put it plainly, *touch-starved.*

We're social creatures. Touch, as described, is directly associated, in our minds and bodies, and from our deepest, oldest instincts, with well-being and all the good stuff.