The Seer

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After four hundred years of Puritan oppression, we in the Western World are painfully cold people. Since nearly all physical contact is construed as potentially sexual, people constantly avoid touching each other. Those “licensed” to touch, like doctors, barbers, hairdressers, and
tailors, are careful to remain as impersonal as possible lest they be accused of making an advance.

The simple fact remains, however, that you can use your hands to bring immense pleasure to another human being without the coldness of traditional therapy and outside the intimacies of sex. There is a wide spectrum of human feeling between the poles of therapy and sex — it could be referred to as the sensual.

by Gordon Inkeles in his ground-breaking book, The Art of Sensual Massage

Here’s a nice little YouTube video clip about the Free Hugs Campaign.