Taking our parents in our arms, kissing our friends, exchanging a simple handshake during a date ... So many gestures that social distancing has prohibited us for over a year.
While some people experience this sanitization of human relationships relatively well, which allows them to escape the rigorous kisses, many suffer from what researchers call
“touch starvation”,
or
“tactile starvation”
.
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The first of the five senses to develop in utero, touch is indeed essential to our well-being: it allows us to create links and to feel that we exist.
Numerous studies have thus demonstrated the benefits of “skin to skin” for the development of premature babies.
Others have shown, in Romanian orphanages of the post-Ceausescu era, that children deprived of contact during the first years of their life subsequently suffered from irreversible deficiencies (cognitive retardation, impaired growth, etc.).
In 2013, the American researcher Kory Floyd also
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