Here’s a link to a great article that talks about how important physical contact is for humans.
The Benefits Of Hugging Article
I’d heard before about studies that have shown how primates cannot survive without physical touch as infants, but this article does a good job elaborating about the benefits of physical touch for humans.
It also talks about how sex and physicality are often confused, hence our apprehension about non-sexual touch. Unfortunately our misunderstanding of the physical also dimishes our understanding of the sexual, which is another primal need.
What a bummer that more people just don’t get this; being physical doesn’t equal being sexual. And equally true, being sexual isn’t merely physical.
Sexual chemistry and connection and feeling sexy; these are all in the brain as much in the body.
Here at The Goddess Dances, I’m very big on celebrating sexuality primarily because I see it dismissed so often. In the realm of dance, sexuality is considered a lowly, distastful attribute.
The sexual aspect of dance, which has been so visceral and real in my own experience, is often contraversial and deliberately shunned.
But we confuse non-sexual for sexual, physical for sexual and then we just try and negate all aspects of sexuality because it’s just to damn messy and confusing!
Certainly there are many women who resent being seen soley as sex objects or who’ve been the victims of sexual violence.
I absolutely respect that.
But can’t there be a way to see both sides of this?
Sexuality, by nature, is wild and boundless. It’s dangerous and liberting at the same time. I don’t think it desirable, (or even really possible), to force it into a neat little box.
What do you think?
