Posted on 05/16/2021 3:56:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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There are reasons so many humans feel comforted by hugging. Like a massage, it “involves stimulation and pressure receptors, and when that happens, the whole nervous system slows down and stress hormone is reduced,” says Tiffany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
Still, for some, hugs induce stress more than they relieve it. When Sam Zelinka, a federal-government research scientist based in Madison, Wis., gets a hug from anyone other than his wife or kids, he gets the same feeling as when a stranger stands too close to him. And while Zelinka, 38, isn’t about to “spray paint a T-shirt and march in the streets yelling about no hugs,” he’s not exactly looking forward to one from anyone but his parents.
“The people that hug me, I’m like, faced into their chest,” says Shantal Martin, a 27-year-old opera singer and influencer, who’s about 5-foot-2. When she left New York City in August to visit her family in Barbados, she found herself relieved at her relatives’ cautious distance in greeting her. “I was like, ‘This is great. I’m not being smothered by any of my aunts’ perfumes? Perfect.'”
Brooke Todd, a 24-year-old social worker in Stroudsburg, Pa., tends to tense up when someone moves to hug her, and she didn’t totally make sense of how much calmer her social life had become during the pandemic until last summer. “It took a few months, but suddenly I was like, ‘Oh, this is nice. I don’t look like a jerk all the time for not wanting to hug someone.'”
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When this virus
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Yeah, Rashida Tlaib and Maxine Waters in a reception line. Yuck.
-PJ
When I get drunk, I’m a hugger.....If she has huge ta-tas I am too.
I am not much of a hugger except for family members, but my wife is Serbian and her family and friends not only hug, but give three kisses on the cheeks. I have hugged and kissed people I don’t even know.
Except when it comes to pets. I’ll stop there before I get into trouble :)
A federal government research scientist, an opera singer and a social worker walk into a bar...
“Sorry but what the heck is an influencer?”
Think Kim Kardashian.
I hear you - a negative influencer.
“I hear you - a negative influencer.”
Sort of. But more like an unskilled useless self promoter with no redeeming social value. At least that’s how I see it. I could be wrong. Maybe there are positive influencers, and that would depend on the perception of the influencee.
A 27 year old “influencer”? A true sign of the apocalypse.
Hugging costs extra
I think a few of them still have penises
One of the reasons Kim is divorcing Kanye is she is tired of taking him to the ER to have all those Hot Wheel cars he stuffs up his butt removed
Rashida does have a heck of a rack
Depends on who’s doing the hugging. If you get my drift.
“Brooke Todd, a 24-year-old social worker in Stroudsburg, Pa., tends to tense up when someone moves to hug her, and she didn’t totally make sense of how much calmer her social life had become during the pandemic until last summer. “It took a few months, but suddenly I was like, ‘Oh, this is nice. I don’t look like a jerk all the time for not wanting to hug someone.’””
LOL. Funny.
I love you, man!
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