Posted on 05/16/2021 3:56:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SNIP
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.'”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
based in Madison, Wis.
I think I see the issue.
There were plenty of handshakes and hugs in church this morning. Roped-off pews were gone, so all pews were open. Only two masks were worn by a not-healthy elderly couple who wear masks anyhow.
I love hugs. When I get drunk, I’m a hugger.
We just had a friend pass through town and stay with us for a night. The three of us are all over 65. We haven’t been vaxxed and the friend didn’t mention it and we didn’t ask. We did all hug though. She was headed to see other friends when she left us.
‘This is great. I’m not being smothered by any of my aunts’ perfumes?
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Probably smelled like fish.
“opera singer and influencer”
Sorry but what the heck is an influencer?
Sounds like a worthless job Barack Obama had before he was rigged into politics by unknown devious sources.
Glad to hear this news.
Karen is going to hate it.
My family members & friends always hug coming and going. We hugged all through this past year. I will always hug my Mom, no matter what.
I’m not big on hugging strangers though, and it had nothing to do with CovidBS-19.
Hug? I don’t even like to shake hands.
When I moved to Japan, I thought, “This is perfect. They don’t shake hands here.”
Then I found out that they had all been taught always to shake hands with a foreigner.
At least they don’t hug.
Sorry but what the heck is an influencer?
YouTube pitchman - many make a lot of money pitching crap to other youngsters
I saw this little piece of video on a Mark Dice or Salty Cracker video where two SJWs were demonstrating techniques to avoid making human contact. Truly cringeworthy!
The left has succeeded in creating a nation of germophobes!
This whole article is so much bs I needed hip-waiters to read it all
Ah, one of those..
LOL - thanks!
When I am Emperor, holding oneself out as a “social worker” or “influencer” will be punishable by ten lashes and a day in the stocks, because it displeases me.
i dont hug either unless it’s a family member. It feels faggy to me..
But if a Playboy Playmate 2019-2021 of the Month wants to hug me, I’m good with it.
Hugs are fine especially when they coming from fine women. Unfortunately, I am usually hugged by the other end of that particular spectrum. lol
Hugs are fine especially when they coming from fine women. Unfortunately, I am usually hugged by the other end of that particular spectrum. lol
That's two of us! I love you man!
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