A complete opposite of the linked article is this article I have saved because I found it well-written and sort of amusing: https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be

A complete opposite of the linked article is this article I have saved because I found it well-written and sort of amusing: https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c https://medium.com/s/story/how-to-be-polite-9bf1e69e888c As someone who is a oxytocin junkie, getting old and living a life where no one is touching me, partly because they want to be polite, sounds like a total nightmare. I hope a cat will be enough and that I'm allowed to have a cat. Without touching I slowly become bitter and dead inside. I go to the gym and try to live healthy so I can be independent till I drop. Years ago I read an article about "skin hunger" and found it described me. The barber I went to to fix my hair spent some extra minutes massaging my scalp. Goosebumps all over my body. Then I started to go to massages. And from there things have escalated. :) I've now been getting lessons how to massage and also have discovered I enjoy soft touching more than massage unless I'm in pain. I specifically searched for touching massages and met a wonderful older lady that talked about meditation and touching. It's a fantastic feeling to use all the senses. First just barely touch the hair on the body, then barely touch the skin. Slowly increase the pressure and the amount of touch. And when it's time for oil, the oil is warm and almost hot. The feeling of getting warm oil dropped onto the body is amazing. Every time a sense is starting to get "blunt", you change pressure, amount of surface and temperature. After those sessions I'm often high as if drugged.