{"id":99,"date":"2017-03-06T00:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:32:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T10:32:02","slug":"platonictouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/2017\/03\/06\/platonictouch\/","title":{"rendered":"The lack of platonic touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article this past week on the need of platonic (non sexual) touch for men by Mark Green that can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsforaction.org\/articles\/how-a-lack-of-touch-is-destroying-men\/\">here<\/a>. . I have come to think more on that article. To quote the author \u201cWe crave touch. We are cut off from it.\u00a0The result is\u00a0<em>touch isolation\u201d. <\/em><em>Touch isolation or not? For my self i am a quite physical person, especially as I have a lot of friends of the opposite gender. Therefore I am not isolated from touch but many other are.<\/em>Bruce Springsteen<em> wrote <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201dWe don&#8217;t have to call it love, we just need a human touch&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/85cNRQo1m3A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Touch is important. Touch creates bonds between people. May this be a result of the ideal of a man?. The ideal to always be strong, wise and work hard. The soft man like my self is often seen with an eye of silliness. I don\u2019t think that you don\u2019t always have to be strong. Touching is daring to vulnerable. By daring to be vulnerable we can see each other and by the non sexual touch we create connections to each other.<\/p>\n<p>When I studied psychology in high school I came across a book named \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Healing-Touch-Introduction-Organismic-Psychotherapy\/dp\/0940795019\"><em>The healing touch: an introduction to organismic psychotherapy<\/em><\/a>\u201d by the American gestalt therapist Malcolm Brown.\u00a0 He used touch in therapy as a way to unlock trauma patients through the therapy together with his wife. Touch can be both healing and scarring. If you like I, have experienced abuse of touch it is hard to let people touch you. Anyhow an important lesson is that we need a certain amount of touch everyday.<\/p>\n<p>The necessity of touch is clear and I think Mark Green is something on the way. Touch doesn\u2019t have to be sexual, and if men don\u2019t touch it will be very difficult with dating. Holding and caring must be revived! Not sexualized touch but non sexual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an article this past week on the need of platonic (non sexual) touch for men by Mark Green that can be read here. . I have come to think more on that article. To quote the author \u201cWe crave touch. We are cut off from it.\u00a0The result is\u00a0touch isolation\u201d. Touch isolation or not? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,12,11],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-creating-bonds","tag-psychology","tag-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreaslindholm.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}