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Something I've been meaning to write about for a while
8.45pm before I got home yesterday evening, due to a car crashing into a bus and blocking the road. I was tired enough as it was - I could have done without that, but anyway.....
While writing an email to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chocaholic7 last night, I happened to suggest, inter alia, that finding someone to hold your hand might help when doing something frightening. The question is why - *why* is it comforting to have someone hold your hand?
That all linked in with something that had half occurred to me the last time I did a purity test. Normally the 'have you held hands with someone?' question comes right at the beginning of the test - before such things as 'have you ever been on a blind date?'. While I've certainly been on blind dates (for RAG, you fools, for RAG), I can't recall ever holding hands with someone, until a very random night in the Zodiac - and even then, my purpose in holding his hand was simply to stop him walking towards a group of people to whom I really didn't want to talk.....
I once issued ballot papers for a couple of hours, and was told to stamp voters' hands after they'd voted as a security measure. Touching people like that was something I found rather odd to start with.
I think I see holding hands as a particularly intimate form of touch - but I really don't know why I think that - perhaps because of the sensitivity of finger tips - perhaps because it's more likely to be skin-to-skin, than most other casual forms of touch.
Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone going to tell me *why* I feel like this?
While writing an email to
chocaholic7 last night, I happened to suggest, inter alia, that finding someone to hold your hand might help when doing something frightening. The question is why - *why* is it comforting to have someone hold your hand?That all linked in with something that had half occurred to me the last time I did a purity test. Normally the 'have you held hands with someone?' question comes right at the beginning of the test - before such things as 'have you ever been on a blind date?'. While I've certainly been on blind dates (for RAG, you fools, for RAG), I can't recall ever holding hands with someone, until a very random night in the Zodiac - and even then, my purpose in holding his hand was simply to stop him walking towards a group of people to whom I really didn't want to talk.....
I once issued ballot papers for a couple of hours, and was told to stamp voters' hands after they'd voted as a security measure. Touching people like that was something I found rather odd to start with.
I think I see holding hands as a particularly intimate form of touch - but I really don't know why I think that - perhaps because of the sensitivity of finger tips - perhaps because it's more likely to be skin-to-skin, than most other casual forms of touch.
Anyone have any thoughts? Anyone going to tell me *why* I feel like this?