Touch Isolation

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/touch-isolation-how-homophobia-has-robbed-all-men-of-touch/

The article contends that young men are literally dying of touch isolation. After childhoods full of touch and tenderness, they go through a desert decade (actually, longer) before they can reliably expect to have it in their lives again in a regular, consensual, constructive way.

And what happens in that gap? Homophobia, stress, isolation.

No wonder so many boys are turning to drugs, online games, and are desperate for teen sex: they’re dying of loneliness and shame for want of something all mammals desire at their core.