ABSTRACT
In To Love is to Touch , the anthropologist Desmond Morris relates how, in this ever more crowded world, we have ceased to touch each other and to see how dangerous this untouchability can be. In his lengthy discussion of what a humane gesture a friendly slap on the back can be, and how much value it can carry, he goes on to describe it as an act of love: “Touch is our most fundamental sense. It is sometimes known as the sense from which all others come. What a shame it is, most especially if we don’t even notice it happening, but the less we touch each other, the greater the distance between us.”
