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An example of Functional touching is when I had my teeth cleaned a few months ago at my dentist’s office. I felt comfortable allowing an acquaintance to scrap my teeth with a small tool in the confines of a private office. I would not be comfortable with a napkin pinned to my shirt with drool spilling out of my mouth wide-open mouth in the grocery store.

A co-worker giving me a fist-bump today over weight loss success is an example of Social touching. In the privacy of our bedroom on Valentine’s Day, if I whisper sweet-nothings and my husband offers me a fist-bump, I would be upset, to say the least.

In an example of Friendship touching, my female friend hugged me tightly—finishing with a squeeze—after our last dinner party. At my local

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