"Body Map" of where you can and can not touch. SINNER!!!

[1981]

Oh, and although I'm all touchy-feely with a partner, I don't usually touch anyone else anywhere unless they initiate it. It's not that I'm uncomfortable with it, it just doesn't come naturally.

Someone actually got funding for this research? Why? How?

Why? It's science! How? It's science!

 

[Phasmal]

Okay, I'm being slightly hyperbolic, too, but I don't like to be touched by most people, period. PTSD intensifies this desire.

OT: as others have pointed out, this has nothing to do with where you can and can't touch someone, it's an aggregate of where people are okay being touched and not okay being touched, and there's nothing wrong with that. Friend or stranger, I don't want to be touching people where they don't want to be touched. Most of the time, I don't want to be touching people, period.

Yeah, it's mostly a joke because my boyfriend is technically allowed to touch me, but I'm not big on physical contact.
I have some sort of anxiety thing going on myself, so I prefer it if people I'm not close to don't touch me at all.

I hate making other people uncomfortable, so I always err on the side of caution when it comes to that sort of thing. I don't understand people who are cool with just touching someone they don't know very well.

 

[Something Amyss]

Yeah, it's mostly a joke because my boyfriend is technically allowed to touch me, but I'm not big on physical contact.
I have some sort of anxiety thing going on myself, so I prefer it if people I'm not close to don't touch me at all.

I hate making other people uncomfortable, so I always err on the side of caution when it comes to that sort of thing. I don't understand people who are cool with just touching someone they don't know very well.

My SO and I aren't horribly touchy people, so it's not much of an issue for me. We do like to cuddle, but not so much with the other physical contact people like to use.

With regards to other people, I don't like to be touched, so I just...don't touch other people. I've hugged like, two people in the last 11 years without being prompted to, neither of which were usual circumstances.

I am a horribly awkward person.

 

[giles]

Female coworkers have started with "poking" kind of touching after about a week. We get along so whatever. It hasn't bothered me (it's supposed to be a sign of intimacy, right? Maybe attraction?), although I did wonder about an appropriate reaction.
I can't imagine a stranger touching me in the groin though, which is what this article suggests. And even though I have a nice firm ass I'd get rather mad if someone just touched me there - male or female.

Also am I the only one who thought it was funny that women apparently want to be touched all over by their partners, but men are apparently only really comfortable getting their pecs and biceps fondled by their significant other?

 

[EeveeElectro]

Well my female best friend has definitely broken this rule. Damn...

Also my partners better not put their hands anywhere near my stomach or I'll remove them!

 

[RaikuFA]

So it's more okay for female strangers to touch your bellybutton than it is for male ones? Weird. Seems like the kinda thing that should be taboo for everyone.

I think where someone feels comfortable though also can be affected by their environment/ experiences. For example.. When I was in school, someone pulled a school prank where they put thousands of cupie doll heads in many of the lockers so they fell out all over the hall when people opened them. If you do not know what a cupie doll is :

Spoiler: cupie

These dolls, when you poked their belly button made " ah-ha" squeaky noises. So this led to everyone in the school poking everyone else's belly buttons and making doll noises. Now the same people may have no problem with anyone touching their belly buttons due to this because where they grew up that was considered normal. One of these people walking up to someone and poking their belly button and going " ah ha" would not be intended as anything other than what they understood to be a school greeting where they grew up.. HAHA

What about the pillsbury dough boy?