Skin hunger

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What is Skin Hunger ?

Touch is important for humans and its deprivation can lead to mental and physical issues. Here, experts tell us how to deal with such a situation

This is why doctors let mothers have skin to skin contact with their child right after birth,” she explains. Human touch has many benefits. It helps calm the nervous system, boost the immune system, activate the hormone oxytocin that is critical for bonding, reduce the production of the stress hormone called cortisol, lower blood pressure and heart rate.

I find this experience from the 1950s very interesting. Harry Harlow conducted an experiment on baby monkeys. They were taken from their mothers and given either a "mother" made of wire or a soft, comfortable "mother" made of terry cloth. In some cases the wire mother had food, in others the soft, comfortable mother. The study assumed that the monkeys would turn to the "mother" that had food. But this was not the case. Food or not, the monkeys much preferred the mother they could cuddle.