Where we like being touched, where we don't and why
The blue-outlined black areas highlight taboo zones, where a person with that relationship is not allowed to touch. Blue and red labels signify male and female subjects, respectively
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(CNN)After a series of experiments to determine where, and by whom, people are most comfortable being touched, researchers made some surprising, and some intuitively obvious, findings, recently published in the medical journal PNAS.
Perhaps not so surprising, women are more at ease with being touched than men. And men are more comfortable being touched by a woman than by another man.
But then, men feel more comfortable being touched by strangers than by women. And women were allowed to touch more areas of the body than men.
Where we like being touched, where we don't and why - CNN.com
The blue-outlined black areas highlight taboo zones, where a person with that relationship is not allowed to touch. Blue and red labels signify male and female subjects, respectively
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(CNN)After a series of experiments to determine where, and by whom, people are most comfortable being touched, researchers made some surprising, and some intuitively obvious, findings, recently published in the medical journal PNAS.
Perhaps not so surprising, women are more at ease with being touched than men. And men are more comfortable being touched by a woman than by another man.
But then, men feel more comfortable being touched by strangers than by women. And women were allowed to touch more areas of the body than men.
Where we like being touched, where we don't and why - CNN.com
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