May I touch you?

Is it ok if I touch you, hold your hand, exchange a chaste, closed-mouth, peck on the lips…. without it being sexual?

I promise, I don’t want to 'trip you up' and squat on you with squelching, sucking sounds, moans and screams.

I don’t want to get you in a lip-lock, 'thrusting my tongue down your throat’. I really don’t, promise.

Is it “social” media? Is it media, in general?

I think that these days people are talking about things related to sex and gender in more depth and detail than ever before.

I think that, in general, many people are feeling a lot of fear, feeling forced to confront parts of themselves that they’ve kept hidden, “pushed down”, to the back of their minds, often doing such a “good job”, that they remain in total denial of those parts of their sexual and sensual selves.

Does it have something to do with maintaining 'boundaries’? Are so many people so intensely afraid of being close to another human being, that they can’t even stand to be touched at all?

Maybe a lot of people are misunderstanding the nature of 'healthy boundaries’, using the idea to indulge every little fear that they have, no matter how silly and unhealthy.

Perhaps they are taking some sort of self-satisfied pride in “enforcing my boundaries”, when they are only…