Male Affection Wasn’t Taboo Until Modern Days – WTF Fun Fact
but tumblr told me they were all gay.
Do you mean to tell me the internet lied.
Most Europeans could’ve told you this. I’ve never met a more comfortable, personal bubble-less bunch then when I was in Eastern Europe.
We stateside are descended from p u r i t a n s
Frfr. It’s pretty ridiculous considering the whole “aversion to physical affection” thing is pretty uniquely American and people in Europe, Africa, and Asia are all kind of looking at us like “huh?”
I think that’s a big part of why those stimming and “totally satisfying“ type videos are so popular. We are starved for human connection and physical sensations.
I’m not even gonna pin this on puritans. Even Puritans were not that bad, especially since they quickly became a minority and are non-existent now as a denomination, and the US was perfectly happy with physical forms of affection until recently.
I really want to look into this more, but this touch starvation thing really is a very recent phenomena, as in, half-a-century or so recent. Instead of blaming a long dead denomination that is not even that terrible concerning sex as people think, we gotta look closely at ourselves and close previous generations that raised us and our parents.
What if the whole Sexual Liberation is why we all became so afraid of touching each other?
Because we’re so ingrained into seeing everything as inherently sexual we stopped being close to each other and giving physical affection because it was deemed on par with a sexual advance?
May perhaps have something to do with why we’re all so fucking neurotic.
Wide Spread Interests 