To touch

The to touch is one of the five direction of the man, also called tact . There exists with alternatives in all the animal kingdom and certain plants also have tactile reactions.

The touch provides information by contact of the Peau with the surface of the solid bodies and incidentally by exposure to the fluids (water, air, etc). A good part of this information are specific: the temperature or consistency could not be known differently.

It is in the various more or less specialized structures of the skin that it is necessary to seek the premises of the various information worked out by the nervous system.

The touch in its dependence with the skin is the least vulnerable direction: when the sight or hearing is faded, tact still allows a fine interaction with the surrounding world. It is thus exploited by the Amblyopes which use in particular the extreme sensitivity of the fingers to get information and improve their communication. The access to the texts by the system Braille is the major application of this potential.

By regarding the skin as the most important body of the body at least by its extent and knowing the density of the nervous network of the skin, it is comprehensible that the touch allows the strongest, pleasant or painful feelings and that it constitutes a generator not only Plaisir S of a large variety, but also of Sentiment S among deepest:

It is by the skin mainly that we became loving beings| Harlow |The maternal affectional system off rhesus monkeys

The hands on the skin touch the heart with sharp| Christian Bobin

The caress recreates the being which she cherishes| Jean-Paul Sartre

Made gestures, and the feelings will enter the heart| Confucius

The erotogenic potential of the touch confers to him a central place in the life of the human beings: it is at the origin of relations of attachment and allows selective exchanges with other people. Experiments on young monkeys, and even on rats showed the vital role of the Caresse S in psychic balance and even physics.

Other experimenters being interested in the rats showed that the cherished animals are slackened, calm, flexible, trustful and even daring, their training is better, their faster growth, their larger resistance to the affections, their heavier brain. On the other hand, the rats receiving the minimal care in the strict indifference are tended, agitated, apprehensive and aggressive|Dr. Gerard Leleu |The Treaty of the caresses

Its role is considerable in the experiment and the expression of the Tendresse, the exchanges in love and of course in the sexual relations (pressures, kisses, oral caresses, manual caresses, frictions, etc), these exchanges presenting a large variety according to the cultures. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort presents the love thus as “the exchange of two imaginations and the contact of two skins”.

The place occupied by the touch is invested by many practices or techniques aiming at the blooming of the individuals or the disappearance of disorders or pathologies various. Most widespread of these practices is the Massage, applied for example to the premature ones.

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