The Touch-Starved Adult
Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2026 10:42 pm
For most of human history, children have been integrated into social and cultural life and the eroticism of child bodies was tolerated, taken for granted and did not even need to be mentioned because it was experienced by everyone in the community in daily life: humans routinely coddled, fondled, groomed children in the community and children reciprocated sexual exploration of the adults bodies. For single people today and in particular exclusive MAPs there is an epidemic of touch starvation. The media reports on touch starvation's negative affects on mental health and well-being, sometimes they report on this problem when it comes to children, but rarely when it comes to adults. Adult touch-starvation and the privation of inter-generational enjoyment from adults is not something that is even viewed as a problem for most of society, adults are supposed to have settled down with a partner and sexuality is falsely viewed as the normative genital penetrative sexuality which appears in mainstream porn. Adults who enjoy taking care of children are not allowed to touch them or be touched by them, when this is the obvious solution to the issue here as well as allowing children to sexually experiment with other children. Human sexuality is not entirely genital or penetrative in the way society's normative approach portrays sexuality in pornography, as always between consenting adults and selecting from a small catalog of acts. For humans, groping, smell, touch, bodily contact and other shared pleasures have always been just as important for human sexual activity, which always involved a social dimension of bonding and care which is older than the modern conception of consensual intercourse. It's an open secret that the link between a mother and a child's body during breastfeeding, care and nourishing behaviors in humans are erotic and sensual experiences for both parties, it is also an open secret that little girls regularly develop crushes for their older male teachers and their fathers but today is this rarely acknowledged, sometimes this is explored by both parties but modern society is ruled by fear. Uncles and avuncular figures throughout history have always had social contacts with boys which sometimes took on an erotic and sensual side. Older and younger guys who bond globally have passionate sexual contacts and female figures having contacts with younger girls and boys used to be practically tolerated. Despite all this, the media will talk about "the touch starvation epidemic" and not probe any further into the demographics of which people are actually being deprived of touch and sensuality with others, that is, children and older adults, and the logical solution of inter-generational relationships being decriminalized or allowed in some cases.