I JUST NEEDED TO BE HELD

Even if children are not lured into a cult to make up for years of touch deprivation, they may be drawn into immoral relationships.

Many promiscuous men and women, people who work as prostitutes, and women who repeatedly have unwanted pregnancies have told researchers their sexual activity is merely a way to satisfy yearnings to be touched and held.

Psychiatrist Dr. Marc Hollender interviewed dozens of women who have had three or more unwanted pregnancies. Overwhelmingly, these women said they were "consciously aware that sexual activity was a price to pay to be cuddled and held." For them, touching before intercourse was more pleasurable than intercourse itself, "which was merely something to be tolerated."

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