Years ago I read an article that coined a word: hypersensuality. Now I can’t find that article anywhere. An academic anthropological piece about a culture in – the Andamans? the Aleutians? the Appalachians? where men held each other and slept curled against each other night to night. Sex happened sometimes, or didn’t—it didn’t matter much. Tenderness was for these men a foundation of sanity and well-being. The missionaries came along, and outlawed touch, and the men were fractured into virtue. Crime, alcoholism and violence resulted more or less immediately.
I can’t find this article anywhere. If you find it, could you send it along? Perhaps we might yet scrape together enough clues to learn the practice.
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