Out of Touch : How to Survive an Intimacy Famine Out of Touch : How to Survive an Intimacy Famine

Out of Touch : How to Survive an Intimacy Famine

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Publisher Description

Millions of people around the world are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Through the wonders of modern technology, we are connecting with more people more often than ever before, but are these connections what we long for? Pandemic isolation has made us even more alone.
In Out of Touch, Professor of Psychology Michelle Drouin investigates what she calls our intimacy famine, exploring love, belongingness, and fulfillment and considering why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our
interactions are through social media, we are taking tiny hits of dopamine rather than the huge shots of oxytocin that an intimate in-person relationship would provide.
Drouin explains that intimacy is not just sex—although of course sex is an important part of intimacy. But how important? Drouin reports on surveys that millennials (perhaps distracted by constant Tinder-swiping) have less sex than previous generations. She discusses pandemic puppies, professional cuddlers, the
importance of touch, “desire discrepancy” in marriage, and the value of friendships. Online dating, she suggests, might give users too many options, and the internet facilitates “infidelity-related behaviors.” Some technological advances will help us develop and maintain intimate relationships—our phones, for
example, can be bridges to emotional support. Some, on the other hand, might leave us out of touch. Drouin explores both of these possibilities.

GENRE
Non-Fiction
NARRATOR
MB
Mia Barron
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:08
hr min
RELEASED
2022
12 April
PUBLISHER
Recorded Books, Inc.
SIZE
356.2
MB
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