Description
Physical contact - how we touch each other, embrace, caress and kiss - this is the subject of Intimate Behaviour. In discussing every form of bodily contact - from handshaking to coition - Desmond Morris shows how in a more crowded and impersonal world instinctive human intimacies suffer severe restraint. Our natural behaviour is replaced by a series of substitute gestures smoking, dancing, caressing pets - and even by the specialized intimacies offered by the services of such people as the doctor, the barber, the masseur.
