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How do different cultures view physical contact in everyday life? Mike Williams explores our attitudes to personal contact, good and bad.

Why do we touch each other? And how do different cultures view physical contact in everyday life? Mike Williams explores our least-studied sense and meets a woman who gets her fill of human contact by cuddling people she has just met.

(Image: A mother and daughter hold hands. Credit: Getty Images)

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