Now, how can nurturing human touch help people navigate singlehood and dating better? What sort of insight can you provide for us, for the single people out there when it comes to dating and touch?

Well, I think we don't really think about touch as a... basic human need as something that's like built into our biology.

I mean, you actually have cells in your skin that register emotion, you know, that register touch.

We start, we start our lives in our mother's arms.

We started our species in caves, sleeping in big piles for warmth and safety.

So this is, you know, it's kind of baked into our biology.

It's actually the, the hormone that's produced when you touch oxytocin is, is, in all mammals, you know, you see animals that are all curled up together with each other.

Right.