New piece: Rethinking platonic touch (NYT)

Updated May 28, 2021. Three years ago today, I landed in Europe for the start of what proved a 17-month trip to research singleness. I’m grateful for the chance to tell New York Times readers more about how that trip changed my views of touch: Americans, It’s Time to Get Comfortable With Platonic Touch. Art by Celina Pereira.

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I discuss the article and my singleness research more generally in this interview with Jonathan Sanborn, host of the Faith Talk 1360 show Counter Culture: We Need to Talk About Singleness and Human Touch (Spotify).