thinking abt physically affectionate men... casual touching before things are even romantic... they hug you when they say hello and then again when you say goodbye.... when they laugh rly hard they lean over so their weight is pressing into your shoulder.... they wrap an arm around your waist when you're in a crowded place to keep you close.... they can tell your hands are cold and take them in their own and rub them together to warm them up..... hm.....
touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know
A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right). Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE