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===Skin hunger===
{{Main|Touch starvation}}

Skin hunger, also known as touch starvation or touch deprivation, is a [[Physiology|physiological]] need in living beings to touch and be touched by other living beings. Discussion around skin hunger became more pronounced following the [[COVID-19 lockdowns]] due to the social and physical isolation that resulted from them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Iovine |first=Anna |date=2020-05-26 |title=The real impact of not having been touched in months |url=https://mashable.com/article/not-being-touched-social-distance |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Mashable |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ryan |first=Charlotte |date=2021-08-09 |title="Without touch we deteriorate quickly": What is touch starvation? |url=https://www.rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2021/0809/1239837-without-touch-we-deteriorate-quickly-what-is-Touch starvation/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |work=Raidió Teilifís Éireann}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bermudez-Hyun |first=Claudia |date=2022-07-05 |title=Physical touch: Why it matters and how starved are we? |url=https://philstarlife.com/self/987494-physical-touch-health?page=5 |access-date=2025-03-18 |work=PhilStar Life}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Park |first=William |date=2020-07-07 |title=Why human touch is so hard to replace |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200706-why-human-touch-is-so-hard-to-replace |access-date=2025-03-18 |work=BBC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kale |first=Sirin |date=2020-05-05 |title=The Neuroscience of Why You Could Really Use a Hug Right Now |url=https://www.wired.com/story/the-neuroscience-of-why-you-could-really-use-a-hug-right-now/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |magazine=WIRED UK}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hasan |first=Maham |date=2020-10-06 |title=What All That Touch Deprivation Is Doing to Us |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/style/touch-deprivation-coronavirus.html |access-date=2025-03-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tomeka |first=Lucy |date=2023-07-26 |title=Touch starvation: Why your skin is your best friend |url=https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/health-/Touch starvation-why-your-skin-is-your-best-friend-4306318 |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=The Citizen |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Degges-White |first=Suzanne |date=2020-11-20 |title=Skin Hunger, Touch Starvation, and Hug Deprivation |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifetime-connections/202011/skin-hunger-Touch starvation-and-hug-deprivation |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Psychology Today |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sirin |first=Kale |date=2016-11-08 |title=The Life of the Skin-Hungry: Can You Go Crazy from a Lack Of Touch? |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-life-of-the-skin-hungry-can-you-go-crazy-from-a-lack-of-touch/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=VICE |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=McGrath |first1=Jacqueline M. |last2=Thillet |first2=Maria |last3=Van Cleave |first3=Lindsay |date=2007-03-01 |title=Parent Delivered Infant Massage: Are We Truly Ready for Implementation? |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1527336906001632 |journal=Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews |series=Family Issues |volume=7 |issue=1 |pages=39–46 |doi=10.1053/j.nainr.2006.12.012 |issn=1527-3369|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last1=Davis |first1=Isaac |title=Touch Deprivation and Counselling as Healing Touch |date=2017 |work=Touch in the Helping Professions |pages=13–32 |editor-last=Rovers |editor-first=Martin |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5vdcvd.5 |access-date=2025-03-19 |series=Research, Practice and Ethics |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |doi=10.2307/j.ctv5vdcvd.5 |last2=Rovers |first2=Martin |last3=Petrella |first3=Cassandra |jstor=j.ctv5vdcvd.5 |editor2-last=Malette |editor2-first=Judith |editor3-last=Guirguis-Younger |editor3-first=Manal|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Berendsen |first=Patricia |title=The Intervention of Touch in Psychotherapy and Trauma Treatment |date=2017 |work=Touch in the Helping Professions |pages=85–106 |editor-last=Rovers |editor-first=Martin |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5vdcvd.9 |access-date=2025-03-19 |series=Research, Practice and Ethics |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |jstor=j.ctv5vdcvd.9 |editor2-last=Malette |editor2-first=Judith |editor3-last=Guirguis-Younger |editor3-first=Manal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gupta |first1=Madhulika A. |last2=Gupta |first2=Aditya K. |last3=Schork |first3=Nicholas J. |last4=Watteel |first4=Gena N. |title=Perceived touch deprivation and body image: some observations among eating disordered and non-clinical subjects |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/002239999400146V |journal=Journal of Psychosomatic Research |date=1995 |language=en |volume=39 |issue=4 |pages=459–464 |doi=10.1016/0022-3999(94)00146-V|pmid=7562675 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{Excessive citations inline|date=April 2025}}