Article: Lost touch: how a year without hugs affects our mental health
It it telling that her examples are all about women because if you gender reverse the article it sound a lot like the Incel debate we had in 2019. Of course the Incels where shamed for pointing out that human touch is a necessity for mental health.
Now women had a year of what many men experience often enough for decades and suddenly something needs to be done.
Touch, hugs, etc. indeed be a need but that doesn't make it a right. Unless you want to mandate for state run hugging brothels.
For more details watch the Honey Badger Radio response video
Is Touch a Human Right? | Men's Mental Health 18