Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Debra DeAngelo, author of The Elements of Horse Spirit, Pagan Curious, and the new Sacred Massage. Are you starving? Not for food—for touch. We need sustenance (food) to survive physically, but we also need kinesthetic sustenance—loving physical contact—to survive psychologically. Without it, we yearn for "something" to satisfy that perpetual, aching emptiness, and we try various methods. A vodka martini. Another pair of shoes. A piece of cake; maybe the whole thing. These things may satisfy for the moment, but before long, we're awash again in that familiar gnawing need for "something." It's touch. Touch has been vilified in