# Is touching co-workers OK?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-touching-co-workers-ok/833424 "2019-05-03T15:42:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-touching-co-workers-ok/833424/176 "2019-05-04T17:26:57Z")

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> [@Ulfreida](#):
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> Why are so few posters noticing that MEN touching WOMEN is the salient part of the discussion? Not whether different cultures find different levels of touching appropriate. Not whether certain individuals are hypersensitive to touch. Men don’t touch each other with the same intent that they touch women. Women don’t react to women touching them the way they react to men touching them.
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> Because a man touching a woman, signaling a controlling message, is different than _any other kind of touching_. Sorry, it just is. …

Because it’s not. It’s about touching co-workers. Not men touching women.

And it’s really not. Men & women can actually have normal non-sexual encounters, believe it or not.

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