The Sense of Touch

The sense of touch or mechanic reception is that which allows organisms to perceive qualities of objects and media such as pressure, temperature, roughness or smoothness, hardness, etc. In the human being it is considered one of the five basic senses.   

The sense of touch is found mainly in the skin, an organ in which there are different kinds of nervous receptors which are responsible for transforming the various types of external stimuli to information likely to be interpreted by the brain.

Touch is a sense that with the lack of use of it has been devalued, along with smell and taste, resulting in a present where technological advances require more rigorously the senses of sight and hearing. And like everything that is not used, it will atrophy and we risk losing it, we may be in danger of becoming increasingly insensitive. The media is winning the battle to the other stimuli of life, reality which dictates that gradually some of our senses will start atrophying.

On the other hand, people are becoming more individualistic, avoiding the intimate, sincere and deep contact with others, preferring shallow relationships without compromise and without affection. Experimental investigations show that the act of touching each other is more valuable than a thousand words, and just a slight touch, from the emotional point of view, can be expressed without words and no doubts, well-defined emotions