What a child is regularly held affectionately by its parents, two distinct brain areas are activated simultaneously -- one for temperature and one for affection.
She may have been the first white actress allowed to hold hands affectionately with a black man on screen, and her staircase dance with Mr. Robinson in "The Little Colonel," the first of four movies they made together, retains its magic almost 80 years later.
One motif is a circle that forms and reforms, the dancers holding hands affectionately for a few moments before diving back into the fray.
"'Why can't we be friends now?' said the other, holding him affectionately.
Oumou often talked to the facilitators after the workshop sessions, holding them affectionately by the arm.
"Ah, catuaba," Badaró declared, affectionately holding up a piece of wood.
Mr. Mbeki stirred outrage and ridicule in South Africa when he said last Saturday, just before an emergency meeting of regional leaders on Zimbabwe, that there was no crisis there — a remark he offered while he affectionately held hands with the 84-year-old Mr. Mugabe in Harare.
When two men are affectionately holding hands, who is getting hurt?
When someone affectionately holds us, our bodies literally release chemicals that calm us, cause us to feel loved and actually heal us.
Affectionately holding Shams ad-Din's hand, the emperor stepped out of the mosque only to be confronted by a priest holding the gospels and others attempting to force entry into the mosque.
Media campaigns that encourage men to acknowledge women's rights can have immense ripple effects -- recently a commercial in India where a woman was shown getting married for the second time, with her new groom affectionately holding her daughter, was a powerful thought-provoker in a culture where divorce and remarriage for women is deeply taboo.
