Unwanted touch

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 7:32 p.m.

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Claudia Hammond explores unwanted touch and who we do and don\\u2019t mind touching us \\u2013 and where. She draws on insights from the largest study that\\u2019s ever been conducted on the topic of touch \\u2013 The Touch Test - commissioned by Wellcome Collection. Almost forty thousand people from all over the world chose to take part. Claudia discusses where we draw the boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable touch, at work or in the street, with Dr Amy Kavanagh, a visually impaired activist and campaigner, Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and the author of \\u201cRape - a History\\u201d, and Dr Natalie Bowling, a psychologist at the University of Greenwich who co-created the Touch Test and has been crunching the numbers. After #meToo and Covid, could unwanted touch even become a thing of the past?

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