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In the same way that some families are more touch-friendly than others, some national cultures are more touch or physically orientated than others. In one study of the number of physical interactions that occurred during one hour in cafes, the highest number of recorded incidents occurred in Puerto Rico with a staggering 180 in one hour. This contrasted with a despondent zero in London! It is difficult to isolate the separate influence of family and cultural background, but they must combine to have an impact on how we relate physically to other people.

Touch is an instinctive, natural language that we all speak and understand. It is from this instinctive language of rubbing, holding and comforting that more structured forms of touch have evolved to eventually develop into the different forms of massage that exist in every culture throughout the world. English people are traditionally very reserved and puritanical when it comes to being touched. One of the wonderful things about massage is that it is a formalized touch; it gives you license to touch someone within established and defined boundaries.