Coach hugs his emotional player.

Vernon Davis, receiver for the San Francisco 49ers, (please keep reading, this is relevant) made the game winning catch to defeat the New Orleans Saints. Davis seemed quite emotional running off the field, perhaps even crying, and his coach grabbed him in tight hug. They clung to each other for some time, while the coach whispered in Davis' ear. It was a touching scene.

Human contact is essential to healthy development. There is a need in healthy people, of all ages, for touch and emotional support. In "Who Speaks For Earth", Cosmos, Carl Sagan writes, "Mammals characteristically nuzzle, fondle, hug, caress, pet, groom and love their young.... // The neuropsychologist James W. Prescott has performed a startling cross cultural statistical analysis of 400 preindustrial societies and found that cultures that lavish physical affection on infants tend to be disinclined to violence. Even societies without notable fondling of infants develop nonviolent adults, providing sexual activity in adolescents is not repressed. // Prescott writes, 'The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate toward its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of that relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.' Infants hunger for physical affection, adolescents are strongly driven to sexual activity."

I strongly believe that one of the great evils perpetuated upon Amerikan society by the antis and their ilk is the depriving of physical affection to young people, and the cruel destruction of natural sexual activity in adolescents. This society is creating a culture where our reptilian natures supplant our mammalian natures, and this can only lead to more violence and the creation of a destructive society...far worse than the one we already have.