Last weekend one hands Angie's friends was talking about a guy she had started seeing. They were taking it slow—spacing out their dates, waiting to have sex, holding hands… "Holding hands?!? Are you insane?!?

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Here's why:. I don't know what I love more: this poor kid's asymmetrical hipster haircut or his horrible tie. Drunken make-out sessions aside, I am very reserved when it comes to PDA. I've only held click to see more with two girls in my life—my high school girlfriend and my long-term girlfriend.

It's such an intimate and public act, at least for me. This got me in trouble a while back, when a girl I'd been dating for a month or so took my hand while we were walking down the street.

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I quickly put my hand in my pocket—she claimed I reacted like she had one of those electric palm buzzers—and a pretty tense discussion ensued. It's dating that I wasn't into her, but I definitely wasn't ready to hold hands. I realize this is going to sound really messed up, holding for me holding hands can be more intimate than sex. They're both physical acts, but sometimes sex is purely physical, with no emotional attachment.

This is rarely the case with holding hands, which serves as a public declaration of your bond. Topics holding hands intimacy sex. By Kathleen Walsh. By Meghan Rose. By Meg Walters.

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