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hug should be an extra article in many cultures thi8s is a big deal.--yidi 14:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Clarification 2 NPOV 3 Origins of the hug 4 Hugs on holidays? 5 Shepherd Jr. High Controversy 6 Cleanup

[edit] Clarification

For every two worthwhile and legitimate additions I make to this article, I will add one thing is that totally retarded. Do not attempt to discern the differences. Simply revert to the awful and redundant version of this article that presently exists. --71.222.22.221 11:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

magical properties??? citation please. Kit O'Connell (Todfox: user / talk / contribs) 06:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[[1]] .V. _[Talk|Email] 18:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origins of the hug

Unless there's a good reason to think that the origins of the hug can be traced to a specific time and place, maybe the article should just be mute on the subject. --24.147.86.187 19:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hugs on holidays?

"Many people hug on holidays, such as Mother's Day, or Christmas."

Seems a bit silly to put this in. I'm not saying it's untrue, but people hug for tons of reasons. Graduations, after not seeing each other for a while, etc. I don't know why we're calling out holidays. Does this warrant a list of "typical reasons to hug?"

Drewmutty (talk) 08:48, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, I went ahead and removed it. Maybe someone wants to resurrect this and other original research in a page called list of occasions upon which people might hug. maxsch (talk) 23:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Shepherd Jr. High Controversy

I fixed up Shepherd Jr. High's controversy part, by source and by experience as a current student at Shepherd Jr. High (March 5th, 2008) as well as reading the newspaper article on the front page that explained the situation. Thecutnut (talk) 09:43, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

There was a lot of nonsense on this page. I moved Groping and Tree hugging to the see also section. The CDC does not single out hugging as mode of transmitting SARS, rather SARS (like many contagious diseases) can be transmitted by close contact. Hugging is clearly close contact, but the specificity of the line about SARS is misleading, so I took it out too. The prehistoric hug is cute but not encyclopedic: removed. The bit about hugging and the female brain is controversial and I'm removing it for lack of independent scientific support, some of Louann Brizendine's other numbers in the book that this supposedly comes from are not from her own research and turn out to be false (see, for example, the claim that women use more words than men: it's not true!). I'm not sure what to do about the school controversy, some of the links in it were dead and it is really not about hugs or hugging per se, it is more about American hysteria about child sexuality and exploitation. It seems like it really belongs elsewhere...maybe in its own page, or nowhere... maxsch (talk) 19:43, 9 March 2008 (UTC)