“Cuddles” is not your local lady of p . . . leisure. She, or he, is you, and me.

Skin to skin contact is important for every human being. A great deal of research has indicated that infants who lack enough physical touch may never achieve full emotional development. In 2010 Katherine Harmon reported in The Scientific American, “. . . many stories of delayed development and troublesome behavior, such as in the seven-year-old Russian orphan who was returned by his adoptive family in the U.S....