Touch geographies are the sensuous geographies arising out of the tactile receptivity of the body, specifically the skin, and are closely linked to the ability of the body to move through the environment and pick up and manipulate objects. Touch can be both passive and active, a juxtaposition of body and world and a careful exploration of the size, shape, weight, texture, and temperature of features in the environment. Touch is above all the most intimate sense, limited by the reach of the body, and it is the most reciprocal of the senses, for to touch is always to be touched . . . Many different emotions can be associated with touch -- from caring and love to disgust and hate. It is therefore a highly significant dimension of the human experience, both in person-person and person-environment relationships. We might lose any of one or more of the other senses -- sight, hearing, smell, for instance -- but to lose an ability to feel, that is, touch, is to lose all sense of being in a world, and fundamentally of being at all.