WHY HUG?

Hugging, especially someone who had been seen for a long time, is a sign of deeper love. It is highly encouraged, even religiously speaking. But apparently, not with the opposite gender.

Giving its peculiarity, hugging is supposed to be a male-to-male, female-to-female, husband-to-wife, brother-to-sister, elderly-to-minor phenomenon. Religion apart, that is common sense.

A grown-up lady with various qualities of puberty in her physique hitting her chest against that of a gender counterpart in whose body chemistry, too, are characteristics of a grown-up man, all in the name of hugging, defies logic.

Hugging is hardly done without having a touch on highly sensitive areas of the huggers' bodies. Isn't it abnormal for a man to have a feel of the state of a woman's sensitive organ at the top - an organ that is supposed to be exclusive of her husband? Isn't it bad enough that the most sensitive parts of the huggers' bodies, even though there is a cloth-barricade, are having a free contact with each other?

It is more perturbing that, in the name of hugging, some people peck, or even kiss each other, in the open, for that matter.  They say it is civilisation. What then is exclusively reserved for the partner? Nothing! Advise them to do away with the ignoble mess, they will tell you that you have a dirty mind.

This is what we see in movies - local and international. They keep portraying hugging between genders as the only way to go in welcoming visitors and to show that a friend is loved.

Unfortunately, the young ones, teenagers for that matter, have followed suit. It baffles the more that clerics equally wallow in this disorder. This is no civilisation, nor is it a part of sociability. It is just a borrowed abnormal style of the west that we acquiescently embraced. It wasn't Nigerian, neither was it African.

If you must hug, do so with your wife/husband and a fellow gender, not with another man/woman's wife/husband.

Author: Sanni Kay Yusuf