No friendly gesture should come at the cost of personal safety. If your proffered hand is batted away, step back quickly and ...

Some men seem to want to hug me because of my large chest, and it seems more like sexual assault than a friendly gesture.

Regardless of your interpretation of the probably needed a hug trend, one thing is true. People are taking notice and taking ...

"I'm a big hugger in real life, and that's how they wrote that skit, which I thought was cool because I do overly hug people sometimes," the 39-year-old musician tells PEOPLE. Noam Galai/Getty ...

Some friends likely hug all the time, and others never do. There's nothing wrong with either scenario. "It’s respecting whether someone wants hugs or not without trying to force things on them ...

The government’s latest lockdown easing announcement on 17 May says we’re finally allowed to hug our loved ones again. But why do we crave human contact so much, and how can hugging benefit ...