"I know the names of the different positive endorphins released from skin to skin touch or a hug or a kiss. The science, in my world at least, is very firm on this."

But hey, he lacks the papers here. Though he finds himself sad.

"There... are ways I would react to what you just said but I promised myself not to psychoanalyze friends. So I'll just shut up on touch. And promise not to touch you."