There are different types of touch communication. Touch can be primitive and transmit affection or aggression between family and close relationships. It can also be ritualistic greetings and departures that people are accustomed to. Another type is helpful touch like checking someone's forehead for a fever. Mothers touch children more than fathers and opposite-sex friends touch more than same-sex friends. There are also different distances between people divided into close and far phases, with intimate, personal, social, and public distances each defining space. Even gifts can communicate messages without being directly spoken.

1. Eliezer Almanzar ESL 4

3. Touch is the most Primitive form of communication.

5. – This is the type of touch in a family or close relationship.

6. It is the touch that is transmitted when others want to play either affectionately or aggressively.

7. This is the touch to control someone. Sitingstill.net

8. – This next type of touching focuses on greetings and departures. It is Ritualistic touching that we are used to.

9. The last type of touch is centered in helping others. Checking their forehead for a fever or taking them out of a car after an accident. Corbis.com

11. It has been proven that mothers touch their children more than a father does . Opposite-Sex friends touch more than same-sex friends. Superstock.com

15. Proxemics - Study of how people manage space between each other.

16. There are 4 different distances divided into Close and Far phases, a total of 8 .

17. imeem.com Close Far Intimate Distance Used for lovemaking, wrestling and protection. Is so close that is not proper in public.

18. freshworship.org freshworship.org Close Far Personal Distance Each of us carries a bubble defining our personal space. You can’t go further from the point that you can smell me.

19. imageenvision.com Close Far Social Distance We can conduct impersonal business . Eye contact IS ESSENTIAL.

20. worth1000.com Close Far Public Distance INDIVIDUAL IS PROTECTED BY SPACE, AND CAN ACT IF SOMETHING HAPPENs. DISTANCE USED BY ACTORS AND SINGERS TO PERFORM.

22. IF YOU PREFER A JAGUAR THAN A BEETLE YOU Communicate THIS to OTHERS.

23. Pygmalion Gifts - The gift that seems to be designed to change the person into what the donor wants the person to become.

24. A HUSBAND WHO BUYS HIS WIFE SEXY LINGERIE MIGHT BE ASKING HER TO BE SEXY. A MOTHER WHO BUYS HER SON BOOKS MIGHT WANT HIM TO BECOME A SCHOLAR.

25. The desire is never spoken and at end never resolved. This suggests that even in gifts there are messages that we communicate without talking.