When Delhi-based Meghna Sinha* went out on a date with a social media friend earlier this month - their third meeting - it wasn’t the steamy first kiss she found herself replaying in her mind the next day. It was the memory of their fingers intertwined that she couldn’t stop thinking about.
“For some reason, it wasn’t the kiss but the fact that we held hands that sparked a feeling of emotional closeness in my mind,” she tells India Today.
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Sinha is not alone. It’s a shared outlook among the younger generation today that sex often feels casual, whereas smaller acts of intimacy like holding hands feel far more intense and meaningful.
This is in vivid contrast to how people from previous generations grew up, even Millennials. For them, holding hands was the first base. It took time (plus a kind of holding-hands foreplay) to even reach that stage - brushing past each other’s little finger while walking and pretending it was acciden
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