Touching Tenderness

"Love is a many splendored thing. "

Or, according to Rabbi David Montag (obm), one study showed that to be psychologically healthy, one needs a minimum of 12 hugs per day.

I imagine that, short of mothers of large broods of children and pre-school teachers, no one gets that many hugs.

We're lucky if we get even ONE!

So, then, what is wrong with the picture of "shomer negia" in Judaism, and prohibitions from other religions as to touching the opposite sex. The famous Dr. Oz from the Oprah Show says we need to have sex 200 times per year. That's about 4 times per week. How many of us are that lucky?

And what's with covering every bit of women's skin? We need the sun! We must have melatonin and vitamin D which we receive from the sun

I am confused.

What would MAIMONIDES, the doctor from Cordoba say?

Please, enlighten me?