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By: Joshua Glenn
June 24, 2014

Call this skin-protection category code: Mother Touch.

Definition: Mother Touch coding posits skin as a medium of communication between a mother and her child or children.

Notes on this code: Skin protection not about health, in this coding. A mother’s love is communicated via the skin, so the purpose of skin protection is to keep the lines of mother-child communication open.

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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Boston.

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