Give a hug, feel the love. It might not be extra-special-friendship love, or I-wanna-do-you love, but it's regardless, love. Of the simple and pure kind, that you can express to all of mankind.

I have in occasion hugged a friend or two (and be hugged back), and it feels pretty nice. I know it is not quite as a powerful experience as a full-blown romantic hug, so what? Would you discard the small things in life that make you smile just because they won't make you fall off in laugher or shed tears of joy?

Perhaps if I were to be giving and receiving hugs in a daily basis I would think a little less of it. But you know what? I get the impression most people are just not receiving enough hugs on their lives. And that is why the free-hugs movement exists. It might remind you of things that you may have all but forgotten.

In fact, a lot of men get turned on by that ¬¬ We have a sort of cultural expectation which dictates that women should be bi-curious on the very least, as if experimenting were the most normal of things. I don't mind that, even if many men only allow that only as part of the their sexual fantasies in wanting a threesome with two sexy ladies.

Being a lesbian is where you can (and often do) see the side of culture that is against it. For guys being bisexual or gay is even harsher and more difficult. I do wish for a world where people are allowed to be what they are, allowed to explore what they might be, and have no repercussions for it.

But as long as we have immature kids that go "ew, teh gay! My eyes cannot unsee it!" I imagine we still have a long way to go. Though, to cut-back on the cultural issue of it, just know that you are in a safe environment to explore yourself, Emmy.