I remember oxytocin and hugging were the first things i googled on my new phone when i restarted with my current t. I wanted hugs from him and i needed the research to back me up.

It was serendipitous that at my first meeting with him, i saw him hug goodbye his previous client, a seven year old boy there with his mother. I walked in and said, "you dont discriminate on the basis of age or sex, right? I want a hug too!" The first couple of years at least i still felt weird about the hugs; now not so much.