Original Reddit post

I’ve seen a lot of posts about women saying they don’t like it when ‘their partner touches them without consent’. And it will be like the guy touching her body randomly. Personally, it takes me a long time to open up to someone, so I don’t really like when a guy touches me at all early on. But once I’m comfortable and in a relationship, I don’t really mind any kind of touching at any point? Like I feel like physical touch is always welcome to me especially in a playful way, unless I’m actively angry or upset for some reason, or if the guy assumed we would have s*x every time we touched, that would be weird. I also imagine I would feel pretty awkward if the guy was like ‘ask my consent before touching me’ if we were in an established and close relationship already. I think it’s fair for someone to be like that, but I would feel quite dejected I think. Like obviously with the exception that they’re in a bad mood or something was wrong, and they wanted space or something. But in an every day sense, it feels normal and nice to me to touch the person randomly and playfully often. I was wondering, what do guys feel about boundaries related to touch (especially in playfulness) in their relationships? submitted by /u/strawberrilemons

Originally posted by u/strawberrilemons on r/AskMen