The Art of Holding Hands Jenny Ellis wrote to Home Truths asking us to investigate the practicalities of hand-holding. Holding hand is an inocent pastime you'd have thought, but Frank's questions provoked some extreme responses. I don't feel comfortable with it. I wouldn't like to be seen by people I know. I feel an idiot holding hands.
Age is also a factor - with early adolescence a watershed.
Where hand-holding was useful for playground games, being lead across roads, or forming monstrously long crocodiles, as the teenage spots appear, it takes on a new, romantic, meaning. But with my very first boyfriend, I couldn't wait to be seen in public holding hands with him. A little role play might shed more light. It's very courtly and protective manner.