THE POSITIVE RESEARCH OF BODY COMMUNICATIONS

“触摸身体”是家庭交流的重要元素。本研究的目的是通过分析身体交流所产生的触摸动作和情感的实际情况和意义，来展现现代日本人际关系的一个侧面。为了证明这个目的，我做了案例研究（访谈研究）和问卷研究（学生试点研究和学生与普通人的研究）。主要结果如下：家庭环境中身体交流的条件。与美国相比，在家庭中，即使是夫妻之间也很少有身体交流。超过50%的人回答说他们从来没有手挽着手走路。女性之间比男性之间有更多的身体交流。研究结果支持了爱情女性化的假设。在护理情境中触摸身体的性别问题在护理情境中，男性和女性更倾向于女性的护理而不是男性的护理。尤其是女人讨厌男人触摸她的身体，即使是在照顾的情况下。这种观点支持了这样一种情况，即无论是在家庭还是在非家庭情况下，大多数照顾者都是女性。身体交流的一般情感。女性通常对公共场合的性交流（亲吻或拥抱）感到不安。人们可以批准女性穿耳洞和染发，但不能批准男性。

'Touching the body' is the important element of communications that occur in the family situations. The aim of this research is to show one side of human relationship of modern Japan by analising the actual conditions and meanings of touching action and emotions that are arizen by body communications.To porve the aim, I did the case sutudy (interview research) and questionair reseach (pilot research of sutdents and research of students and ordinary people).The main results are below.1.) Conditions of body communication in faimly situations.In comparing to U.S.A., there few body communication in family even between husband and wife. Over 50% spauses answered they never walked arm in arm. There are more body communications between female people than between male people. The result support the hypothesis of the feminization of love.2.) Gender problem of touching the body in the care situationIn the care situation, men and women prefer female's care to male's care. Especialy women hate male touch her body even in the care situation. This sentiments support the condition that most of carers are female in either family or non-family situations.3.) General sentiment of body communications.Women generally feel bad about sexual communication (kiss or hug) in public.People can approve female's piercing ears and hair dying, but cannot approve male's.