Sex/uality Artifacts

Hello, my name is Emily Atkinson and I did my presentation on Thursday over the article titled “Intimate relationships”. There was a main section in the article that talked solely on the attachment theory. The attachment theory states that there is an ability for an individual to form an emotional and physical “attachment” to another person which gives a sense of stability and security necessary to take risks, branch out, and grow and develop as a personality. Bowlby, who is the main psychologist in this article talks about how a child’s sense of attachment depends on the relationship they make with their care taker, which is typically a mother or a father. He also goes on to say that this experience is very natural for the child and that attachment doesn’t always have to be sexual. Physical touch is a child’s first tangible connection to a mother or father. In this video, children are blindfolded and walk down six mothers standing in a line. The children then touch the faces and hair of the mothers to figure out which one of them is their mom. This displays the natural experience that the attachment theory has in all of our lives, especially in children. This is a phenomenon that  takes place without us even knowing. Being about to pick out your mother in a group of other women in a special task that we can accomplish based on our sense of touch. This video was actually very eye opening for me in the sense that I did not realize such a thing could be so easy. I had never seen anything like this before but after watching it, now that I think about it, I could probably find my mom in a group of people too if I were blind folded. I believe I could do this because I had such an attachment to my mother growing up.