Celebrities Who Touch Other People

The title is a lot less perverted than you're thinking. I caught an episode of "The Late Show With Jay Leno" the other day - okay, it was an old episode featuring Ryan Reynolds, because I'm going through a very hard-core Ryan Reynolds obsession phase right now - and I noticed something odd. And by odd, I mean something that happens regularly, but I never really gave it much thought until now.

So Jay Leno comes out onto the stage, doing his little Jay Leno thing, and a hoard of people come up to him instantaneously, reaching for him, and pushing each other out of the way to get to him. Some of them, particularly the older men reach out an actual hand to shake hands with him (something I am told is normal in human culture) - that's fine. But most of them simply reach out a hand to touch him - and Leno complies, reaching out a couple of fingers just to touch these people.

If I were to ask what it was about celebrities that make us want to just touch them, that would be foolish and stupid, and hypocritical. Of course I would like to touch celebrities!

By the way, the more I write "touch" and "celebrities" in the same sentence, the more I feel like a sex offender.

You see what I mean?

It sounds weird, but it's so accepted.

They touch babies too!

Oh, and before I forget...