why does human feels warm to touch?

Question

People generally have the same temperature, so the touch should feel neutral, not cooler, not warmer. Why does it feel warmer?

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Answer 1

Your body isn’t trying to tell whether something is the same temperature as you, or even if heat is flowing out of your body or into it, it’s trying to tell whether the heat flow out of your body is too fast or too slow. Another human, at your bodies skin temperature, is way to hot to dump heat into easily so they feel warm.