I don't know if you are a psychology student, but I am and this is pretty accurate. I think the same, you did a really good job
THIS IS WHY I LOVE PSYCHOLOGY
Interesting theory
I am an aspiring student. I actually always thought of medicine. Then had a mental breakdown because life happened and my consciense shifted after self theraphy etc. and i realised how all my life everyone told me stuff like "you psychologist" and very seriously at that...so I was like...may be this is my calling I should study it and see why I keep hearing this ╮(￣▽￣)╭
he said he was never taught nor never desired socialisation and contact or relationships. Until he saw that porn video of someone dominant touching and pleasuring someone more submissive. So now don`t get me wrong, this is not Freud based, just about how childhood forms the basis for how we kinda filter the world after age of 7.
So, this kid was given basic fulfillmen of primary needs, or else he probably would not have survived. (lotsa study on how babies die when only given food but no touch, no contact, cause we are social beings) And he never looked starved or sickly in the flashbacks. Especially present.
So what I think happened is, he became kinda a person with symptoms of a high functioning sociopath. But only because he was never introduced to his other potentials and the proper assimilation of his needs.
Like virgins can dream of sex and find out orgasms are nice, but they cannot be addicted to the feeling people get from sex or the act or what, because they never had sex. For example.
Some may even believe they don`t want sex (asexual). SOme people who had bad sex so far might think so as well. Until they experience good sex. We always avoid, fear or ignore what we don`t know or have bad experience with.
This kid is simple. So he survived well, thus didn`t see the need to look into what all this love, relationship and intimacy stuff was about. But he knew he was lacking something, but he was alive and kicking, so he didn`t see the need to pursue what he was missing really. Until he kinda came accross that gay porns that aroused him.
He liked the big, beautiful and healthy looking handsome hands. Hands tell us humans a lot about the person infront of us ya know. Evolutionary stuff here.
So this guy is a human that has skin hunger. Simple yup. He was never really touched, like platonic love from family or friends or a touch from a person you love romantically. He is awkward thus with this. He is self conscious and sensitive. Obviously, as he feels the need to wear a blindfold and points out stuff like "getting used to your face" and "developing feelings".
He is just a neglected individual, that knows something is missing, but not what because he lacks experience though he his body does know what he needs. And there is one happy enzyme that can usually come from skin contact and that is "oxytocin", so body be like DUDE YO NEED HANDS TO TOUCH YOU ASAP. ALARM! DEPRESSION! ALARM!