rabbiofberlin, do you think it was really necessary for Shlomo to hug all those women and girls? You think he couldn’t be mekarev them without touching them? There are plenty of people who are very successful when it comes to kiruv, and they don’t need to do those things. Ask someone who Shlomo was mekarev, and see if they would have felt differently had he not hugged and kissed them.
How many people that Shlomo was mekarev thought it was ok to touch people of the opposite sex because Shlomo did it and said it was ok?