Mmm, besides not handling 2 days after eating, nor the first week you get a snake... my personal opinion is the more you handle, the calmer the snake will be when you handle (with reasonable limits, of course!)
I'll bow to others with more experience, but I have raised up at least eight corns from babies to full adults (well over 300g), and another four to "teenagers" (~200g), as well as a couple kenyan sand boas... the corns and kenyans I handled lots when babies are now adults that are mellow to handle, and to remove in and out from their cages. Even though in the last year or two I haven't handled nearly as much. The few babies I didn't handle much (1 adult and the 4 "teenagers"), as well as a pair of adults I got from a breeder that probably weren't handled much either, are much jumpier to take in and out, hold, etc.
The corn itself would probably prefer not to be handled, given a choice, and it's absolutely okay not to handle for a few days, even weeks, but I would say that for it to make a nice pet handling at least once a week for 30 min or so is a good idea.
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