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Now that DS is older and on the verge of walking, I'm not so worried about it unless the other kid appears sick.

My daughter has lots of boyfriends. Little boys love hugging her. Only once though was she the pursuer. She followed one of my moms neighbors kids around smacking her lips because she wanted a kiss. It was funny and bizarre all at the same time, I'd never seen her act that way and she hasn't done it again but she just kept crawling after the boy (who's about 4 and she was only like 9 months) and then giggle like crazy when he'd hug her.

Depends on the ages of the boys, but if it were the case that I wasn't comfortable with how they were handling my (future!) child I would say something along the lines of "LO likes it when_____ (we talk to her like this/people touch her arm right here/people make this face/ etc" and see if they do that instead. It would depend on the boys themselves but I think it sounds like they were gentle, curious kids. I can see why you might not want them touching your baby though, they've been running around at the park touching all kinds of surfaces that others have touched and maybe even bugs or whatever little creatures they find!

I think I'd be casual enough about it if it's clearly not aggressive and the other child is not actually filthy! Germ exposure will allow LO to build immunity, child exposure builds social skills so I can't really see how it can be avoided.

There's a little girl who lives around here that loves lo. I've seen her at the library and different events downtown. She always comes up to lo and touches her face. It does kind of bother me because I don't know where her hands have been, but I let her do it. I think it's sweet, and so far lo hasn't gotten sick after it.

If it's a really little kid (like toddler age), I think it's cute, and I think that's kind of par for the course of bringing your kid to an area where little kids congregate. Infants and toddlers are interested in other kids, and if you don't want your child interacting with other kids, than I think you've got the options that @Looch mentioned. When I drop LO off at daycare, kids come up to him and touch him (on the face, on the arm, hugs, whatever) all the time. And LO does it to other kids. No one thinks twice about it.
With older kids, I think they should be able to be responsive to feedback from you or your LO if you discourage the attention, and they should have a better sense of personal space and social cues and such, but I still think it's pretty normal for older kids (whether 5 years old, or 12 years old) to be interested in younger kids. And while I think a 5 year old is old enough to understand personal space, I think there are plenty of benign reasons that he could be interested in a baby... maybe he has a younger sibling and is used to being able to be very familiar with a baby, maybe he is working through some developmental delays re: understanding social interactions and getting social cues, or maybe he's actually younger than you think (my boss at work has kids who are off the charts for height, and is constantly frustrated- and often embarrassed- when people assume that her three year old is five or six).