Professional snuggler - what do you think?

Just read an article on a lass (young lady) who charges people $60 an hour to cuddle up to her in her home. She has various rules in place including ones which prohibit touching of a sexual nature.

Jackie Samuel snuggle: Cuddling makes one woman $260 a day in New York | Mail Online

Hopefully should be a link to the story above, if not I'm sure you can google 'Jackie Samuel,The Snuggery'.

Now one part of me sees this as harmless and I'm quite happy to live and let live but another part of me has some sort of unconscious shudder. I cant really tell you why it makes me feel uneasy, but I just know that it does.

What do you guys think?

 

I think it's fascinating. I certainly think that the people calling her a prostitute and 'worse than a prostitute' are way out of line. She's no more a whore than the 'Hugging Saint'. It's called The Snuggery, not The Buggery. People need a little oxytocin (it's nickname is 'cuddle hormone' for pete's sake) now and again. Their reasons are their own, and there are likely almost as many valid resons for her service as there are people to employ her service.

I can understand a certain discomfort with the concept. What she offers can be considered incredibly intimate. And that's cool. People have different comfort levels and different tolerances. For my own part, I say power to her.

As an aside, I wonder how peope would react if it were a man offering this service. Would he be a man-whore? Would he be a hero and a stud?

 

Hmm. This could be an interesting business proposition for me while I'm in grad school.. snuggle with someone while I do homework or read articles, get paid at the same time.

 

Crazy.
I would just want to bone her.

 

I like the idea.

 

sounds like it's paying to be in the friendzone

 

No, that's courting a Christian "fundamentalist."

 

Sounds like excuses to me. Modern society has also made it easier to engage in non-committal relationships such as the FWB thing. It's not uncommon for busy middle class white city people to hook up with a near stranger they met on a dating site. I've engaged in such things and the experience of connection with another human being was definitely improved by featuring the full three courses instead of 20 minutes of appetizer.

Meh... the only way this kinda bullshit would work is if it was two chicks in post break-up mode. It would involve ratty pajamas and a lot of tissues.

Also: Fuck asexual people, they're the new gay.

 

Snuggling is a gateway touch.

 

Though I see nothing wrong with paying for sex, someone who has to pay someone else to show them a little non-sexual affection must be desperate simply for human contact.

That someone would try to profit from that desperation rubs me the wrong way.

 

Hey, don't call my TFP donations desperate.

Also: Why are some these people cuddling in outfits from Express? I mean, skintight fasho-business attire doesn't strike me as the type of garment I would wanna be in while I blow a stack on a girl wrapping her arm around my ribs. It also makes for awkward photos. And bedtime stories? GTFO.

 

OMG, this made me laugh. A lot. And then kind of feel bad.

That is the uttermost zenith of patheticness: laying out money for "companionship" of the opposite sex where you just cuddle and can't do anything sexual! What kind of self-loathing masochist pays a woman to professionally friend-zone him?!

I don't think having actual sex for money is too emotionally healthy, but at least I get the concept. This...this is just sadder than a basketful of sick kittens. I really don't see how this is any better than paying a girl to dress up like a hot high school cheerleader so that she can reject you in front of much cooler people, and you can then pretend not to be ashamed, try not to cry about it, and then go home and masturbate while thinking about her.

 

I really need you to party with you. Sans snuggling, of course.