Professional snuggler - what do you think?

As my daddy use to say, "Just get a dog. their cheaper and they can be trained"

Yeah, dad had issues.

 

Oh come on. Some man/boy love?

 

Nah, I'm saving up all my energy for whenever you're available for a really angry snuggle.

 

Otherwise known as a Tennessee grudge fuck.

 

You know sometimes a person just needs that certain touch of closeness. Body heat, feel the breathing of another, hear their heart beat. I think it could be pretty cool, but don't know if it I would be able to stop with just a cuddle, snuggle. Whatever you want to call it.

 

Plan9 called it a 'gateway touch', and seriously, that has been precisely what some clients have needed; sometimes their first experience of a touch that lets them 'breathe freely' simultaneously with contact, a 'reference experience', a demonstration in show-not-tell of what is possible in life.

In plenty of humanistic psychology trainings I attended, hugging and snuggling was a tool of the trade and part of the curriculum. The 'Humanistic Hug' could have been offered as an Olympic sport, it was that well defined and assessible. "Eight point three ... Nine point two ... Nine point four, and now for the Ukranian scores". It was a Non-Judgemental Unconditional Love Hug that could last for up to fifteen minutes. Which at £120 per hour was a good £30.

What made it more than just paying for hugs was that we were trained to encourage the client to explore what all that meant in contrast with some of their earlier life, in order that they should identify how to generalise those learnings into the present and future. Regardless of their ease or difficulty in making those learnings, the hug itself was beneficial to their well-being.

One of the things, IMO, in favour of the paid hug/snuggle, is that the formality of the contract includes the explicit acceptance of definite boundaries ... that some of its benefits are specifically because of the solid agreement beforehand regarding what it does NOT involve. The safety line can work for both parties. I can conjour in my mind a sense of it being a bit creepy or odd, but that dissolves as I contemplate the infinity of what what people can want or be willing to provide to and from each other.

 

That's why we have friends, right? I mean, not as a man... but, you know, people have friends. Women have friends they can hug, right?

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Hah, reminds me of the Chapelle Show Sex Contract (TM) thing. "Check this block for anal. Ah, I didn't think so." Heh, that skit is true enough. I guess the one thing that can be said of canned intimacy is that you know how far you can go and you know that you're getting what you paid for because you paid for it. How many of us have tried to be intimate only to deal with a flip-flopping or disinterested partner? It's a real nightmare as a guy in the 2000s. Dating these days is often a bit like going out with a bear trap that wants you to polish its teeth. Too hard, more rough, right here, too much... blah. It's enough to make a guy go out and drop money on a woman that'll list what is on the menu like Ben Stein reading a phone book.

So, yeah, love is a legal quagmire where you try to get off together instead of getting off in court.

/hyperbole

 

Bullshit. It's yet another enlightened product to purchase in our self-isolated, consumer-based society. A bunch of brokenhearted first world solipsists using all-to-happy people like vending machines because, after all, they're not really real, are they? Life sucks when you have to talk to people and build relationships to receive intimacy. Fuck that, lemme fast track this shit by purchasing my first hug, my first blowjob and my first "I Love You."

I mean, Jesus Christ, you can't put training wheels on social rites of passage, people. That sounds like a great way to breed some me-first serial killers.

Between the make-money-money state of higher ed. in the US and how many black belt factories are out there... seems like a natural progression.

I say these motherfuckers aren't lonely... they're the worst kind of coward: The lazy kind.

 

And you're no better. Why don't you do what is in that stupid image in your posts.

 

I've been trolled by the best. You can do better.

 

ASU2003 ... hang on a mo, 'bro ... try this for size and if it doesn't fit, chuck it:

Many of your blogs are underlining the Social conditions that make people's lives impossible, yes?

Now look at this:

And I'll do my best to say this: A healthy community has these training wheels Built In ... or a More Organic community has them. So well built-in that they do not seem to be training wheels, just the 'natural way of things'. I've often said there'd be no need for psychotherapists, those paid understanding friends, if the community worked better. These disconnected training wheels shouldn't be needed BUT given the way 'society' is, then they are better than the 'nothing' that people increasingly face, in a world in which more and more is being got done with less and less direct contact, threfore less and less contexts in which to hold or witness these social rites of passage.

Hokay .. I've not got my thoughts organised well, but I wanted to get back to you quickly. Because I reckon Plan's got a point .. a bloody strong one ... and that his point is on the same side as stuff that you consider to be crucial (in your blogs)

take care


edit: one down-side to my reasoning is that I might be referring to a 'golden Age' that never existed. Pre-technological history has its own lists of cast-outs and outsiders and dang confused etc.

 

Okay, why would he need "cuddling" if he was in a relationship?

Why is all the cuddling in her bed?

Would anyone be interested in cuddling her if she didn't look like she does?

Sorry, but I think there might be more in the way of motivator than just a "need" to spoon somebody (anybody, please!) for an hour.

How does she weed out the potential crazies?

How does she manage the lonely "regulars" who have deluded themselves.into believing that the cuddling in bed has morphed into a relationship? Common sense pretty much assures me this is a given progression.

 

Everyone just needs their own Stanley. Unconditional love, lots of hugs, a listening ear, and an understanding face. Half of animals taken to shelters have their lives taken from them.
As for hugs - what about this one? Dont think you can rent or buy it.

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txjCKyKwQg0&feature=related

 

Yep your right on that, and I do. I'm a hugger and I enjoy being one. Not to much of a snuggler though.

 

Her website
http://www.thesnuggery.org/

from the FAQ

So getting wood is expected, just don't expect to do anything with it.

Sure, I'd feel real comfortable spooning her when all of a sudden...... hi there, its Mr. Happy!

 

Listen, Dr. Science... if I wanna go all Henry "No, Sir, I Don't Like It" Anslinger on cuddle whores, it's my prerogative. US Drug Policy'd!

We all know that women belong barefoot, in the kitchen and guided by Romney. Snuggle sluts are a direct result of them going to college.

Oh, so many jokes... must... refrain.

 

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Well, they are EJKWT-style jokes.