I ran across this ad and remembered visiting this website in the past.
Here's the text of the ad:
Hi ladies,My name is Rebecca, and I am becoming a Certified Cuddle Party Facilitator. I have a background in intercultural training and counseling, have been to a Cuddle Party Facilitator training, and have been helping run cuddle parties in West LA since the Spring.
After attending and helping to run over 12 cuddle parties, I keep loving them for the safe, non-sexual, affectionate, ~real~ and human space they offer. Plus, they're a great place to show off my pyjama collection!
Now that I am about to be running these workshops all on my own I want to see how it is with just us girls! I think that the support, the openness, and the great relaxation that cuddle party gives a lot of people will only be intensified by making it a single-gender thing.
Feel free to check out our website at www.cuddlela.com!
Funny enough, I have issues about being touched by strangers. So I definitely won't be going to any of these anytime soon.
But I had to post about this in case it strikes your fancy.
Posted by jozjozjoz at August 3, 2005 08:01 PMHalfway through I was thinking this is something only chicks would show up for.
Nothing says P.W. for a guy faster than Cuddle Party.
Posted by: mice at August 3, 2005 11:08 PMthe only time i want to cuddle with strangers is after a bunch of us have hot, raunchy, passionate ... oops, sorry. was that out loud?
Posted by: tj at August 4, 2005 04:40 AMThis cuddle thing's goin' nationwide...which doesn't make it any less weird or wrong.
Posted by: Robert W. Leu at August 4, 2005 07:05 AMthat is completely weird. I don't even like strangers to brush up against me on the bus.
Posted by: Genevieve at August 4, 2005 07:18 AMi only like to give hugs to people i like. cuddling is, in some ways, even more intimate than having sex (s&f).
at a sex club, you can tell someone (or indicate in some way) that you don't want to have sex with them. if i were to ever go to a cuddle party (i've been invited in the past) is there a way to tell someone there that you don't want to cuddle with them? if there isn't, i might be cuddling with some creep. ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Posted by: Howard (AiYahh) at August 4, 2005 09:46 AMHmmm--no thanks. I'll just make Kevin cuddle me more.
Posted by: Ginny at August 4, 2005 01:59 PMthat's just...weird. if these were queer women, it'd be somewhat more ok, since my dyke friends have told me about parties like that before. but if these were straight women--then it just smacks like it'd be the beginning of some major drama starting up.
or it could just be like girl bar in WeHo. :)
Posted by: stkyrice at August 4, 2005 06:21 PMno stranger cuddling for me, especially when one online cuddling faq says you should consider random erections as Nature's thumbs up! in that case, I'd like a thumbs *down* please.
Posted by: Monika at August 8, 2005 07:32 AMHi there!
I just thought it might help to address the concern about saying no--that's actually one of our biggest points at Cuddle Party. I mean, who the hell would feel comfortable if we said we were going to force you to cuddle strangers? Not me. I like Cuddle Party because it's a forum for exercising free will in a powerful way.
And the stranger thing? Well, strangers are just friends you've not met yet. And when you go to a Meetup or some other group of self-selcting like-minded folks, you don't feel the same about them as you would the people you ride the bus with, would you?
I know that your reactions will be what they will be, but since I'm allowed to comment too, I thought I would bring up these points. Anyone interested in further discussion, feel free to email.
Yours,
Rebecca
Posted by: Rebecca at August 9, 2005 08:48 AM
Okay, yeah, the very idea is rather creepy, IMHO. Shake hands with a stranger? Sure, no problem. A hug for someone I'm not really close to? Maaaaybe a quick one. Cuddle with strangers? Um, can you say "affection-starved", boys and girls? I knew you could.
Posted by: Deltus at August 3, 2005 08:11 PM