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MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Organizers of Cuddle Parties in Tennessee say the events are aimed at giving adults the chance to experience nurturing, non-sexual touching with strangers.
Anna Grupke, a Cuddle Party hostess in Murfreesboro, said the four parties she has thrown at her house since May have drawn all types of people, including doctors, construction workers and mothers, The (Nashville) Tennessean reported Monday.
Shades of Leo Felice Buscaglia (a.k.a. "The Hug Doctor.") Remember him?
At first blush, these cuddle parties seem to fulfill humans' needs for connection, touch and nuturing...and IMHO, aren't likely to attract sexual predators (as some fear), who have a whole different agenda in mind.
Ralph Childs, a Nashville licensed professional counselor, and some other behavior experts said Cuddle Parties could be magnets for sexual predators. Childs said hugging and cuddling should be reserved for non-strangers.
"I would never send a client of mine to one of these parties," he said.
Ralph Childs sounds like a greedy businessman who recognizes that Cuddle parties are bad for business! If his patients did attend one of these cuddle parties, they would probably no longer need his services. He also comes across to me as being feraful that particiapnts of these cuddle parties are not likely to become his patients in the future. IMO, his expressed concern is a thinly disguised ploy to protect his business interests.
Cuddle Parties? Has the world become so disconnected, so lonely that one would consider lying down next to a total stranger for physical contact? That's a sad commentary on our society, isn't it?
Frankly, I think the likelihood of being next to a sexual predator is far less likely than being exposed to a normal human being with normal emotions and attractions.
I can't see how lying with a member of the opposite sex in their pajama's couldn't help but lead to sexual attraction. After all, we're all human and subject to the same temptations. Nobody is immune.
As for me, I think I'll follow this advice and stay away from such foolishness: "If you don't want to fall, don't walk in slippery places."
Has the world become so disconnected, so lonely that one would consider lying down next to a total stranger for physical contact?
I don't think it's the world as a whole, but apparently certain people have reached that point. Maybe it's a good thing, that what is possibly the leading edge of humanity, is moving beyond the fear-of-strangers limitation. I think the fear-of-strangers trance does more to keep people disconnected from one another than any other belief that pervades society.
I have absolutely no fear of strangers.
Unless they get too close.
Then, if they present a threat, I will either flee or fight.
If they are friendly, it might lead to breeding.
I have no idea what's up with those cuddling wacko's.
Their parties seem to be perversions of natural law.
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