Palaeo "snuggling/cuddling" services now provided

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3672114/Britain-s-cuddling-agency-promises-help-stressed-executives-unloved-politicians-50-hour-snuggles.html

[cherimoya_kid]

You Brits are too anti-touch. It's not healthy.

[TylerDurden]

Except that this whole innovation ultimately comes from the US......

[eveheart]

Except that this whole innovation ultimately comes from the US......

...but that[/-i] particular innovation is from the descendants of the original anti-touch Brits. General lack of interest among most US cultures must have been the reason that the idea had to be shipped back to England.

[TylerDurden]

It's doing very well in the US since it got started:-

http://www.cnbc.com/2013/11/25/samantha-hess-sells-hugs-for-people-feeling-down.html

https://mic.com/articles/126926/i-went-under-the-sheets-of-new-york-s-pro-cuddling-industry-here-s-what-i-found#.lZvq0OZwb

No doubt the american lust for money leaves some people feeling empty in their lives...

[goodsamaritan]

Interesting cultural nuance there.
Here we have cheap massage services.

[cherimoya_kid]

Interesting cultural nuance there.
Here we have cheap massage services.

Yes, healing massage has a very long tradition in East Asia, especially among the Chinese.

[svrn]

A lot of the massage places in se asia arent what most would call "healing".

I heard of people not being able to find a massage place down there that was non sexual.

[cherimoya_kid]

A lot of the massage places in se asia arent what most would call "healing".

I heard of people not being able to find a massage place down there that was non sexual.

You mean Thailand? That's not the case in China, Vietnam, etc..

[svrn]

Yes the particular reports i heard of not being able to find a non sexual place were from thailand. ALthough I hear the siuation isnt much different in the phillipines.