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Old 02-19-2014, 10:04 PM   #1
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Ali C. runs a snuggle business out of her Manhattan apartment. Her business, Cuddle U NYC, is similar to other cuddle businesses that have popped up in Portland, Rochester and San Francisco. She charges $80 for an hour to lay in bed with her.

Ali’s cuddle business — she strictly prohibits any unwanted advances or sexual contact with a legal waiver — is modeled after similar services that have popped up in Portland, San Francisco and Rochester, N.Y.
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Prospective nestlers must make social media profiles and related websites accessible, as well as provide a copy of their driver’s license. A pre-snuggle interview is also conducted.

“My vetting process is pretty stringent,” she said. “My creepy meter is pretty finely tuned.”

Ali first flirted with the idea of touch therapy at a nursing home as a teenager in Detroit. She’d place her hand on the arms of ill people and watch their mood change instantly. She said eventually like to expand her fledgling service to people with disorders such as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

“I was a really shy kid, at home there wasn't a lot of affection,” she recalled. “I had nobody to cuddle me and hold me and tell me it's going to be alright."
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:22 AM   #2
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Old 02-20-2014, 12:54 AM   #3
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That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. For the most part cuddling isn't of interest, usually as a guy I'm looking to dive out the window five minutes after I'm done if its a one nighter.

Sure if you're married or in a long term relationship and have some intimacy the whole cuddly thing is nice.

But cuddling with a perfect stranger, not getting any action and having to pay for it. Plus having to go through what looks like a clinical vetting process?

Weird.

If I pay extra will she play dutch oven?

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Old 02-20-2014, 01:39 AM   #4
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The more I thought about it, this came across as a service to satisfy "her own insecurities". She didn't get enough cuddling when she was growing so she turns around and gets guys/suckers to pay $80 so she can cuddle with them for 60 minutes.

I find it hard to fathom that she doesn't get aroused when she's cuddling with these guys and wants a little bump and grind. The same goes for some of the guys that pay to cuddle with her. You can't predicit with certainty it's not going to happen.

She can screen her customers as best as she can but that doesn't eliminate some creep slipping through all her tests and interviews for the service and then raping her.

I can't imagine too many guys paying for that. Besides you'd have to be pretty desperate to pay someone to have a little cuddle with
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Old 02-20-2014, 01:59 AM   #5
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That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen. For the most part cuddling isn't of interest, usually as a guy I'm looking to dive out the window five minutes after I'm done if its a one nighter.

Sure if you're married or in a long term relationship and have some intimacy the whole cuddly thing is nice.

But cuddling with a perfect stranger, not getting any action and having to pay for it. Plus having to go through what looks like a clinical vetting process?

Weird.

If I pay extra will she play dutch oven?
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Old 02-20-2014, 05:39 AM   #6
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I saw this somewhere else, forget where. As for the part about touch therapy and helping people who are ill I think that's a wonderful idea. But as for just paying for cuddling I definitely think that's kinda silly.

I'm not going to say that no guy wants to cuddle, but why not do it with someone you know? For free?

And if you don't have someone, I would imagine you're so wound up you'd want more than just cuddling. In fact, the cuddling would get awkward. Why not just pay for the sex, and get a cuddle in after?

I guess it has possibilities if you just came from a rave and still have a blood stream full of MDMA!
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Old 02-20-2014, 11:54 AM   #7
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Let the invisible hand of the market cuddle this opportunity to success/failure
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1. Start cuddling business
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3. Sell to Facebook for $19 billion
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So what if she actually wants to have relations with her cuddle partner? Is it then prostitution? Or is the payment just for the hugs?
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I look forward to seeing the first professional cuddler to get shot down by O'leary in the Dragons Den.
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I dont know if I'd want to be cuddled by someone who would cuddle just anyone. They might be a cuddlewhore but that doesnt mean I'd want any part of their questionable hygiene...
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I dont know if I'd want to be cuddled by someone who would cuddle just anyone.
I feel that jhunt should weigh in on this.
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So what if she actually wants to have relations with her cuddle partner? Is it then prostitution? Or is the payment just for the hugs?
Is that the same as, we know what you are, now we're just negotiating the price?
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So what if she actually wants to have relations with her cuddle partner? Is it then prostitution? Or is the payment just for the hugs?
If the man happens to extend his taddywhacker into her cubby hole, it's just a value added service.
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