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| A "cuddle shop" in Oregon -charges $1/minute- 60 minute sessions. Cameras in the rooms so no hsnk psnky, I believe it is in a mall.
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Samantha Hess slipped off her shoes.
Her client, Etienne Illige-Saucier, quickly followed suit.
Soon, their bodies tangled together. Her fingers roamed Illige-Saucier’s shoulder, coming to a rest in the thick of his hair. His tattooed arm wrapped around her waist as jazz guitar riffs rippled through the room.
They had done this before. Four times, in fact. At 60 bucks a pop.
For the next 50 minutes, their eyes stayed shut, their clothes stayed on and neither uttered a word.
Then Illige-Saucier arose and left, a serene and sleepy smile drawn across his face.
“Touch is often something that we skirt around,” he said. “But I indulge in it.”
And for that, he turns to Samantha Hess.
But Hess is not a prostitute. She’s a professional cuddler. And before you go shaking your head and grousing that the wool is being pulled over someone’s eyes, know that she isn’t alone. She is one among a budding industry of healers sprouting up nationwide who believe that an intimate – though strictly non-sexual – snuggle by a stranger can bring contentment and solace to those who otherwise might go without.
Video: Samantha Hess, professional cuddler
Samantha Hess read about some folks who were making money at something she was naturally gifted in -- cuddling. It was the start of a new profession for Hess.
Crops of cuddle therapists have taken root in places like western New York and Madison, Wisc., but the 29-year-old Hess emerged this summer as Portland’s pioneering practitioner.
Charging $60 an hour, Hess cozies up to men of all stripes and ages – and, so far, one woman – in movie theaters, parks and clients’ bedrooms.
She’ll wear glittery makeup and put her hair down, if it makes her companion more comfortable. Socks? Optional, as are the colors of the tank tops, t-shirts and capri pants she dons during snuggle sessions.
Hess can be the big spoon. Or the little spoon. She is often both.
“It’s something I knew there was need for,” Hess said during a recent interview, seated cross-legged in Laurelhurst Park.
She had been scrawling “You Are A Bucket Of Awesome” and other positive affirmations in sidewalk chalk near the park’s horseshoe pit awaiting a reporter she invited to talk cuddle shop.
The 5-foot, 115-pound Hess greeted her visitor with a three-minute hug.
“Many of us in our adult lives haven’t had the touch that we need to really thrive,” she said. |
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| Definately not my cup of tea - ... but I see no problem with it. People pay for a lot more than just cuddling.  |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | This is ridiculous. Seriously?!? ewww |
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| Not my cup of tea either, sad that people have the need to pay for this, that they don't have this in their life already. |
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Location: Midwest | It's really popular in China
Not many women there. (Ratio wise :-P)
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Location: PNW | Lol people in Portland/Eugene do some whacky stuff. Please know that we are not all total weirdos. Lol |
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| And yet they profess that purchasing legal marijuanna definitely leads directly to purchasing stronger illegal drugs. Therefore, paying to cuddle would also lead to paying to do more intimate things, which are by the way also illegal to purchase. |
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| all I can do is laugh when I read this.... hahahaha 
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| I am oringinally from Southern Nevada where there are counties that "more intimate things" are legal. LOL
It is sad someone needs to pay for any of this... but why should it be any of our business? It doesn't affect you. I say make sure they are a legitimite business (business license, taxes, etc.) and move on. Theres obviously a need for it -- maybe move love, less violence?!?! |
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| Wow!
I teach students about relationships and related topics in high schools. When women and men are touched, whether holding hands, cuddling, kissing, or more they release chemicals (vasopressin and oxytocin) in the brain that cause emotional and mental attachments. When a women is touched, she releases oxytocin causing synapses to form in her brain-causing a emotional bond to whoever is touching her. In fact within 10 seconds of being touched, cuddled, etc. her brain releases these chemicals beginning the bonding process. Men and women don't realize how many problems this can create!
So! Be careful who you pay and what you get paid for LOL! |
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Location: Oregon | She is definitely doing her part at keeping Portland weird...
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| Mis_Trev - 2014-11-17 12:54 PM I am oringinally from Southern Nevada where there are counties that "more intimate things" are legal. LOL
It is sad someone needs to pay for any of this... but why should it be any of our business? It doesn't affect you. I say make sure they are a legitimite business (business license, taxes, etc.) and move on. Theres obviously a need for it -- maybe move love, less violence?!?!
Actually my point was that if one senario is legal by the same logic the other should also be legal. |
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Location: North Dakota | I'm a cuddler. I'd hug anyone...but not for an hour. That's just uncomfortable. |
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Location: sunny california | why pay? that is what cats are for |
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Location: Kansas | Gross!!!! |
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Location: on my horse | kwanatha - 2014-11-17 6:46 PM
why pay? that is what cats are for
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| redmansmyman11 - 2014-11-18 12:50 PM
kwanatha - 2014-11-17 6:46 PM
why pay? that is what cats are for
yep! lol
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