Right or left, I’m afraid the result to be somewhat tainted by the fact that the huggers right is the huggee’s left and I assumed that the reference was from the point of view of the huggee.
But the fact is that I find once you make a gesture for a hug the woman usually manages to direct you.
Um… No. Unless you’re hugging a mirror, huggee and hugger go the same way. If all goes well, that is.
I plan on giving someone a major full body hug on Saturday. I wonder what would happen if I tried a “wrong” right hug. Social awkwardness?
Being that she broke our last date to get sick, pass out, and wake up on her bathroom floor in a pool of blood, maybe I should go for the non-stitches side. Would that be the “good boyfriend” thing to do?
I had to think about it, but I think I go to the left. When I was an awkward teenager I loved getting hugs due to the boob squish from girls :D. Now that I’m older I like it because I’m a dirty old man.
I voted “never noticed” but as I’m thinking about it, I go from my right, so probably their left. (I think). Now every time I hug someone I’m going to be checking! 
I usually reach up (I’m about 5’) or right, I guess, if I’m hugging someone my height.
I go to MY left but that is to the huggee’s right. The phrase “to the left of the person” is not sufficiently clear.
I go right, but most people go left, which tends to cause a problem.
This thread made me notice that the people with whom I don’t have a problem are lefties (I’m leftie trained as righty); that might be the link.
Same here, but not as intricate in my attempts to avoid physical contact. I just put up with it to grease the wheels of social interaction.
I only like hugging in a sexual context. I’m wondering if other people who generally dislike hugging also dislike it during kissing/making out/sex.
I go left, influenced by all of the Italians I have met who kiss cheeks twice starting on the left.
I try really hard to shake hands instead.
People I love and want to hug - I’ll snag you any which way I can depending on our positions and whether or not there are beverages involved.
[Groucho]I once picked up a book called How to Hug. It wasn’t 'til I got it home that I realized it was volume 5 of the encyclopedia.[/Groucho]
Right arm high, left arm low, my head to their right shoulder. Only for close relatives that I like.
To the left for everyone, straight forward for the SO. Full body embrace for two brothers, mom and dad and grandma (and SO); everyone else our bodies barely touch it’s moreso just our arms around each other.
I voted wrongly, then - I went for “go to the left”, thinking you meant the other person’s left. I myself usually move to the right. I think. Maybe I should have just gone for the last option.
I’m not a hugger, and go into tactical evasion mode as the potential presents.
I don’t really like hugging, except when the huggee is my wife, and we both go to the left (right cheeks together) while I squeeze her left ass cheek with my right hand.
With everyone else, I try to just sort of hold them by the shoulders and bring my upper body forward, as if I’m going in for the hug, but then I can back up after a mild shoulder bump.