Then again, maybe some guys have no problem hiding it.
Actually, you’re right; cuddling someone you already know, who is scared, in an emergency situation, is just perhaps a little unusual. Setting out to meet a bunch of relative strangers with the express purpose of engaging in a very specific kind of interaction, deliberately detached from its normal context, is just something I can’t get my head around.
It’s like inviting strangers to a dinner party and declaring that pickles will be the only thing on the menu; if someone suggests that perhaps some nice cheese or cold sliced meats would go well with them, just remind them that we’re only here to eat pickles, and pickles are nice.
I realise there must be people for whom it all makes sense; I am just perplexed and disturbed by it.
I don’t know what you’re saying; I have no problem hiding behind it.
I think the important this that we’ve established here is that bondage is a normal sort of perversion, whereas things like cuddle parties, key parties, tupperware parties and such are absolutely freaking weird perversions of human behavior. It just makes common sense. Back when humans were evolving from idiots in furs, it was a natural progression: you tied up or caged up the animals so they wouldn’t get away, and you did the same with the women, who did a lot of getting away because they hadn’t invented toothbrushes yet. There’s nothing perverted about it, it arose naturally from a natural desire of guys to secure an ample supply of women, and women’s desire to get away from a creature whose idea of hygeine was smearing himself with bear grease once a week.
Now these cuddle parties are clearly strange and beyond human ken. To tell the truth, I blame strip clubs. It used to be (been awhile since I’ve been to a strip club) that the rule was the naked women could writhe all over you while stark naked or pretty close to it, waggling her butt and breasts in your face and behaving in a wantonly sexual manner, and you weren’t allowed to touch her. It’s an exact mirror image of cuddle parties, where you can touch each other in all sorts of ways, but you must not be sexual, wantonly or otherwise. I believe that cuddle parties created an imbalance in the Force and the terpsichorians made cuddle parties happen.
Yep, that’s what I believe.
I think the important this that we’ve established here is that bondage is a normal sort of perversion, whereas things like cuddle parties, key parties, tupperware parties and such are absolutely freaking weird perversions of human behavior. It just makes common sense. Back when humans were evolving from idiots in furs, it was a natural progression: you tied up or caged up the animals so they wouldn’t get away, and you did the same with the women, who did a lot of getting away because they hadn’t invented toothbrushes yet. There’s nothing perverted about it, it arose naturally from a natural desire of guys to secure an ample supply of women, and women’s desire to get away from a creature whose idea of hygeine was smearing himself with bear grease once a week.
Now these cuddle parties are clearly strange and beyond human ken. To tell the truth, I blame strip clubs. It used to be (been awhile since I’ve been to a strip club) that the rule was the naked women could writhe all over you while stark naked or pretty close to it, waggling her butt and breasts in your face and behaving in a wantonly sexual manner, and you weren’t allowed to touch her. It’s an exact mirror image of cuddle parties, where you can touch each other in all sorts of ways, but you must not be sexual, wantonly or otherwise. I believe that strip clubs created an imbalance in the Force and so the terpsichorians made cuddle parties happen.
Yep, that’s what I believe.
Sorry about that double post. My system said I had not connected so I fixed a word and tried again. Whoops. Where are the post-eating hamster when you need 'em?
After looking at the website, I am wondering about the Men Only Cuddle Parties that are
What is the population of straight men that would go to a “Men Only” cuddle-party? Approaching absolute zero?
Aren’t “Straight Men” and “Men who want to cuddle other Men” two mutually exclusive groups? :dubious:
No.
(I’d rather cuddle women all other things being equal but I would go)
I knew the cutest pair of straight guys in high school. They were best friends - have you ever known two people who were such good friends that you thought to yourself, “You know, you two should just go gay, because you’re never gonna find anyone more perfect for you”? Anyway, while on a bus ride back from a class trip once, I was totally struck to see them sleeping, leaning against each other, one of them with his head on the other’s shoulder. They weren’t exactly cuddling, I guess, but it’s the sort of casual physical contact you expect to see between two people in a romantic relationship, not between two straight guys.
If you’d rather cuddle women, why would you go to a Men Only cuddle-party?
I would hazard a guess that even the ostensibly hetero parties are likely to end up being sausage fests.
Question-are these things sleepovers, or do you just snuggle for a bit and then get up and leave? Because that one woman who went to one so she could write an article about it made it sound like the latter? Which I think sounds even dumber than a mass sleepover cuddle would.
I guess it’s not WRONG, or BAD, so much, but it just seems so odd and pointless. I could see if a bunch of good friends would get together and snuggle on the sofa, but still…I dunno. It just seems rather off.
Hey!
How do you know I’m not wearing a bear suit?
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Well, I was just wondering. Not that I am. Nope, definitley not. Carry on.
Yes, if you did a Venn diagram of the two groups with bisexual and gay men in one circle and straight men in the other, with an overlap for straight men who would attend cuddle parties, it would look like a figure eight or very nearly so. There may be a few exceptions, but not enough to change the shape of the diagram in any significant way.
My suspicion is that the existence of “Men Only” cuddle parties inviting straight men to join in the festivities is about the most blatant example of gays recruiting you could imagine, outside of men-only nude tobogganing.
On first skim I read “tobogganing” as “teabagging”. I point this out only because I think that “men-only nude teabagging” would be slightly more blatant than tobagganing, thus disproving your point.
I have heard rumor that there are some men who fall into the categories of small and medium rather than :eek: 
Good cuddles are good cuddles. It’s not a substitute for sex, it’s not a sneaky approach to sidling up kinda close to sex. It can be sexy but that’s not its raison d’etre.
If I need someone to talk to about personal things, I’d rather talk with a girlfriend, or even a nonromantic female friend, but I wouldn’t turn down a male friend.
Diogenes the Cynic:
You’re strange.
Why would snuggling up next to me give you any prurient interest in my johnson?
Nothing personal, but I wouldn’t recommend hiring you as a babysitter and I’m not sure you should hug your relatives when you’re on holiday.
Oh wait…you mean the place would be <gasp> wall to wall gay men only pretending to be straight, having an orgy and pretending & advertising it as a cuddle party, and there I’d be, lured in by promises of affectionate snuggles and they’d be trying to earn their toasters?
Have you ever considered a career in comedy Mangetout 'cos this is very good y’know.
Strange. Very very strange.
Didn’t this start out as some sort of way for kids, male and female to have pajama parties together?
I derive pleasure from snuggling with my wife. A Stranger? No way. It’s just not the same. I see ‘Ulterior Motive’ like a big Vegas casino sign written all over this.
A person is not a therapy dog.
Anyway, I suppose I understand what a cuddle life guard is. What the hell is a cuddle caddy?