Posted on 11/26/2014 8:14:43 AM PST by Enterprise
Nine months after opening, the Cuddle Connection is now in a different location and the client list is in the hundreds.
Kelly Peterson is proving the human touch is powerful, even if it comes from a stranger. “It’s been an amazing journey,” she said.
Peterson is a professional cuddler, and since her business opened in Roseville in March, there has been no shortage of clients looking for a cuddle. “It continues to grow the phone is ringing with new client requests everyday,” she said. She says many of her clients keep coming back for a warm embrace, and even travel from far away.
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Kelly Peterson is proving the human touch is powerful, even if it comes from a stranger. “It’s been an amazing journey,” she said.
Peterson is a professional cuddler, and since her business opened in Roseville in March, there has been no shortage of clients looking for a cuddle. “It continues to grow the phone is ringing with new client requests everyday,” she said. She says many of her clients keep coming back for a warm embrace, and even travel from far away.
Howard Sesser from Napa lost his wife a few years ago, and didn’t want to live much longer himself. He was in bad need of a hug. “I was in a bad place a really bad place,” he said. “To be held and comforted, and that’s what I found and it just really really changed my life.”
Peterson says some clients just want to hold hands or talk. “What I didn’t prepare for was all the emotions,” she said. Which leaves her sometimes needing a hug, too.
Peterson still gets questioned if they offer more than just hugs, and some just think this is plain weird. But she says, for the lonely, depressed, or someone who wants to talk, the Cuddle Connection is more than just a hug from a stranger. Peterson says her hugs are in such high demand that she’s considering expanding her business beyond its Roseville location on Vernon Street to Southern California and even Atlanta.
An hour cuddle session costs about $60.
Just do what the Japanese do and get a body pillow. Costs less.
She might want to give Bill Cosby her number.
Maybe. But I would suggest that she don’t accept any drinks from him.
Can’t see what use there is for a professional cuddler.
If getting up next to here is at all pleasing — then saying “we stop at cuddling” will just make her a professional annoyer.
Is that covered by Obamacare?
Somehow to me this reflects on a very sick society - don’t know why, can’t explain it, but gut feel says sick.
Also, somehow, I’m wondering now if the government has some kind of medicare/Medicaid/entitlement that actually pays for this.
My third musing is that it wouldn’t surprise me if this was just an innovative way for prostitution.
Seems to me there is great potential for something to go wrong.
“Seems to me there is great potential for something to go wrong.”
Yes i would say so. From the picture, possible furniture damage.
TTIWWP
It’s a very sad commentary on an American culture in which we are surrounded by people every day yet we can go weeks and months without being embraced by anyone. One of the things that surprised me on a fairly recent trip to London was how often people hug you there and I mean people who were just meeting me for the first time.
It is just so sad that someone would have to pay for a hug.
I got some VERY angry and nasty replies from freepers when I pointed out that we Americans are not an affectionate society. Let me know how it goes for you.
They’re angry because you pointed out a fact and people who respond to facts with anger generally do so because they have no logical response available to them.
And you’re right. Americans are not very affectionate and I believe it’s because we’re paradoxically a hyper-sexualized society and at the same time we’re obsessed with political correctness. Thus every act of affection is subject to being viewed as (or even prosecuted as) an act of sexual harassment or even sexual assault.
How do you then accept a hug if you suspect a sexual intent behind it? And how do you give a hug if you’re wondering whether or not the person you give the hug to will accuse you of being a sexual predator?
And God forbid you just stroke someone’s hair or put your hand on their shoulder and leave it there because you never know if the person will call the police on you.
So let whoever it is be angry if they want. You’re right to believe what you see when you see it.
You need a hug.
“An hour cuddle session costs about $60.”
Gee, I know several professional cuddlers, but they charge $250 an hour!
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