hey, lynn!

[piranha]

i just came across this: http://cuddleparty.com/ and thought it sounded like just the thing for you.

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[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, the gender balance thing stuck out at me right away, and that sort of thing always make me suspicious. i wonder whether it's just a thinly disguised "hey, you het folk could make a love connection here", since most of their clients seem to also be singles, or whether there is some thinking behind it that otherwise they'd get a lot of touch-hungry men and if the ratio isn't approximately 1:1 then the women would feel overwhelmed and the energy of the event would change. or something entirely different -- if i actually thought of attending one, i'd ask, but as it is, i'm not curious enough. and i am completely not tempted, *heh*; if anything, i require less touch than most people i know -- but i thought it was in principle a really neat idea, since a lot of people are touch-deprived, and don't know how to ask for it, nor have the opportunity to explore their own and other's boundaries in a safe way.

interesting about the size thing. the TV clips didn't make it look like there were only thin people there, or only those of the "beautiful" set; i saw several plump ones -- but yeah, alt.polycons, frex, seem to me to be much more over the map size-wise. what i liked best about the clips was the atmosphere in the room -- it really felt like a slumber party with close friends who're all touchy-feely. i like that sort of energy, even if i would likely be at the outer fringes at such an actual event.

[firecat]

When I'm touch-deprived, strangers touching me doesn't seem to be what I want.

I'm bigger than "plump".

I think overall it's a good thing, even if not for me. I think it can't be bad that people are getting more of an opportunity to decide cuddling is OK and not necessarily all about sex. And this seems like a more welcoming forum than SF cons and polycons, which are for people with specific interests, or HAI workshops, which are more expensive and also more mysterious about what exactly goes on.