Get cozy with Jackie…
How one woman is making a living from snuggling
DailyMail: It used to be that a hug was a comforting gesture of companionship between friends or lovers but one woman in Penfield, New York has turned cuddling into a business.
Jacqueline Samuel, 29, opened The Snuggery last month, a place where, from upwards of $60, clients can snuggle with the petite Master’s student in a strictly non-sexual context.
Sessions of up to 90 minutes take place in a private room while friends and family members mill around the house offering protection from any over-enthusiastic clients.
For customers interested in Jackie’s services, most of whom are men, she admits, a series of FAQs provides information about what clothing to wear and what kind of behaviour is appropriate. Sexual arousal, reads the website, ‘is perfectly normal and should not make anyone feel uncomfortable,’ but acting on those impulses is forbidden.
‘This is not about sex, and I’m really straightforward about that,’ she insisted during an interview with 9WSYR.com, adding with a child-like lisp: ‘I always liked to snuggle, it seemed pretty simple to me.’
But the premise behind the unusual idea is perhaps best explained by Ms. Samuel’s study of cognitive science and social work at the University of Rochester. An advocate of the notion that ‘touch’ is a healing activity of which most Americans are deprived, Ms. Samuel believes that just a few minutes of cuddling can relieve stress and aggravation for up to five days.
‘Research provides us with ample evidence that physical contact with others has a positive effect on our physical and mental health,’ she writes on her website TheSnuggery.org. Yet, she continues, ‘we’re afraid of touch.’
After exhaustively searching for a way to become a certified cuddler, Ms. Samuel decided to just get started. Snuggling sessions are one-on-one and clients are advised to change into comfortable ‘loose fitting’ clothes preferably made of ‘natural fibers.’ ‘I always start out spooning and I am pretty small, so usually I’m the little spoon’.
Of the types of embraces available, Ms Samuel told U.S. Metro that she has read the book, Cuddle Sutra, and would be happy to do any of the 100 variations of snuggle positions. ‘It tends to be pretty improvisational,’ she noted. ‘There are different kinds of cuddling positions, but I typically always start out spooning and I am pretty small, so usually I’m the little spoon.’
Promoting her service with pictures of herself in alluring poses wearing pajamas and pretty cotton dresses, the cozy cuddler is not yet drawing enough clients however to give up her real estate day job. ‘It’s cuddling. Either you want it or you don’t,’ she reasoned.
Well, kudos to this woman for her entrepreneurial spirit! I think I’ll pass…I really don’t want to cuddle with a complete stranger. My kitties work pretty good when cuddles needed 
DCG
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Why would anyone want to “snuggle” with a complete stranger? This is so sick, and just another sexual perversion! Only a man with other intentions would be interested in this!
Da’Kota, my nearly four year old Pom, insists on sleeping atop my covers, snuggled up behind me, and we do not charge one another. Of course, he did cost C$ 500 to buy initially, and there have been maintenance costs since, but overall I think this has worked well for both of us.
I saw this on TV but I just don’t get it. It’s a sad commentary on how fragmented and atomized post-modern life is for too many people. What happened to marriage, romance, family? What about pets? Or is all that just too “demanding” of “commitment”?
Thanks, Grouchy, for the reminder, albeit most depressing!
Milo is such a big lug that he steals the covers when he snuggles…
which is whenever there’s a thunderstorm or he get’s chilly in the
wee hours.My kitties were all cuddlers,too
Every body loves a nice beard snuggle !
Uh oh, I see another “disability” in the works. A check every month cause you are snug deprived! My 2 year old daughter likes to snuggle with a soft blanket or soft stuffed animal, should I be taking her to the snuggery instead?
Crap like this is embarrassing.
I have been divorced for ten years and have had girlfriends that weren’t comfortable with sex, or were using me for it. ALL I really want is to spoon on the couch and watch a chick flick, to a car repair show. Men call it spooning, and I call it a cool sip in a desert. Just to be known and know another through comfortable contact. Name your price.
Touch..I’ve always said..it would be wonderful to just feel someone holding you.I’ve been in bed with many women for a while just holding them or feeling their arms wrapped around me without sex…women tell me they feel safe like that in my arms..