My son looked up at me, with his huge 2 year old blue eyes, and said, in all sincerity: “NOT TONIGHT” After asking him for a goodnight hug, I felt like my heart had been ripped into tiny little pieces, and I was instantly awash with a hundred replies that wanted to tumble out of my mouth. BUT you hugged daddy… BUT you know you want to… we always do… Don’t you LOVE me? But I WANT to cuddle you… And in that moment, I had to stop and realize that I had created something marvelous. A 2 year old who felt safe enough to impose his own limits on touch and affection, with a parent. A 2 year old w ..read more

Cuddle Buddies is a pensive and reflective dramatic short film meant to incite deep feeling and thought. Lucy is a single mother that works as a professional cuddler for a living.Lucy works hard to support her pride and joy, her daughter Marina who is a six-year-old hyperactive girl. She fights her ex-husband James in an ugly custody battle for full custody of Marina.    Cuddle Buddies is a character-driven film that aims to capture the beautiful moments of the human experience. Envisioned in a lyrical and rhythmic visual style in which the warm and inviting ..read more

A reader writes… You have two rules regarding sexuality…No dry humping, and no sex. The no dry humping is pretty obvious, but the no sex isn’t. Sex means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. How do you define it? -Shawn Great question, Shawn. The quickie answer (pun intended!) is that the Cuddle Party definition of sex is any activity (snuggle, nuzzle, kiss, massage, spoon, etc.) that’s done from the intention of “getting somewhere,” as in, “gotta get to the next base.” Now, I’m sure Bill Clinton and Kenneth Star wouldn’t define “sex” as that above, but let me explain. C ..read more

February 28th, 2005 will mark the one-year anniversary of first-ever Cuddle Party. As the date fast approaches, I am blown away by just how far Cuddle Party has come in just 366 days (Leap Year, remember?). The most touching moment of the past year came to me early one non-descript morning in August when I received a 7:30am call from a stuttery-voiced man asking if there would be any Cuddle Parties in St. Louis come February. I explained that we were planning to begin training people to be Cuddle Party Facilitators early in 2005, but that we didn’t even have an application process ready or an ..read more

One of the most frequently asked questions we get about Cuddle Party is “It’s really a cover for an orgy, right?” In today’s day and age, somewhere, somehow, we became convinced that sustained affection must lead to sex. Therefore, a group of adults touching each other affectionately over a three-hour period MUST turn into an orgy. The two concepts of Touch and Sex got stuck together and squished. All of a sudden, touching became having sex, or on the way to having sex. Therefore, cuddling must lead to sex, right? The answer is NO. No, cuddling doesn’t&n ..read more

Jon Lehrer CP Facilitator, Vancouver BC Many of you already get why a Men’s Cuddle Party would be amazing, eye-opening, fun, connecting, relaxing, or healing. But for some guys, it may not be immediately obvious. And for others, it may be downright frightening! North American culture sends us (particularly straight men) lots of messages about not getting too close to other men, which can leave us a bit isolated! Here are a few reasons* why you might want to consider giving a Men’s Cuddle Party** a try: 1. There are some great men in our community! With all th ..read more

This is by CP facilitator Edie Weinstein, and posted on SMINGLE, a website for singles. SMINGLE: How do cuddle parties play into boundaries and communication? EDIE: Cuddle Party is a 3 1/2 hour workshop designed to offer a safe space to learn about communication, boundary setting and nurturing, non-sexual touch. It includes what I call ‘portable life skills’ that allow participants to practice immediately saying yes to what they want in life and no to what they don’t want. The workshop begins with The Welcome Circle which sets that helps people get to know a bit more about each othe ..read more

I saw this in the window of a local ice cream shop a few weeks ago in Austin Texas. I got a kick out of it – thought you might, too. The post Cuddle Monkey? appeared first on Cuddle Party INC ..read more

Cuddle Party is not about sex. Therefore, it’s not about gender. It’s about people, kindness, touch and communication. However, we realize that it’s a question that comes up, and many people are just not yet at the place where they are comfortable with people of the ‘wrong’ gender. It’s understandable and deserves some thought. What is comfortable? Most people are more comfortable when there is at least an approximately equal mix of men and women. An event with more men than women will often make the men a bit uncomfortable because the number of women feels ‘scarce’, and will make women a bit ..read more