Some people are paying for cuddles. And it's not what you might think.
When Samantha Hess’s marriage ended five years ago, she felt she was lacking a basic human need: Physical touch. As a woman in her late 20s living in Portland, Oregon, she found plenty of men interested in dating, but sexual contact was not what she craved – she wanted something platonic, and she couldn’t find it. “I was kind of an empty shell of touch deprivation,” she said. “I thought, ‘Why isn’t there a Starbucks for hugs, where do I go for that?’ So I realized that […]
