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To Be an Embracer?
Professional Platonic Intimacy: Yay or Nay?
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If you had the opportunity to be a professional platonic cuddler, would you do it?
As a woman, there is something appealing about setting my rates, providing physical companionship to people (skewing most likely toward a mostly male clientele), and needing to maintain the professional boundary of no sexual contact or engagement.
It’s kind of even a domme-light dynamic. Men can have my attention and my physical touch, and they must pay to be in the presence of my company and energy; but, while they may touch, to a degree, touch and behavior that is explicitly sexual in nature is prohibited.
By helping to support men in intimacy and physically support or comfort them, while disallowing a sexual dynamic, I am also forcing them in a sense to raise their vibration. So many times, men seek out women to have sexual experiences with, when ultimately what they are craving is intimacy and connection. And such intimacy and connection is often deeper when it does not become confined to or defined so quickly by a sexual dynamic.
But is it really worth it? … To be honest, as a professional health and transformational coach and earth medicine advocate and guide, I also am very wary of the clients and the…