Iβm friends with sex workers who give comfort just like this. Some of them donβt even have sex on their menus, just physical touch, companionship, and listening. They say itβs exhausting, perhaps even moreso than sex, but the pay is good. Thereβs boundary issues to watch out for.
this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2025
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donβt even have sex on their menus
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Just sashaying up to the counter, βa number nine combo and a medium sex.β
"Sorry, we're all out of sex. How about a hotly contested disagreement followed by rapprochement and eventually a blossoming mutual respect and admiration over the course of several months?"
Does it come with a side of friendship?
Probably π€·
What kind of dipping sauce?
Wait there are 12 days of Christmas, you switched back way too soon you heathen!
You don't want to know..
Thatβs literally why I asked though.
I'm afraid that information isn't publicly available.
oh look, i found it, the information.
Doesn't sound too bad
I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
"Did you want fries with that?"
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How much for a "hug n tug"?
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Wait till you find out about Cam girls
really? what do you think i will discover when i find out?
It's really not that surprising and I'd wager that non-intercourse sex work is vastly more common than the other
That sounds like therapy with touching and without the responsibility. Probably not a bad job.
Yeah but without the years of training on how to manage and help people's emotional problems.
and the years of training on compartmentalizing work and personal life.
True. Not a job for me anyway, people are just... ugh.
*to work with
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I used to know a gal who did SW at night, though at the time I wasn't aware of her occupation. She'd regularly hang out with my buddy and I. One day he was complaining about his back and she offered him a massage, then offered me one as well as I'd been known to have a bad shoulder While it wasn't the absolute best massage I'd had, it was up there above most places covered by my medical.
I could 100% see people paying for company and a non-sexual contact from somebody like that. She was good with people and had a sense for now to relax people physically and emotionally.
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A huge amount of sex workers' actual jobs is giving just that level of intimacy and comfort.
Which sounds nice but itβs really a false intimacy unless you actually go on to develop a long term relationship with that sex worker.
I think one of the biggest contributors to our growing societal sense of alienation is all the surrogates we use for genuine adaptive functions. Everything from fast food to hardcore drugs has been optimized to mimic what are supposed to be honest signals in our brains that guide us toward making good choices in the long run. Intimacy (and feel-good hormones) are supposed to help us survive in the long term by building relationships and strengthening bonds that protect us against all the random risks of life. Building a sense of intimacy with a stranger that you never see again is ultimately going to lead to greater pain and a sense of loss down the road.
Nah false intimacy is coming home to your girlfriend sleeping with your neighbor/best friend then she asks you for tree-fiddy so you look and you realize your girlfriend is about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era.
I AIN'T GIVING YOU NO TREE FIDDY YOU GODDAMN LOCH NESS MONSTER
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Why canβt Conservatism be this instead of lynching brown people and absolving child rapists QQ
Because societies with that level of intimacy have been eradicted years ago. The US in particular has been built by people who had uprooted themselves from the last remains of any such society.
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Any actual data on that?
Lol
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Not funny in any way and sad in so many.
Commentary about how isolated men are?
Or commentary that men have become so ineffectual that they cannot create a single meaningful relationship that evolves to the hug level?
Some things can be blamed on the economy β not this. This is a matter of making first things first and not blaming others for our own short comings.
Some things can be blamed on the economy β not this. This is a matter of making first things first and not blaming others for our own short comings.
This is connected to economy and politics. Neoliberalism, to be exact. Rugged individualism, individual responsibility, every man for himself... The same myths used for concentrating wealth into teeny tiny minority and making masses poorer, are also making us lonely and isolated.
We are pack animals, we have survived for hundreds of thousands of years (millions if you count non-sapient ancestors) by building communes and taking care of eachother.
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I think it's a comment about this artists need for affection more then a commentary about men in general.
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I don't think it's supposed to be funny.
It's a common form of humor to acknowledge difficult things in a light hearted way. You can laugh whilst simultaneously feeling sympathy. Laughter doesn't always have to be at somebody's expense, it can also come from a place of solidarity.
Yeah, all of this is true.
a friend of mine actually tried to pull that trick with commercial hugs. she brought him her gym buddies - some extra big guys and developed a price list with several options. she made around 1k on pure shits and giggles vibes out of that. it was right before the pandemic. those were the days...
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Damn, sad, especially around the holidays.
Is this a commentary on the current psychological state of men or the economy?
both? both.
Soo I've been friends with some sex workers, and professionally known some (I worked in sexual health).
They all tell the same story: about 50% of their clients don't even want sex, or it doesn't get there, because they just wanted someone to talk to for a few hours, someone to listen to them, treat them like a friend even if it's transactional. They said a lot of guys end up crying, talking about their broken relationships and problems.
And then the other 50% want to get freaky as hell, so it's a dichotomy.
A hugker
Intimacy and commercial transaction are mutually exclusive.
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