Our Cuddling Needs (2020 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 30 March 2024
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March 2, 2020
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Deservant listeners, as many of you know, as I often will rant about, mainstream American culture, |
| 0:06.0 | and maybe even particularly here at the Pacific Northwest, we have a culture where it denies human touch, which is a needed thing for us to feel at balance, for us to |
| 0:18.7 | feel attuned to, for us to feel attached, for us to feel normalized, for us to feel okay. |
| 0:25.0 | And we, some people will go for months without ever touching a single human being |
| 0:32.0 | except for like incidental touching maybe like |
| 0:35.2 | bumping into someone on the bus or maybe a handshake here and there and even those people who I would consider |
| 0:42.2 | to be quite touchy probably maybe hug someone once a day, |
| 0:46.0 | which I think is not natural. |
| 0:48.0 | If we look to our primate cousins, they're all over each other all the time because they don't have society telling them that |
| 0:54.2 | touching is gross or creepy or dependent or childish or something or you're going to catch a disease |
| 1:01.3 | or whatever it is that prevents us all from getting us what we need. |
| 1:06.0 | And so there are movements afoot in our society to try to change this, |
| 1:12.0 | one of which is what I'm just going to call the |
| 1:13.9 | cuttling movement, if you will. I first started to hear about this in the 90s, |
| 1:19.1 | maybe the auts. These organizations that people would get together either like a support group, like a peer support group, |
| 1:27.0 | they're like, hey, we need human touch and we're going to cuddle. |
| 1:32.0 | And it's not sexual and if there's nothing sexual about it |
| 1:36.4 | it's just human touch and it's you know voluntary and consensual and |
| 1:41.8 | there's rules around it and you know all the personalities are there trying to |
| 1:45.9 | and then there were like professional cutlers that start to come out you know people |
| 1:50.0 | who you go into their yurts and you get under a blanket and you cuddle. |
| 1:54.5 | And when I heard about this, of course, my first knee-jerk reaction was like, well that's kind of odd |
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