- You know, I'm not here to talk.
I'm here to cuddle.
- I feel like cuddling is a very intimate thing
that I don't do with strangers very often.
- They told us that they were gonna give us
some professional cuddlers to cuddle with
and my body is ready.
I love cuddling with people.
- I try it sometimes if I'm inebriated
or when I'm feeling like confident,
like, "Oh hey!"
- I'm surprisingly fine.
I love cuddling, I love bodies.
Bring it on!
- I can be very physically affectionate with people
that I have a Platonic relationship with,
but I have a hard time cuddling with people
that I have no relationship with at all.
- I think I'm pretty good at it.
I've got like pretty firm thighs and bullocks,
got some pretty good shoulder action going.
- A good cuddler is someone who is full
of unconditional love
and affection towards any human being.
- I just think maybe it would be somebody
who is emotionally open.
- Most people when they think of this
they immediately go to like,
like there's a creepy quality to it,
and what I observe as somebody providing the service
are people hungry to receive touch.
So, as you can see here, this is an agreement
that a typical client would look at.
But first thing you'll notice
is that it's a non-sexual experience
which is sort of different for people.
You know, like, "I'm in bed with a person",
you think, "Oh, it has to be sexual",
but actually will stay totally rated G.
- I think I'm more used to cuddling
by the light of, like, a TV
or, like, in my bed with my boyfriend.
- You feel very exposed right now.
- Yeah, I do.
- Yeah.
- I very much do.
- Would you like to nestle?
- Um, is that a type of cuddling?
'Cause I'm so down.
- We call it companioning.
- This is called companioning?
- Yeah.
- This position is called companioning?
- It's just sitting next to somebody.
- So, would you like to be on your side?
- Sure, I'd like it to be comfy.
- All right, you get comfy.
Get comfy and I'm gonna come around you.
Okay.
Is it okay if I put my body against yours?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so, I'm gonna do that.
- Like everyone has different needs
and for some people, they just need like, you know,
someone to talk to and hang out with.
- I feel like physical touch
with other men of my age group
is really meaningful to me,
and I never touch men of the generation older than me.
Like it never goes past the handshake.
- It makes sense to me,
because they just simply might not be ready for it.
(light piano music)
- I feel like I always wanted a sister
and so, I love it when people play with my hair,
'cause it feels like, like...
- Feels like having a sister.
- I'm feeling okay, that was very relaxing.
It was...
Yeah, did take me a while to sink into it
just because I'm not, like, that comfortable
with touching strangers.
- The entire thing was...
I mean, the cuddling was a big part of it,
it felt like the conversation
and the sort of constant communication
and caring for one another, it was more
of what it was about.
- I feel so happy, that was so nice!
I feel like we went from, like, strangers to best friends
like that (flick).
- I came in here as like a cocky little shit
thinking that, I was so confident, like,
"Yeah, these people can face me"
But when you're actually being held by a stranger
it's, eh...
It opens you up to a lot of, like, truth.
- It's here! It's here!
- (shouting) It's here!
- It's here! - It's here!
- It's here! Get it!
- Get it! - Get it!
- There!
- I think I got it. Get it!
- Yeah, you get it.
- It's here!