Tag: loneliness
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Professional cuddlers who charge by the hour
Professional cuddling is a real, growing industry charging eighty dollars an hour for non-sexual touch. The clients aren’t who you think, and the science is interesting.
The mental health crisis narrative misses the real driver: a sustained collapse in social connection. Loneliness now correlates with outcomes worse than smoking.
Professional cuddling is a real, growing industry charging eighty dollars an hour for non-sexual touch. The clients aren’t who you think, and the science is interesting.
The loneliness epidemic has become a tidy diagnosis, but it obscures the structural changes driving disconnection. Here’s what the framing gets wrong.