PHOENIX – In new age America, if you need emotional comfort, you can pay someone to cuddle you.
It's legal and unregulated.
But where do you complain if a cuddling session goes too far?
A Phoenix woman says it happened to her in May when she visited an $80-a-session cuddle therapist and the session turned sexual. She wound up with the cuddler's nipple in her mouth for five minutes.
She called police, who told her that nothing illegal had happened.
She called a national group that certifies cuddlers. It promptly decertified the cuddler, Susanne Woodward, for breaking its code of conduct.
Finally, she filed a complaint with the state board that regulates massage because the cuddler is also a massage therapist. It's illegal for massage therapists to engage in sexual activity with clients.
But Woodward's attorney, Flynn Carey, argued before the Arizona State Board of Massage Therapy that cuddling is beyond the board's regulatory authority because the woman was a cuddle client, not a massage client.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 16 minutes later[^][v]#1,030,817
Who could have possibly seen this type of thing coming when the Cuddling for pay thing started?
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 10 minutes later, 26 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,030,824
I always assumed cuddling therapy was for people who wanted to get laid but didn't want the stigma of getting an escort. Apparently, allegedly, this kind of thing isn't supposed to happen.
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,030,850
How was she not able to get the nipple out of her mouth for five minutes?
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 17 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,030,859
how'd the nip even pop out right into a mouth like that
terri !RwordOooFE joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,030,861
@1,030,850 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
that's what I was thinkin
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 6 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,030,865
@previous (terri !RwordOooFE)
I feel like it's one of those things where she went along with it, but then said that the cuddler used the power dynamic to take advantage. Which is kind of crazy to me
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terri !RwordOooFE replied with this 6 years ago, 43 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,030,867
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
yeah you think she's straight and felt guilty homophobe style?
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 6 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,030,868