"Portland's professional cuddler calls it quits"
"Cuddle Up To Me" opened in 2013 as a house call service for platonic cuddling, but after 9 years and thousands of sessions later, Samantha
Hess is calling it quits."
""Cuddle Up To Me" first started as a house call, outpatient type of
service.
"I would go to people's homes, movie theaters and lots of park
sessions. People are not scary or dangerous that reach out for this
type of service. I've never once had to end a session early. People
are very kind and respectful," Hess said. "People have never had the opportunity to go see a movie with someone that wasn't their family
and it's really nice to have that opportunity to snuggle up next to
someone and watch a movie."
Within a year, she realized the demand was greater than what she could
do by herself. She opened her first storefront office in 2014, hired employees and trained them in the art of cuddling using a training
program she created herself.
Hess' unique business idea caught national headlines almost
immediately and it even caught the eye of "America's Got Talent"
producers. She flew out for an audition where she cuddled up with host
Nick Cannon on stage and then was brought back and cuddled with guest
judge Neil Patrick Harris before getting four X's and not moving on.
"I love that this work is silly. I like to think of this as
inner-child work," Hess said.
Hess, a self-described extrovert, was loving her work. Then the
pandemic hit.
"It destroyed my world when the pandemic hit," Hess said of the
isolation and lack of touch she was able to give or receive.
As a way to connect with her clients, she created a virtual eye-gazing
video. Hess met outdoors, seated apart at a park, then moved indoors
with windows open as the restrictions began to lift.
Her business downsized from a 4,000 square foot retail space to a
single room office that was less than 100 square feet.
After more than 3,200 sessions that ranged anywhere from 30 minutes to
five hours and cost anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars an hour, Hess
packed up her small office and shut down "Cuddle Up To Me.""
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-professional-cuddler-quits/283-bb65d1b8-5394-4211-9d3a-d6913e662847
Technobarbarian wrote:
"Portland's professional cuddler calls it quits"
"Cuddle Up To Me" opened in 2013 as a house call service for platonic
cuddling, but after 9 years and thousands of sessions later, Samantha
Hess is calling it quits."
""Cuddle Up To Me" first started as a house call, outpatient type of
service.
"I would go to people's homes, movie theaters and lots of park
sessions. People are not scary or dangerous that reach out for this
type of service. I've never once had to end a session early. People
are very kind and respectful," Hess said. "People have never had the
opportunity to go see a movie with someone that wasn't their family
and it's really nice to have that opportunity to snuggle up next to
someone and watch a movie."
Within a year, she realized the demand was greater than what she could
do by herself. She opened her first storefront office in 2014, hired
employees and trained them in the art of cuddling using a training
program she created herself.
Hess' unique business idea caught national headlines almost
immediately and it even caught the eye of "America's Got Talent"
producers. She flew out for an audition where she cuddled up with host
Nick Cannon on stage and then was brought back and cuddled with guest
judge Neil Patrick Harris before getting four X's and not moving on.
"I love that this work is silly. I like to think of this as
inner-child work," Hess said.
Hess, a self-described extrovert, was loving her work. Then the
pandemic hit.
"It destroyed my world when the pandemic hit," Hess said of the
isolation and lack of touch she was able to give or receive.
As a way to connect with her clients, she created a virtual eye-gazing
video. Hess met outdoors, seated apart at a park, then moved indoors
with windows open as the restrictions began to lift.
Her business downsized from a 4,000 square foot retail space to a
single room office that was less than 100 square feet.
After more than 3,200 sessions that ranged anywhere from 30 minutes to
five hours and cost anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars an hour, Hess
packed up her small office and shut down "Cuddle Up To Me.""
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-professional-cuddler-quits/283-bb65d1b8-5394-4211-9d3a-d6913e662847
Well damn. At the end of the day going forward, I literally can't
believe I hadn't heard of something that's been around for 9 years. Now
I'll probably go to my grave without ever having a professional cuddle.
If you're going to continue to be the RORT Designated News Aggregator,
you should reorient and try to be more timely going forward, because as
you can see, the significance of the passage of time is significant.
"Portland's professional cuddler calls it quits"
"Cuddle Up To Me" opened in 2013 as a house call service for platonic cuddling, but after 9 years and thousands of sessions later, Samantha
Hess is calling it quits."
""Cuddle Up To Me" first started as a house call, outpatient type of
service.
"I would go to people's homes, movie theaters and lots of park sessions. People are not scary or dangerous that reach out for this type of
service. I've never once had to end a session early. People are very
kind and respectful," Hess said. "People have never had the opportunity
to go see a movie with someone that wasn't their family and it's really
nice to have that opportunity to snuggle up next to someone and watch a movie."
Within a year, she realized the demand was greater than what she could
do by herself. She opened her first storefront office in 2014, hired employees and trained them in the art of cuddling using a training
program she created herself.
Hess' unique business idea caught national headlines almost immediately
and it even caught the eye of "America's Got Talent" producers. She flew
out for an audition where she cuddled up with host Nick Cannon on stage
and then was brought back and cuddled with guest judge Neil Patrick
Harris before getting four X's and not moving on.
"I love that this work is silly. I like to think of this as inner-child work," Hess said.
Hess, a self-described extrovert, was loving her work. Then the pandemic
hit.
"It destroyed my world when the pandemic hit," Hess said of the
isolation and lack of touch she was able to give or receive.
As a way to connect with her clients, she created a virtual eye-gazing
video. Hess met outdoors, seated apart at a park, then moved indoors
with windows open as the restrictions began to lift.
Her business downsized from a 4,000 square foot retail space to a single
room office that was less than 100 square feet.
After more than 3,200 sessions that ranged anywhere from 30 minutes to
five hours and cost anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars an hour, Hess packed
up her small office and shut down "Cuddle Up To Me.""
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-professional-cuddler-quits/283-bb65d1b8-5394-4211-9d3a-d6913e662847
TB
On Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 12:06:16 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
"Portland's professional cuddler calls it quits"
"Cuddle Up To Me" opened in 2013 as a house call service for platonic
cuddling, but after 9 years and thousands of sessions later, Samantha
Hess is calling it quits."
""Cuddle Up To Me" first started as a house call, outpatient type of
service.
"I would go to people's homes, movie theaters and lots of park sessions.
People are not scary or dangerous that reach out for this type of
service. I've never once had to end a session early. People are very
kind and respectful," Hess said. "People have never had the opportunity
to go see a movie with someone that wasn't their family and it's really
nice to have that opportunity to snuggle up next to someone and watch a
movie."
Within a year, she realized the demand was greater than what she could
do by herself. She opened her first storefront office in 2014, hired
employees and trained them in the art of cuddling using a training
program she created herself.
Hess' unique business idea caught national headlines almost immediately
and it even caught the eye of "America's Got Talent" producers. She flew
out for an audition where she cuddled up with host Nick Cannon on stage
and then was brought back and cuddled with guest judge Neil Patrick
Harris before getting four X's and not moving on.
"I love that this work is silly. I like to think of this as inner-child
work," Hess said.
Hess, a self-described extrovert, was loving her work. Then the pandemic
hit.
"It destroyed my world when the pandemic hit," Hess said of the
isolation and lack of touch she was able to give or receive.
As a way to connect with her clients, she created a virtual eye-gazing
video. Hess met outdoors, seated apart at a park, then moved indoors
with windows open as the restrictions began to lift.
Her business downsized from a 4,000 square foot retail space to a single
room office that was less than 100 square feet.
After more than 3,200 sessions that ranged anywhere from 30 minutes to
five hours and cost anywhere from 80 to 100 dollars an hour, Hess packed
up her small office and shut down "Cuddle Up To Me.""
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-professional-cuddler-quits/283-bb65d1b8-5394-4211-9d3a-d6913e662847
TB
Ha! It looks to me that a professional cuddler, is just one more ugly incantation of harlotry! Of course, what should one expect out of Portland, where even a jay bird nekkid protestor displays her body, just to, "stick it to the Man"....
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