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15 daysBecoming emotionally dependent on someone you pay for intimacy is an extremely precarious thing, not just for the client but also the seller.
Please do not give yourself or them the risk of being tempted by that.
Go to a community center instead, volunteer at an animal center, go to a soup kitchen, donate some clothes at a shelter.
All these places can give you a sense of belonging if you are seeking a genuine connection, don’t worry about being desperate, as long as you respect peoples boundaries it will get better with time.Tbf that’s not a hug, and that doesn’t solve the issue of wanting a hug.
- 14 days
You’re right that interactions are not hugs, but they create friendships with people with whom it is both socially acceptable and emotionally healthy to hug. If you don’t hug your friends, you’re missing out in life.
- 14 days
Hugs are important because of what they mean - care, support, belonging.
Paying someone to do it won’t solve it either. You can’t replace the work and time of building up trusting and caring relationships with money.
As OP said - work in a food shelter, talk to people, invest your time in them - and eventually it’ll work out, but not as payment.
They’re also important because physical touch is a need in and of itself. No matter what, in the end, we are still animals, with animalistic needs. You can’t just think or will yourself out of them
- 14 days
There’s a great documentary about a host club in Osaka, and how a lot of the customers are women who are also in the industry. Despite knowing how everything works they’re also basically starved for real human connection so they pay for it anyway.
- 15 days
Listening to sex workers, this is what the job can be for some of them at least.
And if you watch old French or Italian films, you’ll know sex work can be sub rosa juggling multiple generous boyfriends.
- 14 days
he should be looking for escorts then, they do non-sex things too, pay them to chat with the guys/gals, accompany them to functions or dinners.
- jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish15 days
Lemmy responses to comics always make things light hearted and humorous.
- darthsundhaft@piefed.socialEnglish15 days
Can’t say I haven’t fantasized about doing something like this before.
- 15 days
I love my wife. don’t think otherwise. our intimacy is just…nonexistent.
- 14 days
not too amazed, I’ve witnessed it myself in many other couples that I know.
- 14 days
I desperately need a hair cut but I’ve been touch starved long enough that I may just black out from the endorphin rush the moment some poor stylist touches my hair.
- 15 days
It changes the tone of the comic whether the background consists of damaged wall plaster or cum stains.
