By Cherysh Madeira
It’s a cold December night and your blanket and hot cocoa just aren’t keeping you warm enough. So you shiver under your blanket and wish you had a cuddle buddy. Well they can do more than just chase away Jack Frost’s chilly wind, they can improve your health in several ways! Benefits range from simple things like feeling happier to amazing things like healing wounds faster and reduces your risks of getting a heart disease! An entry from the goodmenproject.com says that cuddling has mainly five health effects: lowering blood pressure, relieveing pain and stress, reducing social anxiety, lowering levels of cortisol, and protecting your body against inflammation. Shocking, isn’t it, that cuddling can be more than just a simple way to show love and to keep warm.
It is commonly known that cuddling can release the “feel-good” hormones called oxytocin and dopamine but what you probably don’t know is that oxytocin can give you a more positive outlook and helps to reduce social anxiety by creating an optimistic look on meeting and connecting with new people. Even when it’s reducing your levels of cortisol, cuddling keeps you healthy by regulating your weight and keeping your stress down.
Japan takes it further by having you pay for these benefits! In Tokyo, Japan there is something called a Snuggery. It’s a lot like a love hotel where you pay by increments as low as by-the-hour to sleep and have one of their lovely attendants cuddle with you while you doze. The rules are simple yet strict. You must be completely clothed at all times and there is absolutely no touching allowed that makes either party uncomfortable. If the trip to Tokyo is too far you can actually pay to have someone to come to your house and cuddle with you with a simple google search. Most home-visit cuddlers are independent and do not work for any company. The cost may skyrocket sometime in the future just because of it’s pure popularity and the small amount of people who are actually willing to travel from place to place to cuddle with you.
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It’s a cold December night and your blanket and hot cocoa just aren’t keeping you warm enough. So you shiver under your blanket and wish you had a cuddle buddy. Well they can do more than just chase away Jack Frost’s chilly wind, they can improve your health in several ways! Benefits range from simple things like feeling happier to amazing things like healing wounds faster and reduces your risks of getting a heart disease! An entry from the goodmenproject.com says that cuddling has mainly five health effects: lowering blood pressure, relieveing pain and stress, reducing social anxiety, lowering levels of cortisol, and protecting your body against inflammation. Shocking, isn’t it, that cuddling can be more than just a simple way to show love and to keep warm.
It is commonly known that cuddling can release the “feel-good” hormones called oxytocin and dopamine but what you probably don’t know is that oxytocin can give you a more positive outlook and helps to reduce social anxiety by creating an optimistic look on meeting and connecting with new people. Even when it’s reducing your levels of cortisol, cuddling keeps you healthy by regulating your weight and keeping your stress down.
Japan takes it further by having you pay for these benefits! In Tokyo, Japan there is something called a Snuggery. It’s a lot like a love hotel where you pay by increments as low as by-the-hour to sleep and have one of their lovely attendants cuddle with you while you doze. The rules are simple yet strict. You must be completely clothed at all times and there is absolutely no touching allowed that makes either party uncomfortable. If the trip to Tokyo is too far you can actually pay to have someone to come to your house and cuddle with you with a simple google search. Most home-visit cuddlers are independent and do not work for any company. The cost may skyrocket sometime in the future just because of it’s pure popularity and the small amount of people who are actually willing to travel from place to place to cuddle with you.
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