The thing that freaks me out is, what is "wrong" with these people that they need to pay for human contact? Paying for sex, I understand. But for cuddling?
Hey now! I just said I'd consider it.
You've got a husband and a kid and I fucking hate bars -- people do a lot more with strangers in the name of human contact. Should I go to my Mom's and sit in her lap for a few days? Call an ex and mess with his head with the "I just want to be HELD" thing?
It's a very hippie thing, and that's the world I grew up in. It sounds like half the grown up parties I saw until I was seven minus the weed and gallon jugs of Gallo.
You have a big old touchy-feely bonding encounter session then you all hang out and talk and snuggle. It sounds like half the youth-group crap I did when I was a kid. It sounds like camp or the dorm. It sounds a LOT like the kitten-pile after the kitchen-of-porn in LA (and most of us, although having intermet, just actually met within the day).
I see invites to Cake parties, 'lovers of big women' parties, 'private' parties downtown and all that crap costs about thirty bucks too. And we'll just get shitfaced and yell 'woo hoo' and a bunch of the people will go fuck strangers. Feh. This way you talk a little and hang out before a bunch of the people pair off and go fuck.
I'd give it a shot, I might like it or not, I can see people not finding it personally appealing... but its not ALL that deranged.