Cuddle Party

[ysabetwordsmith]

Everyone needs contact comfort sometimes.  Not everyone has ample opportunities for this in facetime.  So here is a chance for a cuddle party in cyberspace.  Virtual cuddling can help people feel better.

We have a cuddle room that comes with fort cushions, fort frames, sheets for draping, and a weighted blanket.  It has a basket of grooming brushes, hairbrushes, and styling combs.  A bin holds textured pillows. There is a big basket of craft supplies along with art markers, coloring pages, and blank paper.  The kitchen has a popcorn machine. Labels are available to mark dietary needs, recipe ingredients, and level of spiciness. Here is the bathroom, open to everyone.  There is a lawn tent and an outdoor hot tub. Bathers should post a sign for nude or clothed activity.  Come snuggle up!

Comments

Re: Does virtual touch make you feel better?

[dreamwriteremmy]

Yup. It satisfies some of our companionship/safetouch needs. We also like the fact that nonmeatspace means (a) the cuddle party lasts until people stop tagging and (b) we can choose our presentation (sometimes we come as body-persona with headmates sharing the space like we do in some meatspace groups and other times as separate entities.) That freedom of expressions makes me feel like we're collectively bringing a little bit of the worlds you're creating to realspace even though its virtual (it's still real).

Re: Does virtual touch make you feel better?

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Yup. It satisfies some of our companionship/safetouch needs. We also like the fact that nonmeatspace means (a) the cuddle party lasts until people stop tagging <<

Yay! These are good things.

>> (b) we can choose our presentation (sometimes we come as body-persona with headmates sharing the space like we do in some meatspace groups and other times as separate entities.) <<

I find that this feature enables people to snuggle souls in cyberspace, in ways that are difficult to achieve in meatspace, because for some people they meat they are stuck inside really gets in the way of self-expression. So cyberspace has some really valuable advantages.

>> That freedom of expressions makes me feel like we're collectively bringing a little bit of the worlds you're creating to realspace even though its virtual (it's still real). <<

I find that cyberspace is as real as people make it. I can meet people here, create things, buy and sell stuff -- and it all works better for me than meatspace. Anything that makes a difference is real, just not all the same dimension. The top of a cube is no less real than the side, even though they're not in the same place.