I didn’t realize cuddling was a business until now. And apparently you can suck a nipple for 5 minutes and then complain about it too;
"In new age America, if you need emotional comfort, you can pay someone to cuddle you.
It’s legal and unregulated.
But where do you complain if a cuddling session goes too far?
A Phoenix woman says it happened to her in May when she visited an $80-a-session cuddle therapist and the session turned sexual. She wound up with the cuddler’s nipple in her mouth for five minutes.
She called police, who told her that nothing illegal had happened.
She called a national group that certifies cuddlers. It promptly decertified the cuddler, Susanne Woodward, for breaking its code of conduct.
Finally, she filed a complaint with the state board that regulates massage because the cuddler is also a massage therapist. It’s illegal for massage therapists to engage in sexual activity with clients.
But Woodward’s attorney, Flynn Carey, argued before the Arizona State Board of Massage Therapy that cuddling is beyond the board’s regulatory authority because the woman was a cuddle client, not a massage client.
Carey told the board that if they took jurisdiction of the matter, “you are actually going to be now the massage therapy board and the cuddle therapy board.”
The board found no violation of massage practice but ordered Woodward to separate her cuddling business from her massage business, including maintaining separate websites to avoid confusion.
The unusual complaint underscores the limits of state regulatory boards. The cuddling controversy also illustrates how one type of therapy may be regulated and licensed while another, newer concept – that also involves close body contact – is not."
