@ubergigglefritz - I understand the point of making the options extremes, I just thought that between those 2 extremes, it would take an exceptionally touch deprived person to choose the latter (and it was an unrealistic option).
As someone who hires pros, it is a realistic scenario for me to have choose between doing a telecuddle with a pro I have physically cuddled before but who lives hours away from me or hire someone local for an in person, platonic cuddle.
@JohnR1972 of course it's rigged! For precisely the reasons @ubergigglefritz gave.
However, your alternative of a touchless friend or a low-risk stranger cuddle, is in some ways a more interesting proposition.
@SunsetSnuggles I will PM you.
I like @CuddleDuncan's rigged scenario. And honestly, I think I'd pick option two.
My father is a disgusting person in many ways, who abused me in many ways, and hates who I am with a passion so all-consuming that he refuses to even acknowledge my existence. I don't want him to touch me. I don't want him anywhere near me.
But—by the rules of the thought experiment—it's cuddling only, right? We can't do anything else; he can't do anything else? In that case, I'd take it. In a situation like that, I'd need the physical contact more than anything else.
And afterwards I could feel even better knowing he was forced to comfort someone he'd rather see dead. Suck it, Dad!
@DaringSprinter : oh my god you're killing me man. Like I know a lot of what you said was true. But the last line is fucking hilarious. as I was reading everything you're writing I knew it was going to lead up to something like that.
I can't stand reality, what makes you think I would like it virtually?
@hugo_stieglitz: Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.