Any other creative ideas from newbies who just got active on the forum?
Okay, here’s what comes off the top of my mind. Watching someone trying to connect with another cuddler through a website, showing how long it takes, how it is a process. Then, following them to their first cuddle experience and get their honest reactions afterwards. Cover the balance of satisfying skin hunger without accidentally getting romantic. Showing what has to happen if one person develops emotions for the other. It’s a mental struggle to separate romantic love, sex, and physical contact. For me, in life, I’ve learned that touch is very sexual. It’s going to take some work for me to uncouple the two. It would be good if the film was honest about this dynamic and how challenging it can be, but also why it’s worthwhile. And that would be because physical contact without the pressures and worries that come with sex can be a very unique and special thing.
I think if you can highlight the theme that how in many cultures it's a taboo. Especially Asian, East Asian, middle eastern and African and compare it with US and EU, it can provide an international prospective! Good luck
The play is called The Found Dog Ribbon Dance by Dominic Finochiaro.
The story revolves around Norma (Amanda Saunders), a professional cuddler who services folks in need of affection, touch and reassurance and who customizes her sessions — you can sleep or remain awake, engage in conversation or be silent, for example — to their particular predilections. Though a genuinely caring person who appears good at her job, Norma herself is unattached, and her venture into the dating game with local barista Norm (Steven Strobel) is a rocky one, due mostly to his neuroses but also due to her own skittishness when it comes to relationships. Norma does, however, form an attachment to a dog (Dan Hagan, wearing a T-shirt that reads DOG) that she found on the street. She advertises, unsuccessfully, to find its owners; as time goes on, her bond with the animal evolves. A couple of people show up to claim the dog, but when it’s obvious he doesn’t know them, Norma battles them away and he remains with her. Between Norma’s clients and the would-be animal owners, her studio is host to a parade of offbeat or just plain disturbed characters — an insulting and pugnacious youth (Gabriel Notarangelo), a silent elderly man (Gregory Itzin), a young woman whose arms are covered with self-inflicted wounds (Clarissa Thibeaux). One very needy client (Eric Gutierrez) mistakes her professional tenderness for an invitation to sexual intimacy, and she has to fight him off. Norma does her best to handle it all with dignity, compassion and aplomb, but these experiences are wearing on her, and are perhaps why the dog becomes important in her life.
@Tallmann , @ivlegend , @Fredrick_Hugs , thanks for the inputs! Very helpful every line of input matters for making up a great story line!