{"id":5149,"date":"2013-12-09T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5149"},"modified":"2013-12-15T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T20:48:54","slug":"i-dont-know-any-man-who-wants-to-just-snuggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/09\/i-dont-know-any-man-who-wants-to-just-snuggle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don\u2019t know any man who wants to just snuggle.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/business-selling-snuggles-raises-suspicion-in-madison-wis\/2013\/12\/08\/08c8e098-605c-11e3-94ad-004fefa61ee6_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Washington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Business selling snuggles raises suspicion in Madison, Wis.<\/h1>\n<h3>By\u00a0Todd Richmond<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_404h\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/12\/09\/National-Politics\/Images\/Snuggle_House-0350a-5494.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. \u2014 Wisconsin\u2019s ultra-liberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to naked bike rides. But city officials say a business is pushing even Madison\u2019s boundaries by offering, of all things, hugs.<\/p>\n<p>For $60, customers at the Snuggle House can spend an hour hugging, cuddling and spooning with professional snugglers.<\/p>\n<p>Snugglers contend that touching helps relieve stress. But Madison officials suspect that the business is a front for prostitution and, if it\u2019s not, fear that snuggling could lead to sexual assault. Not buying the message that the business is all warm and fuzzy, police have talked openly about conducting a sting operation, and city lawyers are drafting a new ordinance to regulate snuggling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way that [sexual assault] will not happen,\u201d Assistant City Attorney Jennifer Zilavy said. \u201cNo offense to men, but I don\u2019t know any man who wants to just snuggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/business-selling-snuggles-raises-suspicion-in-madison-wis\/2013\/12\/08\/08c8e098-605c-11e3-94ad-004fefa61ee6_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post Business selling snuggles raises suspicion in Madison, Wis. By\u00a0Todd Richmond MADISON, Wis. \u2014 Wisconsin\u2019s ultra-liberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to naked bike rides. But city officials say a business is pushing even Madison\u2019s boundaries by offering, of all things, hugs. For $60, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}