ok the dangerous teenage hug epidemic - another important new york times trend piece

While social mores may shift rapidly in our modern "hookup culture," etiquette dictates that hugging is the preferred method of greeting at a "rainbow party"

At a more formal "pharm party," however, you should simply introduce yourself via text

actually laurel I classify my friends as the drinkies, the drinkers, and the drunks

drunks are a very special and rarefied breed

tbh i find it genuinely disturbing that ANYBODY is getting worked up about hugging

what if yr having a particularly intense hug w/someone you kinda "like"

then they can usually tell, if you're a dude

(boner)

this is why dudes never hugged in jersey

hug-n-tug

lb I find it disturbing that you are disturbed

- teenage hugidemic - give me some space plz

haha yeah, the first thing in my head when reading this story was that there are surely

(a) a group of popular kids whose hugging is most noticed by staff/adults,
(b) a second tier of less-popular kids whose hugging rarely overlaps with the popular huggers, and
(c) a bunch of kids who NEVER GET HUGGED BY ANYONE

http://www.cnn.com/US/9802/13/hugging.ban/

^1998

a good reporter would have pulled a quote from that last group, because I would find it super-informative as a reader to see a news story containing genuine teenage sneering about this issue, and in general about who thinks they're so cool with their stupid hugging but really they're just dumb jerks

aw

: /

maybe you need a hug

― dulce est desipere in loco (Euler), Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:44 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they are all on e

http://www.mystcommunity.com/board/style_emoticons/b/hug.gif

they are all on e

― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:24 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this happened to me in hs

hug ep-E-demic

someone please update the nyt via comment

If my junior high students represent the next shock troops of the hug-a-bunch offensive, then it will peter out. btw, let's hope there is never a peter-out offensive.

there was a few months during my sophomore year of high school that i was all about hugging people, including acquaintances i wasn't even that close with. of course there was no trend at the time so it was really just inappropriate. :\

it all ended when my older bro yelled at me to stop hugging people in our (same) chemistry class and i was overcome with shame. :( :( :(

i won the chemistry award that year but i'm pretty sure it was not for all the hugging i did.

tell me he was wearing protective goggles at the time

it's possible because i think i was hugging my lab partner at the time

there was a few months during my sophomore year of high school that i was all about hugging people, including acquaintances i wasn't even that close with. of course there was no trend at the time so it was really just inappropriate. :\

^^^ my best friend in HS went through a very long phase w/this

i've been hanging out with a bunch of mfa grad students and they are huggy as fuck

Important: which discipline?

i met my girlfriend's friend's boyfriend the other week--he goodbye-hugged me after coffee. i was a little surprised tbh.

were you all http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/5673/fgulls527.gif

I am huggy if you're already a friend and if I really like you. What gets me if when people I've met once and don't really know at all start hugging me goodbye and stuff. I'm not so into that. We just met - we're not at the hugging stage yet!

i met my girlfriend's friend's boyfriend the other week--he goodbye-hugged me after coffee. i was a little surprised tbh.

― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Thursday, May 28, 2009 3:42 PM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

YES - EXACTLY!!

at what duration does a *hug* become a *cuddle*

Don't cuddles have more hand action?

10 seconds

Around the 7 to 8 second mark, I'd say.

after the expiration of the "huggle" zone

cuddles are generally horizontal, or at least sitting down.

i think its when the person starts to rub your back or really any hand/arm mvmnt at all once the hug has been formed

I am huggy if you're already a friend and if I really like you. What gets me if when people I've met once and don't really know at all start hugging me goodbye and stuff. I'm not so into that. We just met - we're not at the hugging stage yet!

yeah i guess it's a gray area--like i hugged the gf's f (who i've met a bunch of times) but since i just met this guy he's more in the handshake zone. and he's an acquaintance's sig other--who knows if i'm ever gonna see him again?

Important: which discipline?

mostly poets (obv), some writers

yeah a cuddle is a moving hug

it goes hug - huggle - cuddle - snuggle - "hooking up"

add motion and they are, respectively, hug - feeling up - heavy petting - grope - dry hump

wait, those are backward

hug - feeling up - groping - (something) - dry humping

lol

"grinding on" is somewhere in there

x-post to CAD - Yeah, exactly. You just met and had coffee. It wasn't as if you had some marathon bonding session or went through something traumatic together. In my mind that's definitely still handshake zone.

not yet, but trying

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