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

Dan I would say "feeling up" is just that - feeling or lightly touching whereas "groping" sort of connotes more action. I think both could be used to describe above the waist action but that groping is def more involved.

Dutch Rudder, didn't they play the second stage at Lollapalooza one year?

Hugging isn't mentioned in the bible, so it's only logical that it's getting banned everywhere.

feeling up=you have permission
groping=you do not have permission

that's is IT
there is no way I'm bringing a child into THIS WORLD

x-post I think that one can grope with permission under certain circumstances.

(oops. sorry. http://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=embrace&qs_version=9 )

the ol' five finger hug

you do not have sufficient grope permissions to access this file

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
― nabisco, Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:19 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Amen.

I can only think of one condition and one instance under which hugging occurred between my peers in middle school and high school: when couples spent the entire lunch period in sloppy kisses and serious dry humping in the hall and my two female high school classmates who were outspoken about not being lovers (Sarah was a cheerleader and Buffy (I'm not making it up) was a basketball player). I had public speaking class w/ them and they hugged before and after every single class.

But yeh, hugs would have been sooo out of place in my schools.

pretty sure when i was in high school the theater kids and goth kids were the only ones hugging it up

maybe they got the idea from my so called life or something

ugh, my grandfather had a dutch rudder on his hand, it was really fuckin gross

Wait - now that I think of it, there were probably a couple drama kids who hugged. Ugh.

maybe they got the idea from my so called life or something

ha!

i like hugs!

nabisco xp: this article would have been better if it addressed hugging as leading to social stratification or if there are ethnic/racial issues or how it affects autistic kids. The hugging thing vs. the rise of autism spectrum diagnosis ... or even better, cases of hugging gone wrong. Hugging leading to stalking. Kids that hug wrong.

Kids that hug wrong.

the mind boggles

this article is completely perfect the way it is - btw i just read it like 10 mins ago

as i recall when i went to HS (early/mid 90s) this worked strictly along gender lines. girls hugged--usually each other, occasionally guys. guys never hugged one another, and rarely if ever initiated hugs with girls.

rosario speedwagon

dude

oh shit did you use that one already doh

lb I find it disturbing that you are disturbed

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Thursday, May 28, 2009 7:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why?

i recall this working pretty much as amtst described. my sister & her friends hugged, the guys never did unless it was some kind of flirtation initiated by the lady.

when does a cuddle become a snuggle, or vice versa?

thought they were synonymous.

handshakes are like hugs for your hands

hugs are like handshakes for your body

not sure where milkshakes fit into the equation

your penis

oh shit did you use that one already doh

no. i'm in awe!

let's leave your penis out of this

(that's what she said)

your penis

― the stanky leg

appropriate username?

oh in that case...

xp i thought that's what that song was about

more xposts

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

the dangerous teenage hug epidemic vs the cuddle puddle

i would hug my female friends in hs, only hugged male hs friends after we graduated.

At the end of a semester my evil improv/drama teacher who had made many of my friends miserable for months hugged me and it was traumatizing.

fwiw i don't see much (if any) evidence of this at my kid's middle school, yesterday AM this girl he love/hates came up and punched him 'hello'

guys i found something worse

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/nyregion/31clothesline.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

everybody hugs in my office, btw

kinda want a powerhug with r giant hands kelly (pictured above)

mounted on r kelly's hands: a kitchen wallclock, a small recently felled log and a finger mounted crystal decanter

Have I mentioned what a hug maniac my 15-yr-old brother is? He has his own style of hug, which he calls 'Cars0n hugs' after himself, which involve squeezing the fucking shit out of you for a good 10 seconds. He's so wicked affectionate, it is just crazy.

Last night he was telling me in his speech class, a student gave a speech about how some of his best friends got kidnapped, raped and murdered when they were in elementary school. "It was so SAD, I needed some hugs but hardly anyone would give me one." My hypothesis, that it was bcz people like breathing while being hugged, was wrong. It turns out he's doing an 'I'm creepy and weird' gambit lately where he breathes on people's necks ans stabs his arm to make blood squirt onto his notebooks. •_•

His peers don't find him especially huggable bcz of this.

I am not sure I understand what is happening there

I blame My Chemical Romance

<3 yr new nickname, crütz

I just saw these two people downtown

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3577087214_754c6920a7_o.jpg

In case you can't make out the signs, they say "FREE HUGS"