According to NY Daily News, a Manhattan resident named Ali C. is “New York City’s first professional cuddler”—working out of her Financial District apartment, she snuggles up with strangers for US$80 an hour.
Launching her unconventional business—“Cuddle U NYC”—in November last year, she has already had more than 30 clients, who are all male except for one female.
Her “cuddle therapy” is supposedly a “very healing” experience that generates positive emotions in her clients—tears are also a common outcome of these sessions.
Find out more about Ali’s cuddling services here—she even has a US$200 movie and cuddle package.
Would you pay to be cuddled?
[via New York Daily News, images by Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News]