Party anyone?

Just when I think Americans can't get any weirder they go and out-do themselves ...

so sometime during the week I'm reading a magazine and found myself reading an article about cuddle parties. Yes, cuddle parties.
Apparently you pay money to go in a room with a bunch of strangers, lie on a floor and cuddle each other till the end of the session.
Before any of you get any ideas, there are ground rules laid down - no groping, not dry humping, and if you do anything that makes another person uncomfortable and they bring it to your attention then you have to stop. There is a chaperone to enforce said rules, and if you're caught breaking any then you're thrown out.
(PS if you guys get a little "aroused" that's ok, but you are not to act on it.)
Cuddling apparently involves hugging, footrubs, massages, stroking hair, etc.
Apparently it gives you the intimacy usually craved in relationships (predominantly by the female) without the sexual anxiety (...)

They also have other unusual parties such as silent parties, in which you're not to say anything or make a sound and all communication is to be done via writing.

and, I could not dream of leaving out the furry parties.
For those of you who watch CSI, yes they are real; for those of you who don't, a furry party is basically one in which the participants dress and act like the animal they most believe themselves to be (and by animal, humans aren't included in the list). and for the sexually freaky among them, they have fur piles which are like cuddle parties but without the rules. Mind you, all of this happens in costume.
These people also don't limit themselves to parties, they have whole conventions. An entire week/weekend devoted to skreeching, and sniffing and grooming.

Hey who knows, maybe we could consider one of these themes for our next Christmas lyme...
nah, I don't think so