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wispfox ([personal profile] wispfox) wrote2015-03-26 03:49 pm
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"Cuddling someone into submission"

Why might one be doing this? Discuss!

[edit: Huh, ok. I was being silly with that question, and got no silly answers! Admittedly, I am an excellent example of someone who often _needs_ to be cuddled into submission!]

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2015-03-26 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Because said someone is burning all her energy trying to flail at the world, and she needs help recohering?

Also done with scared cats / kids. Not entirely sure it's "submission" but it's similar...
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[personal profile] dsrtao 2015-03-26 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)

Not so much submission as ... A physical reminder of comfort and alliance and parental presence when words can't be processed.

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2015-03-26 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Usually, it's a response to someone who is in sensory overload, who needs a more simplified sensory experience.

It is among the suggested techniques for dealing with children, dogs, cats, and anybody else whose emotional/sensory regulation abilities are either underdeveloped or currently impaired. Such as, y'know, just about everybody sometimes.
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[personal profile] blk 2015-03-27 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
When I hear "cuddled into submission" I think of this:

http://www.robot-hugs.com/cuddle/

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2015-03-27 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Yes, indeed. :)

[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2015-03-27 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And my mind went to this one:

http://www.robot-hugs.com/soothe/

*robot hugs fistbumb*

[identity profile] hfcougar.livejournal.com 2015-04-02 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)

I think of hug machines, only with a real live person doing the hugging. Basically forced soothing of someone who has lost the ability to self-soothe. Though the "into submission" part rubs me wrong, I have to consciously remind myself that phrasing is (I hope) in jest.

[identity profile] wispfox.livejournal.com 2015-04-02 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*wry* The entire thing was meant in jest! I had not expected serious replies. :)

[identity profile] hfcougar.livejournal.com 2015-04-02 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)

I think I know too many sex geeks and BDSM enthusiasts... a person might literally want to cuddle someone into submission! (with previous negotiation and a safeword)