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COMM: Anna Nathan Shekory and Tom Fortis Mayor
are the cuddle couple. Together the pair run the cuddle workshop - London's foremost cuddle
club.
The class is intended to offer a safe space
for people to indulge in non *** touching, and attendees are even coached in politely
turning down a cuddle if they feel in any way uncomfortable.
00:26 Woman: Would you like the share a cuddle?
Man: No thank you.
COMM: Today, Anna and Tom are running a class
in leafy West Hempstead.
Anna: So I would like you now to visualize
yourself leaving the workshop today, having fulfilled all of the wants that you had from
today.
COMM: Since she set up the class, Anna has
gone to great lengths to learn about the body's biological response to cuddling.
Anna: Oxytocine is a chemical that floods
your body and it provides feelings of connection of love and it's just produced in abundance
when you have prolonged cuddles with someone or a group of people.
01:06 Man: Before the workshop I was feeling a little
bit nervous, a little bit anxious, not really knowing what I got myself in for. Those feelings
disappeared very, very quickly after we started.
COMM: Anna has plans to expand her cuddle
empire by setting up cuddle workshops across the country.
Anna: I'm really hoping that the workshops
manage to make a difference in culture as well, in British culture, so that it can become
more cuddly as a nation.