I've been saving this for the last minute to announce it (because I announced it too early last year and it fell through), but is in Toronto and will be at BMEfest!
So we were having lunch today and the women sitting across from us were talking about some Eastern mysticism class they were at. Typical middle aged white women with one Indian friend that have found whatever weird village Hinduism variant is hip this week, taught by some guy who's actually just a spiritual gigalo… I'll try and repeat the conversation roughly as it happened:
Woman One: After our last spiritual teachings, I asked swami if I could give him a hug, and he told me it was allowed, but only if it was not a penetrating hug. So I just gave him a little hug. He didn't seem to mind that much, but I sensed it made him somewhat uncomfortable.Woman Two: That's strange, if he's a spiritual teacher, shouldn't he be giving lots of hugs?
Woman Three: Swami lets me hug him, but he doesn't let the other students. But I've gone to the class a lot. I told him I was going to quit but he wouldn't give me a refund so now I get hugs. I love yoga.
Woman Two: I'm a teacher, and our school does not allow hugging.
Woman One: Why is that?
Woman Two: When you let kids hug each other, it forms cliques. The kids that no one wants to hug feel bad, so we don't let any of them do it.
Woman Three: Oh, that makes sense.
I just wanted to be clear that if you want to hug people at BMEfest, assuming they are in on the plan, it's cool by me. Feel free to do plenty of it if you'd like. Penetrating hugs though, well, if that's what you're looking for, you're probably headed off to Pornfest right now.
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