I recently saw a news story about a new business where a group of women have deemed themselves “Professional Cuddlers” for hire. These cuddlers are paid by the hour to visit the homes of men who pay for cuddling – and nothing more (according to the cuddlers).

As the news report showed video of the cuddlers laying in bed with men, all engaged in varying degrees of fully-clothed cuddlery (I suppose that’s the professional word for it), it occurred to me that the world’s most dangerous job is no longer a deck hand on a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea. Evidently these service industry pioneers are unfamiliar with the meaning of the old saying ‘spooning always leads to forking.’