What does it mean when someone hugs you?

Pre-College Topics High School Cafe
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<p>What about when they refer to you as “dear,” or “honey?”</p>

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<p>A. Parents, or people close to you that use terms of endearment.</p>

<p>B. Peer who might be interested in you.</p>

<p>C. Crazy.</p>

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<p>Side note on point A - Girls often use the term with their friends.</p>

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<p>i huge my friends usually when i havent seen them for a while…or if we’re meeting up outside of school i hug everyone…</p>

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<p>I hug everybody. All the time.
I don’t have to be interested in someone to hug him/her.
And I don’t think I’m crazy.</p>

<p>Hugs are good!</p>

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<p>It’s not really who you hug, more how you hug em</p>

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<p>girls hug dudes all the time. its semi-flirting</p>

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<p>It depends on the situation:
A. You haven’t seen someone in a long time and you’re happy to see him/her
B. You’re at a semi-formal dance and all the girls walk around hugging each other, even the girls they hate, saying “OMGILOVEYOURDRESSILOVEYOURHAIRYOURESOGORGEOUSOMG”
C. You had a very good or very bad day and needed a hug</p>

<p>Personally, I’m not a huggable person. At all. I flinch when someone tries to give me a hug, ESPECIALLY when it’s unexpected (i.e. you meet someone, go in for a handshake, and they give you a great big bear hug).</p>

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<p>I may be biased though… I feel like hugging is just the norm here. My school is known for it: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/style/28hugs.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/style/28hugs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>they want to have your babies</p>

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<p>I think that it’s normal. </p>

<p>^^Thanks for the link. The elaboration of the various types of hugs was intriguing.</p>

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<p>Despite the fact that I’m not going to hug another dude, I don’t see anything sexual about it. I hug female friends sometimes.</p>

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<p>And it doesn’t make you feel slutty?</p>

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<p>^Why would that be slutty?</p>

<p>I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it was a joke. Most of the people I know that hug a lot are actually the opposite of slutty, if such a thing exists.</p>

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<p>Slutty? Weird question.</p>

<p>I tend to act rather effeminately I guess…</p>

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It would make sense if the genders were reversed, thus revealing the underlying double standard.</p>

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<p>Friends hug each other a lot at my school, however the more stoic ones do not hug.</p>

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<p>interesting article</p>

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<p>Indeed. It’s kind of strange that my school made the bottom front cover for the NY-Times on hugging… honestly. Don’t they have better things to report? haha</p>