It should be noted that according to the experiments of Harry Harlow, while monkeys raised by other monkeys love to snuggle, monkeys "raised" by fake mothers constructed of wire-frame or terrycloth grow up to hate being touched. That said, the ones provided with a terrycloth mother enjoyed "snuggling" with it, they just didn't like having other monkeys touch them. (Harlow was kind of a bastard—some of his isolation experiments are infamous today.)
edited 9th Jan '11 6:34:11 PM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something AwfulIt's not that I mind, but for some reason I maintain body heat better (probably because of my fat) so my friends create giant hugglefests with me in the middle all the time.
And when I see a dog, I will try to huggle it to death.
edited 9th Jan '11 9:33:51 PM by snowfoxofdeath
Warm hugs and morally questionable advice given here. Prosey Bitchfest

And cuddle...and provide copious amounts of huggles! XD
But seriously, what would drive a person to such an extreme that Cuteness Proximity is invoked? I highly doubt that it's always because said person wants to "protect" it.