Because All of America Needs to Be Held: 'Cuddle Parties'

Blame it on increasing alienation due to IM's, eHarmony, and your Facebook profile (whatever), but Americans are apparently becoming more and more public about a little something called "cuddle parties."

A cuddle party is different from, say, when a guy tells you "he just wants to cuddle," etc. They're not sexual. And they're catching on like wildfire! At least according to this one CBS Philly-area report. (Wow, the video will make you go blind -- in that hands-off-the-privates kind of way.)

But see, we here at MTV News are totally ahead of the cultural curve. For reals. Last year we reported on the growing online "asexual" community -- many of whom are healthy 20-somethings who claim they simply have no desire for sexual intercourse. And plenty of them throw down at cuddle parties all the time! There's even such a thing, we were told, as a "cuddle slut."

Check out the clip above, and tell us what you think...