Cuddling and Spooning Other Men

Abstract

In 2013, I interviewed Stuart, a first year heterosexual undergraduate, and asked him about sleeping in the same bed with his friends. “I do it all the time,” he told me. I inquired as to how often “all the time” was. “Two to three nights a week,” he said. Throughout the course of the interview, Stuart told me who he cuddles in bed with, and why. I asked him about the mechanics of what happens in bed, and the meanings associated with sleeping together. It is here that Stuart told me that he even cuddles in bed with guys, immediately after “fucking a girl.”