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Ladies: Do your male friends ever lay their heads on your chest?

Asked by Trafficlights (30points) October 21st, 2009

Have you had the experience of male friends resting their face or head on your chest? Do you feel it’s a normal activity, in the sense of a affectionate gesture (for example if the two of you are hanging out, watching movies or engaged in some other sort of mellow activity), or do you think it’s a violation of personal space and implied platonic “boundaries”? Or possibly somewhere in between? What do you think of the term “Nature’s Pillows”? I’d like to stress that the man is not in anyway trying to “cop a feel” or derive sexual pleasure. Thoughts?

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drdoombot's avatar

Damn, if I could get away with that, I’d be doing it all the time!

shego's avatar

I have some knockers, and If I am comfortable with the person sure I let them rest their head there, I do cause I can’t get my head on the table while sitting down.
But If I am not comfortable with the person, then my boundaries have been broken and all hell breaks loose.

Roory's avatar

When will men get that women are not just for resting and pleasure !!
Anyways, I would never let any person ‘rest’ publicly on me, even my boyfriend, somehow i would feel degraded and it would look awfully odd infront if people, plus I would not take my body parts to be called Nature’s Pillows.

cyn's avatar

If in no way I like him as a boyfriend and stuff, then It’s invasion of my personal space.

Allie's avatar

A very close friend of mine used to do this. We were good friends.. and he was gay. I’m not sure that’s the same as a straight friend doing this. I’ve let my boyfriends lay their head on my chest, too. I like to lay my head on their chest – it seems pretty similar to me.
The “nature pillows” name I’m not so sure about.

Tink's avatar

Depends if I trust him enough to be that close to him if he was just a “friend”, but I don’t mind if it was my boyfriend.

fundevogel's avatar

“Nature’s pillows” is up their with “mammaries” and “womyn” and all the other revolting terms I wouldn’t want applied to me. Call ‘em tits.

shego's avatar

Try running up the stairs. I thought I was gonna give myself a black eye.
@fundevogel I have never understood why some think “Natures Pillows” revolting. I have always used mine as pillows, and called them pillows. Whenever my friends bring their babies over, the babies use them as pillows, and fall asleep very easily.

augustlan's avatar

One of my best friends does that. He’s gay, but will sometimes even grab ‘em and say “I love your pillows”.

Trafficlights's avatar

@johnpowell I didn’t understand your link until just a few secs ago. Believe it or not I simply picked the two words randomly :) I don’t care for the term “headlights” in reference to breasts.

MrItty's avatar

I have a lot of platonic female friends. More than I have male friends actually. I would never consider resting my head on their chests. Ever. Even the ones that I’m comfortable enough to “cuddle” with on occasion on the couch. For platonic friendships, breasts are a no-contact zone.

hearkat's avatar

Resting one’s head on another’s chest is very comforting as it is remeniscent of being a child in a parent’s arms. I have allowed romantic partners to rest their heads there, and I have called them “nature’s pillows” (and on other occasions, I’ve called them “Nature’s PFDs [personal floatation devices]). If one of my platonic friends (gay or straight) were in need of comforting, I’d let them rest their head there. Nurturing comes more naturally to some than others, regardless of gender or sexual preferences.

Trafficlights's avatar

@hearkat My thoughts exactly! Well said.

MrItty's avatar

While I can understand @hearkat‘s point of view, if I was in need of comforting, I wouldn’t think to put my head on a female friend’s chest. Her shoulder, maybe.

Facade's avatar

If I had males friends and they did that, they’d be in serious hot water with me. Only my man can do that for obvious reasons.

casheroo's avatar

He’d have to be gay for me to feel comfortable with that situation…and also a good good friend.
I’ve never had a guy find it appropriate to just lay his head on them unless we were together.

Psychedelic_Zebra's avatar

@Facade damn, another platonic fantasy of mine bites the dust. j/k };^P

Sarcasm's avatar

Let the record show that I’d love to rest my head upon “nature’s pillows” (Let the record also show I’ve never heard that term), but would never have the balls of steel to just do that.

Simone_De_Beauvoir's avatar

Generally speaking, I joke sometimes and say ‘aww, c’mere, rest on my breast’ and it does make everyone feel better.

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