Is it weird to give lap pillows to your friends?

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  1. The Hamster Overlord

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    Nothing wrong with lap pillows. I used to give lap pillows to my friend too when I was a kid. Though touching other people hair is a no no for me. I don't know... Hair is just gross in general I think. At least to the touch
     
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    It used to be not the case back in my day just felt very strange since your friend head would be close to your crotch and i feel uncomfortable with anything that alive and moving close to my crotch.
    Just saying that when I'm in the army we used to dress each others because instructor would make us do laps if anything out of place with our uniform. So before we get in line we would check each other to fix anything that stood out.
     
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    I would lean on my friends and vice versa. hugs also welcome. but I'm a girl, so no fujobait.
    i like contact and pats. I'd like to lie on someone's lap and get patted.

    but really, imagining what you do to your friends irl makes me giggle
     
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    I don't know. It's pretty common between my brothers and cousins so hmm... I guess it really depends on the context?
    I might be fujo-baited in fiction but in reality, if it's something done between close friends or family I usually don't think too much about it.
     
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  5. Walter vi Britannia

    Walter vi Britannia Well-Known Member

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    It's reflexive!
    Since my cat lays on my lap all the time (even at this very moment as I'm typing this comment) I tend to always pet him since...you know, it's a cat!
     
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    yeah same
    this gives me flashback to a period of time when my friends used me as their lap pillow and i just patted their head like they were just a cat
     
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    AliceShiki 『Ms. Tree』『Magical Girl of Love and Justice』

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    I often laid down in the lap of my friends back in primary~

    Then I remember doing the same in elementary and the girl pushed me away while looking a bit freaked out, while I was confused by her reaction... Ever since then I don't think I've had any involvement with lap pillows.

    ... It's not something that seems particularly weird to me though, it's just something that stopped happening.
     
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    Anra7777 All powerful magic grammar hamster queen pirate.

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    I gave a lap pillow to the boy I had a crush on when I was 7 or 8. Otherwise, it’s never been common around me. I’ve never seen people outside of manga really give or receive lap pillows. Maybe there have been and I just haven’t noticed.
     
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    My friend used another guy's ass as a pillow and we sometimes lie down on the floor using each other's chest as a pillow while saying corny pickup lines with each other while cringing afterwards because that was pretty gay
    Doing that unironically makes your gay meter rise
     
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    seriously even up to highschool i do give a lap pillow to my fellow guy, though not to the point of caressing hair. it's pretty normal when we hang around doing school work doing lap pillow things. While getting teased by a fujoshi is pretty normal to me (everything you do to your guy friends is material for them, seriosly) they do that a lot. though not to the point of suddenly famous in school like you lol.
     
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    I would do the same as you. Uh I actually did so a lot in the past?

    Then again, I'm a girl and double standards says that you doing that with your guy friends as a guy will make us girls who are exposed to the necessary materials scream YES HOMO.

    *fangirls silently*
     
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    Well, this has turned into a g̶a̶y̶ difficult situation :sweating_profusely::sweating_profusely:
     
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    To be perfectly fair... After a time it doesn't matter anymore. People will get used to that sight, so it becomes normal for them that this interaction exists. It may have been confusing / funny / weird to them at first, but if you don't mind? I doubt that they will see anything out of place.
    For example, when I studied, I kinda massaged shoulders of my friends, simply because ... dunno, I could? Because I wanted to do anything and was bored? At some point it just became a normal sight that I would stand behind someone in a break and massage them. Would you consider that weird? It didn't take long for people (including the other studends and professors) to get used to it, so I doubt your case would be all that different.

    Petting someones hair does seem to be more of an intimate kind of thing, but if you do it sub-conscious? To be honest, it is far weirder that the guys like that than you doing it in all honesty, but who am I to judge? :p
     
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    You have some pretty wholesome relationships with your bro’s :blobReach:
     
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    nope~
    unless among lover this cat never see lap pillow among friends be it boyxboy, boyxgirl or girlxgirl
    oh if it escort thing then this cat see it~
    so if this cat see you doing that~
    take photo then
    19668.png
     
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    Looks like covid lockdown has hastened Tony's world domination plan. A world ruled by fujoshi... *shiver
     
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    What matters is what you and your friends in school thinks imo
    If you think that's okay, and your friends didn't mind too, then that's totally okay!
    At my place my male friends wont really do that actually since they would think its too "gay". But at the same time, just seeing eye to eye is too "gay" for them so yeah
    But personally I think that's fine. A bit too intimate with the caressing, but still okay
     
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    Sounds great! XD *sharpens weapon*
     
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    really? it's pretty common in my school even with the one with the opposite gender. maybe because they don't really see lap pillow as an act that involve romantic moment, they just do that naturally. Even when i suddenly lay down to some girls lap and using it as pillow they don't really make a fuss about it and act like usual.
     
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    Damn, did you just become a real life ikeman!?:blobfearful::blobpeek:
     
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