File under "I seriously thought this was going to be an Onion article"

[merrily]

Found via my mom: International hotel chain Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month.

Can we have a hearty "yech" from the back row?

Comments

[meigui]

...on the one hand, I can kind of see where they're getting this from--human body temperature is fairly specific and there's millenia of precedent in quite a few cultures of treating fever or hypothermia by "bleeding heat" to or from another person, which is probably the most reliable way to do it safely and efficiently in a low-tech, low-resource environment. But on the other... yes, yech! I mean seriously guys, how many different flavors of squick are you going for here? 8(

[glitterandlube]

After I got done washing my hands just for reading that, how about if you get to choose someone to be a bed warmer that stays around.

I'll think of a way that's not a hooker later.

[merrily]

AND A NEW FIC TROPE IS BORN! Has fandom ever owed The Holiday Inn one before?

[glitterandlube]

idk I think it's still under blanket fic?