Do women like hugs?

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Nothing sexual and nothing erotic or demeaning I was just wondering! I like hugs alot as a guy because I feel loved and comforted and it gives me confidence!

Yeees ! :3
I guess everyone likes hugs except if the person has emotional or sensory issues. Studies prove kids raised in a full of hugs home are happier and healthier that those raised by cold family members. It's a species thing we need the contact. Also monkeys are like that too.

I don't like hugs. They make me feel uncomfortable, anxious and self-conscious. I don't really like being touched at all, but hugs are especially bad. I don't even like them from my Mom.

I don't do hugs. I don't want to.

The last time I was hugged was about 3 and a half years ago.

I hate hugs. I also grew up with an aspie mom who also hates hugs. We hug maybe every few months. Several years went by without a hug from both of my parents at one point. My sister also hates people touching her, so her and I haven't hugged in going on 5 years. Maybe this is why I have trouble in romantic situations... Hmmm... I don't know. I don't see family members, so I don't have to worry about them hugging me either. Wow, I just realized how my life consists of zero affection, that can't be healthy...

Are you asking if Aspie women like hugs, or if women like hugs? I've found that women generally love hugs. But many women under 30 are very anti-social and think hugging is a violation of their personal space...you know, because they are sooooo self-important. I blame Facebook. Also, hugging largely depends on context, which can be difficult for us Aspies to figure out. And not to be condescending, but if you are giving a hug, it matters if she wants it, not if you do.

I think that's a great generalisation. I don't know about where you live but where I live women under 30 are not anti-social and love hugs. Friends hug each other all the time, like few times a day.
Also personal space is not a matter of self-importance. Everyone has personal space, when you want to hug someone first you have to read the body language to see if they want it or not. You can't do something to someone if they don't want it.
And if people nowadays are self-important is it really because of facebook? Or is facebook's success only a consequence of a indivualist self-centered society?

But if it was sarcasm/joke I beg your pardon

Personally I don't care much anymore.
Ever since I was a child up to a year or two ago I hated hugs (unless they came from my parents). I used to scream and wriggle when someone hugged me and at times I even hit the person who was hugging me or I cursed at them.
It's almost two years that I've been doing karate and I have become pretty insensitive to touch in some areas of my body. My shoulders and arms are still very sensitive to touch (I still feel pain if someone touches my shoulder or arm) but on some other areas, like my sides or legs, I have become insensitive. I know because today Andrew asked me to move, I didn't hear him and he touched my side to make me take notice of him. I didn't feel he was touching me until I looked in the mirror and I saw him touching me.
Now I don't react aggressively to hugs anymore but I usually just freeze in the other person's hug.
Last year I hugged Alexandra and she's the first person out of my family that I've ever hugged.

I like hugs from my husband more than almost anything else. If other people "aren't allowed" to hug me that day, I almost always still want him to do it.

Physical contact wise, I'd rather be hugged (my calm way) than to do any other "fun" activity. We do have babies, too, so the other stuff is happening, but getting hugged gets top banana.

If my body is very tense, though, as in hunch back of Notre Dame, please don't touch me at all, especially if I haven't done my neck and shoulder exercise that day. I will want to yell at you if you come near to hug me.

I have sensory problems, so I don't like hugs much. I need a warning before someone hugs me so I cant prepare for it. I hate it when people give me a surprise attack hug from behind. Also, I don't like hugs from people I don't trust or who are disrespectful.

Not a fan of hugs myself. Part of it is due to not having many growing up. Another large part is because when I was growing up, I had lots of aunts, and they all wore a great deal of perfume, and they also had very large bosoms. A fair portion of growing up, a hug equaled my face being pressed into that large perfumed chest. Being hugged by them was rather suffocating.

Ive learned how to accept hugs when socially required, but I dont generally initiate them, and try really hard not to shy away when someone tries to give me one.

Sometimes.

I love them, I am a very tactile person and I need touch

BUT I am selective about who I am willing to touch, I am quite afraid of most men and there are quite a few womyn I want to be left alone by, also I don't like being grabbed randomly so I need a warning. Other than that I love hugs I would like a whole lot more than I am getting at the moment.

and not the silly online pixel type - real ones, fools think showing me something on a flat screen is just like real life, NOT

I feel comfort and secure when hugging a woman given i expect her to hug me and when she would expect me tto hug her not a surprise hug out of nowhere that that freaks me out. I jump like a cat that has had water poured on it!

I don't do hugging very well. I'm pretty stiff when I do it and I don't stay in an embrace for very long. I'm not great at showing affection in general. But seeing as everyone seems to hug each other these days, I just put up with it, like a dog putting up with an annoying child.

I do like hugs, but only occaisonally and only from people I trust and am very close to. Oh, and dogs - I have no problem showing affection to dogs or having them physically close to me (for instance, if we are playing).

Most women I know have very little sense of personal space and will always touch you, hug you, be affectionate, etc. Most of my female friends try to be conscientous of my needs, and I try to be conscientous of theirs by allowing them to hug me only if they tell me first. That compromise usually works.

If anyone wanted one I could give one all they have to do is ask.