Side hug

[1] This can be useful for example when posing for a photograph, or if a full hug is considered too intimate for the situation.

Brio magazine (published by Focus on the Family) advised readers to refrain from front hugging members of the opposite sex in 2007.

[4] A rap song was performed by Ryan Pann as a skit at the 2009 Encounter Generation (EG) evangelical youth conference, hosted by The Fathers House church in Vacaville, California.

They encourage the use of side hugs as a rule for adults and staff members, especially when dealing with people of the opposite sex or children.

If an adult employee or volunteer of a church does not use a side hug they may be accused, rightly or wrongly, of inappropriate advances.