Prostituting Myself?

This week has really taken my brain for a spin, from coming up with new project ideas, to deciding where to live, to what is the meaning of life. This being said I think the most interesting thing that happened this week was when two people tried telling me that "Free Hugs" is prostitution. Now I was completely dumbstruck that someone could think that.. Do they just not like giving or receiving hugs? And if this is true I have been prostituting myself out for many years and didn't even know it!

This has been taking up most of my brain thought all week and I felt I must share it. Now prostitution has always been defined to me as "the exchange of money for sexual favors," so with this in mind I had look in the Dictionary just to double check that I was always told correctly.

Dicitionary.com's definition:

prostitution

[pros-ti-too-shuh n, -tyoo-]

noun

1.

the act or practice of engaging in sexualintercourse for money.

2.

base or unworthy use, as of talent or ability.

Based on this I was correct that "Free Hugs" can't be considered prostitution since the hugs are free. In the process of this "research" I found this video of How giving hugs could be prostitution though, please enjoy! :)