Masculine
Acceptance, Affirmation
& Affection
My Platonic Touch Group or One-on-One sessions and Video Counseling will change your heart, mind...and quite possibily your soul!
How I can Help:
If you've experienced any of the following, please know that I have been there, gained wisdom and insight and I can help lead you to a life of joy:
Coming out later in life.
Bisexual vs. Gay questions.
Cuddling and physical affection man to man.
Coming out to wife and family.
Religion vs. sexual intimacy.
Religion vs. true spirituality.
Healing past hurts and/or traumas.
Boyhood as a "late bloomer".Please read "My Journey" below for more.
About Touch Therapy
From light-hearted to deeply soul enriching, Kevin's group and one-on-one cuddling and touch sessions have been helping men since 2009.Featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article in 2019 (link below), showcased on SiriusXM Radio and snidely commented on by Rush Limbaugh; “What is this world coming to?”, Kevin's touch and cuddle sessions satisfy deep longings by leveraging what he refers to as “The Three A's”: Acceptance, Affirmation and to emotionally anchor the first two A's, Affection.Touch meetings create a beautiful space for peer-to-peer, brotherly and fatherly affection. Each touch process is coupled with an intention which integrates the physical, intellectual and emotional self. The ground rules make it clearly platonic, eliminating the sexual pressure or expectations often encountered when men pursue touch with each other.
At first, arousal may occur. But once the phyche realizes the touch is emotional and not sexual, things return to the status quo.
There is no shame here!
Hundreds of men have found deep, healing satisfaction from these meetings and one-on-one sessions including men:
• Who just love to give and receive affection
• With husbands or wives
• With religious and spiritual convictions
• Rejected by highschool peers
• Whose only male touch has been from an abusive father
• Who have been verbally or sexually abusedKevin has personally encountered many of these scenarios in his life which he has worked hard to transform into compassion, wisdom and a free and joyful spirit, thereby enriching the hearts and souls of others.
To schedule a sesson:
Please email me at [email protected]
Bi-weekly meetings will be organized in Northern New Jersey starting in winter 2026.
Kevin Eitzenberger
Founder & Facilitator
Hello beautiful-hearted men!
For 16 years, I've been creating safe spaces for men to get the touch, bonding and healing they need. Both group and one-on-one sessions are playful yet serious and personally enriching. Your laughter and tears are welcomed here! We agree to safe, platonic touch boundaries. For instance; no touching from the upper thigh to the beltline.Through a series of processes, you may choose to experience hand holding, back and chest rubbing, hair and face stroking, beard to beard contact, cuddling, nurturing, tight holding, eye gazing, spooning, verbal and non-verbal sharing, quiet contemplation and even a "puppy-pile" session for groups.Participants are fully supported in choosing to pass at any time. I welcome men of any race, national origin, age (18+), spirituality/religion and sexual orientation. For group sessions, touch processses will take place on the clean floor of a yoga studio.If you feel a tugging in your heart toward this kind of rare connection with men like you, please contact me.
To schedule a sesson:
Please email me at [email protected]
I also lead small groups and offer one-on-one sessions in the New York City and Philadelphia areas
and video counseling internationally.
Please email me for more information and thank you!
My Journey to Creating
Men’s Touch Workshops
I can trace my awareness of being different back to an early age. During a Christmas visit with family friends, I remember having a "crush" on twin brothers. This wasn’t the typical camaraderie between boys—it was something deeper. Decades later, when I asked my mother how old I was during that visit, she confirmed I was only four. That memory convinces me today: My Creator beautifully made me this way...as a man who loves men. But it took me decades until I finally embraced this truth.As a 14-year-old Roman Catholic, I felt a calling to the priesthood. But because I was aware of my same-sex attraction, I resolved that I could never honorably enter the seminary. I prayed relentlessly that God would take this “cross” from me. Instead, life unfolded in ways I could not have predicted.At twenty-three, while studying abstract expressionism in New York City, I fled to Phoenix, Arizona, overwhelmed by fears of what “becoming” gay might mean for me if I stayed in the city. There, through a faith community, I met my future wife. Before we began dating, I told her I was bisexual, and that I had a same-sex experience in college. Neither of us fully understood what that meant at the time. We married in 1987, built a life together, and raised three amazing daughters. Despite nearly 35 years of marriage filled with both joys and struggles, I carried a deep sadness because I was trying to live as someone I wasn’t—the head of a heteronormative “nuclear family” household.Along the way, I made mistakes. Early in our marriage I was unfaithful with a man, something I confessed to my wife and promised never to repeat. But I was still ashamed and dejected. By 2009, my wife finally confronted me: “Kevin, I’m tired of you being unhappy. Figure it out, or I will have to take the girls and leave.” That moment was a turning point. Within a week, by divine grace, I was introduced to two transformative experiences: The Mankind Project’s New Warrior Training Adventure (MKP.org) and the Journey Into Manhood (JIM) weekend, which at the time was framed as a “reparative” workshop for men with unwanted same-sex attraction.It was during that latter experience that I realized what I thought I wanted: Healthy, platonic male touch and connection. That insight led me to create my first men’s cuddle group in Jacksonville, Florida. Years later, after relocating to Pennsylvania, I founded the Plymouth Meeting (greater Philadelphia area) men’s cuddle group, which grew to more than 20 weekly participants. We met in the library of a church led by a compassionate pastor who understood the power of safe touch.Through these workshops, I have witnessed the incredible healing that man to man platonic touch can bring. I have tear-stained shirts from embracing men who had never before experienced safe, nurturing touch from another man. Many were carrying the wounds of physical or sexual abuse. In those moments, I felt as though my arms were God’s arms, offering comfort and healing.One memory that has never left me is of a married (to a woman) father of two who joined our Jacksonville group. He was a gentle, faith-filled, compassionate man, but after a lapse into homosexual behavior outside of his marriage, his wife left with their children. Shortly after, he took his own life. That tragedy shook me to the core. I vowed then that no man should ever feel so ashamed, isolated, or hopeless. I committed to making myself available, offering safe spaces of connection and counselling so no other life would be lost to silence and despair.Even during the Pandemic, when in-person groups had to pause, I carried this mission in my heart. And when it became possible again, I resumed the workshops—continuing the work I know I was called to do.In 2022, another profound experience deepened my clarity about who I am. While traveling in Guatemala with a close friend we participated in a psilocybin journey led by a local shaman. During that six-hour experience I was shown the sacredness of my wife’s womb, the beauty of the souls (three daughters) we had created together, and the truth that our relationship had reached its natural closure. When I returned home, I told my wife that I needed to live authentically—as a man who loves men. With heavy hearts, we parted ways. Because of her deep compassion for others, she and my adult daughters never shamed me; instead, after some initial sadness and some anger, they support me.Today, as a gay child of God, I bring all of these life experiences—my faith, my mistakes, my marriage, my healing, and my calling—into my role as the founder and leader of men’s therapeutic touch workshops. I know firsthand the pain of longingness and the hunger for safe, affirming connection. I also know the transformative power of being held, accepted, and loved without judgment.My mission is simple: to provide men with safe, platonic spaces for touch and connection—environments where healing can begin, shame can be released, and hearts and even souls can be restored.
Contact me at: [email protected]
Some thoughts:
My meetings are a celebration of who we are. Sometimes we get in touch with the "little boy" within us all and reaffirm that we loved ourselves before we understood that we were different... before we were rejected.Instead of being cultivated as the natural wonders we are, we were left hanging to wither and rot on the vine. But most of us persevere and set out to gather life in any way we best can.--As gay men, we are an indigenous culture. We think and act differently from non-gays far beyond sexual preference. Another way to put it: We are a precious indigenous species... indigenous to the universe and to our special way. We are intuitive seekers of mystery and wonder!*This universe of our origin is a place most straight people never see, understand or are even remotely aware of.We can re-learn the love of true self!* Paraphrased from the book "Body Gay"
by Mark Thompson.
© 2026 Kevin Eitzenberger