Citations:hugbox

Noun: "A therapeutic device designed to apply pressure to the body of a hypersensitive person..."

 * 2011, Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2011, unnumbered page:
 * She [Temple Grandin] couldn't stand to be touched but was starved for affection and the safety of being contained. This need led to her clever device, the “hug box” which compressed her sides like the cattle chute it was modeled after.
 * 2013, Ashley Stanford, Troubleshooting Relationships on the Autism Spectrum: A User's Guide to Resolving Relationship Problems, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2013), ISBN 9780857008084, page 233:
 * A short 10-15 minute time to yourself to think, meditate, or, as Temple Grandin did with the “hug box,” find a type of sensory feedback that calms your body and mind.
 * 2015, Cynthia M. Joseph, "Autism", in The Brain, the Nervous System, and Their Diseases (ed. Jennifer Hellier), Greenwood (2015), ISBN 9781610693387, page 118:
 * Furthermore, as an autistic individual she [Temple Grandin] was better able to understand the struggles and created the “hug box” which calms autistic children.

Noun: "(slang, derogatory, offensive) an environment or thing which validates or reinforces a limited set of feelings or ideas"

 * 2010, "Varsity Listings", Varsity (Cambridge University), Issue 712, 5 February 2010, page 23:
 * Free music? Cheap drinks? A surprising and unexpected theme? What more do you want from a night at left-wing hugbox King's?
 * 2011, "The Waif", "I Hate Activists", Oregon Commentator (University of Oregon), Volume 28, Issue 11, 18 May 2011, page 10:
 * Instead, we get a bunch of hugbox panel discussions where people just reiterate the same, obvious points. Yes, rape is bad. We get it.
 * 2011, "GroovyED", "The Terrible Nature of TV Tropes", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), Volume 116, Issue 5, 8 July 2011, page 10:
 * It exists in a state that could be called a "hugbox" that any person who criticizes others is labelled a bully, and is shunned.
 * 2014, Emma Atlas, "Microblogging: Democratizing truth", The Diamondback (University of Maryland), Volume 104, Number 68, 10 February 2014, page 4:
 * Discussions on social issues aren't so much “discussions” as online hugboxes, because the mechanics of Tumblr make it so.
 * 2014, Justin Lee, "4chan, Reddit users battle for web dominance", Common Sense (Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, Maryland), Volume 44, Issue 3, 9 October 2014, page 10:
 * 4chan sees Reddit's so-called stability as a padded cell that acts as a hugbox that filters out reality.
 * 2015, Jonathan Clements & Helen McCarthy, The Anime Encyclopedia, 3rd Revised Edition: A Century of Japanese Animation, Stone Bridge Press (2015), ISBN 9781611729092, unnumbered page:
 * But it has ever been thus in anime romance (JUBEICHAN THE NINJA GIRL), and indeed, the idea of life in a fan-friendly hug-box has been approached in a far better manner in works such as PRINCESS JELLYFISH.
 * 2015, Peter Heft, "Against 'Safe Spaces'", The Bullsheet (Denison University), Volume 59, Number 92, 23 March 2015, page 1:
 * "Safe spaces" can be created in private or in the context of clubs of closed, tightly knit groups, but attempting to turn an unparalleled public space into a hugbox will solve exactly nothing and create a generation of crybabies.