If there’s one thing we hate here at CuddlyDating.com, it’s feeling intimidated on the nightclubbing scene. How many of us have headed to a club for a great night, only to feel different, separated and shunned by the so-called beautiful people sipping their drinks delicately and gyrating on podiums? Watch any scene in a movie or drama set in a club; we’ll guarantee you’ll never see a plus-sized person working it on the dancefloor.

Well, all that’s changing, and we’re glad! Club Bounce is the world’s finest plus-sized club. Taking place at the PCH Club in Long Beach, CA, Club Bounce caters to Big Beautiful Women, Big Handsome Men, and the people who admire them. With top DJs and awesome settings, it’s become a great success, thanks to club promoter Lisa Marie Garbo (descendant of the iconic Greta).

The beauty of it is that whilst Club Bounce is an event where people of size can come together, be proud and feel accepted, the club night does not practice the same discrimination other nightclubs are famous for. Just because it’s aimed at the BBW and BHM communities doesn’t mean that anyone is excluded; the point of the night is size acceptance, so anyone, whether big, tall, skinny or short, can come along and get their mojo on, regardless of what category they fit into.

It’s about time!

Check it out here: http://www.clubbounce.net/home2.html

Girls, we know that for centuries, women have been trapped in a struggle to look just-so, depending on what the look of the moment is. Most of the time, that look has involved being a size 10, wearing the right clothes, and using the right make-up and cosmetics. Well, there is a cosmetics campaign out there that we at CuddlyDating.com can really get behind.

Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty is, for once, a cosmetics campaign that, rather than convincing women that they are hideous and need to apply more and more cosmetic junk to cover up, instead encourages women to think of themselves as beautiful and buy products to properly care for themselves. How? Well, look at Dove’s images policy. Yes, of course, some of the pictures are doctored minutely, in order to meet professional photography standards. Besides this, however, the images used by Dove to sell its products is extraordinary; the women used in Dove ads are of all ages, all sizes and all ethnic origins, breaking the traditional mould of the white, size-zero, blonde, 16 year-old model.

It doesn’t stop there, either. Dove’s website, www.thecampaignforrealbeauty.co.uk, also includes cool stuff to help women and girls boost their self-esteem and try to see their body more positively, with self-esteem quizzes, FAQs on body image, and all sorts of other positive goodies. Additionally, Dove has created the Dove Self-Esteem Fund, which provides much needed funding for charities such as B-Eat that tackle low self-esteem issues in girls and women.

In short, it’s barrier-breaking, it makes women feel special; it’s awesome!

Since exploding voluptuously onto our stereos and TV screens with The Gossip in 2007, Beth Ditto has become an inspiration to plus-sized, and actually just about any-size women the world over.The big lady with the big voice is a punk reaction to image-obsessed pop; rocking out in daring outfits, railing against the Bush administration and generally putting on quite a show of strength against traditional pop-princesses everywhere. Where do you go from there?

Well, you bring out your own clothing range, that’s where. Ditto recently launched her own clothing line at UK plus-size store Evans, bringing some much-needed punk pizzazz to the traditionally straight-laced store. Check out the awesome outfits at http://www.bethdittoatevans.co.uk/. We’ll bet that you would never have thought of wearing stuff like that with such panache, right? Well, if Beth can do it, why can’t you?