Not at all. However, since I visited a couple of escorts back in 2014, especially this Columbian escort named Suzy where I basically "hugged-groped" (ie hugged her thick nude body with her breasts against my chest, smelled her hair, groped her bum, and hugged her VERY hard and squeezed and pressed against her).
There was one cashier lady I established a "Hug" relationship with back in 2019. She would ask me for hugs and I would hug her. I initially hugged her when she had a Christmas costume on. I put allot of energy into my hugs and usually rub my nose against her face and smell her in when hugging her. I think anyone I manage to hug is usually every open and friendly with me from observation and it's not a big deal to go for any other close (ie number or whatever) if they are willing to do that.
The article, however, doesn't say it has to be a sexual hug. You could also be hugging your pillows. Sometimes I may play a female commentator, on youtube, that looks decent and intelligent and hug my pillows while listening to her. If you have a love-doll or sex-robot then I guess you could do that to them too. Therefore, like fapping, if you can hug yourself, a pillow, or get a sex-doll and hug her, than even incel-tier guys get enough hugs according to that article. As long as something is 100% under your control and you don't need a partner than it's incel-proof.
In general there are allot of pleutonic non sexual feminine energy options over youtube to feed on. Women put up vlogs, they are on news commentary, ASMR, you name it, it's like a huge menu if you want something that's not porn or sexual but want that type of connection that leads to hugging pillows.