My corn snake is a pet and member of the family. He doesn't get too much handling right after eating, but otherwise, he interacts with us daily or almost daily. I have taken him to work with me before. He goes shopping with me sometimes. I do "Informative Training" sessions with children and other folks that have not handled snakes before, and so he gets handled by lots of people, not just family members.
People that tell you it stresses them out or they don't like it obviously don't know what they are talking about and for the most part are just repeating something they read or somebody told them, just as you did in your above post.
If you're in the "Business of breeding and selling snakes" and you have hundreds of them and you're only concern is making money, then I could see your snakes being stressed out all the time.
On the other hand, if your snake is a pet and you handle it often and treat it accordingly, then I believe they actually enjoy coming out of their cages and spending time with people.
You should be able to tell if an animal, ("Any Animal"), a horse, bird, dog, cat or even a snake, enjoys something or not.
Usually when I open the snake's cage, he will crawl out into my hands. I rarely have to go digging around for him. Now if he didn't like it, would he do that?
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