Not Good, but Better
Bodies are my business. Sounds sexy, right? Don't say yes and don't get excited. It won't look good on you from here and it definitely won't get you an appointment. After years of hourly appointments based on torn rotator cuffs, Achilles tendonitis, stiff necks that can barely turn, and, most humbling, bodies recovering from the havoc of chemotherapy, it's difficult to remember how and why any and all sexual aberrations about massage therapy have come to be. Neither Hippocrates or Galen, one brilliant ancient Greek and one brilliant ancient Roman (and we should almost always refer to them) wrote about massage as anything other than a healing modality. In fact, Galen wrote in disdain of this social myopia. It was, he said, "all wanton witticisms, not at all befitting a man so learned in so august an art." The topics and issues my hands and brain try to untangle all day are not nearly as interesting to people as they are to me and people in the health field. Many people, and it's not unnatural to wonder, would rather ask how many of my male clients have gotten erections. Pathetic jokes about "happy endings" aren't uncommon either. My own [...]