A lively dialogue ensued on Erik Dalton's Myofascial Therapy page, to which I made this contribution. It was a long enough and covered enough massage related territory that I thought it worth preserving here, so here's my 2 cents worth:
...I did hit the link someone posted who was trying to recruit fellow complainers to join the campaign. Actually, although I agree with Angela that these 'ladies' (on the View) have probably never had a good massage from a well trained therapist. A genuine massage professional on the show who could give great hands on demo with instructive monologue would do more to redeem our profession than a bunch of whiney complaints, IMO. Maybe those letter writers among you should suggest they invite Erik(Dalton) on to do just that.
Certainly Lizzie Huffnpuff needs a good rub out. I've seen short excerpts from the show over on Crooks and Liars when the political 'discussions' run afoul, often it's this brain dead conservative spokesperson saying something mean spirited with her foot firmly stuck in her uninformed mouth...yet again.
If you looked at the clip, she's the one who bought a massage for her hubbie as a present. When a "hot chick" with massage table and nice music in hand arrived, she freaked out. She admittedly sat in the other room wondering if he was gonna stray, probably with her ear to the other side of the door listening for the first inkling of moans or pleasure sighs wherein she would burst thru the door and save him from his 10 minutes of pure bliss. Just not having to listen to that nasal voice for a hour would be relaxing enough, IMO.
They questioned whether the therapist was legit because they heard that the rub was a 3 hour one. I, of course, tend to believe the therapist's version, but hey, I'm clearly biased in her favor. They do have state licensing in Orgegon requiring 500 hours training from a legit school and I'm guessing the hotels want to see the license before letting the table go up the elevator, unless, of course they condone hoes disguised as therapists and pay the regular fines for that or make exceptions for the likes of Al Gore, which ain't unlikely.
Gotta admit tho, a 3 hour out call in a hotel, if that really was the case, is a bit iffy on a zoftig non athlete like Gore, no matter how tall he is. So right there the therapist made mistake #1.
If she saw him more than once after he made inappropriate suggestions to her as, I think someone suggested was the case, mistake #2. If she saw him a second time after inappropriate dialogue without her tape recorder going to substantiate her version of the he said she said, mistake #3, and a doozy, 'cause the powers that be are always gonna side with the powerful man in a he said she said. Not knowing that and thinking she could report this and be believed, mistake #4.
If you guys don't think massage is still a fringe profession in a variety of circles then you need to get out more. Pick up a copy of the LA Weekly and look at all the call girls (and boys) advertising 'outcall massage' in there. Remember the guy who brought down Ted Haggert, a gay 'massage therapist'....who sold dope, with tape recordings to back up his version of the story, which is probably the only reason he was believed.
Right here in river city, at Golds Gym, the 'Mecca of Bodybuilding' there's a whole underground of bodybuilders who 'train', 'stretch' and offer who knows what other services to the known schmoes, yep, that's what they call em. Schmoes are underdeveloped lawyers and businessmen who also train at Golds and who like to be handled and squeezed, probably often with happy endings included, by the muscular strong bodybuilders and are willing to pay $450+/hr for the treat. Hey, ya gotta finance that growth hormone somehow!*&?? You don't even want to know how I learned about the schmoes, but suffice it to say, it was the hard way, no pun intended.
Ethics in our field is important. Great demonstrations of legitimate work go a long way to counter all this mishigosh which, unfortunately, yes is still being done in the name of massage.
You can't entirely fault those girls on the view for not knowing the difference. They probably haven't experienced the difference. If dibs go out for demonstrations though, I'll take Joy Behar or Whoopi. They're so baudy, funny and bold. Love those two. Someone else can educate Barbara or attempt such with fluffhead huffnpuff, if that's even possible. Maybe if it was a handsome guy like Erik or Tom Myers, she'd finish her legit massage experience cooing just like her hubbie probably did. Maybe she might even experience, in presence of the subtle silence of an aware presence, the opening to finally take ownership of some of the disowned unconscious agendas in her psyche's shadow so she could stop projecting them all over her hubbie and the rest of us.
My bottom line on all this is sorta beside the point, but here it is anyway, I HATE out calls. The balance of power, professionally, is stacked in the wrong direction, right from the get go.
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