The Weird Massage
Legitimate massage therapists are hard to find, but weird massage therapists are everywhere.
Many massage therapists are inclined toward the usual silly convictions of holistic therapists. Among their many claims are: massage balances the life force, improves overall health, strengthens the immune system, aids in weight loss, enhances circulation*, has lasting effects, and so on. Massage books and schools perpetuate the insidious belief that nameless toxins (and toxic emotions) build up in the body. They say that massage flushes out these toxins. Therefore, we must later drink lots of water.
The acupressurist or shiatsu therapist (a.k.a. finger pressure acupuncturist) is steeped in the supernatural notions of Asian medicine. They stress the importance of finding the right pressure points, imagined to be the size of a grain of sand.
The reflexologist purports to diagnose and treat an array of maladies through zones in the feet. Our feet are supposed to have conduits that lead to every part of the body. And yet these conduits have been found to havw no anatomic reality. Nonetheless, the reflexologist says that palpating the feet identifies health problems, and stimulating these areas is supposed to heal them. Only people ignorant of the basic structure of the body would accept this.
Craniosacral therapy is even more outlandish. The craniosacral therapist claims that they can shift our skull bones, which frees blocked life energy, improves cerebrospinal fluid flow, and treats a host of health problems. In reality, adult skull bones are solid, having fused together long ago in infancy.
Only the most ingenuous person would embrace an energy therapy like Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch or Reiki. Both are forms of spiritual healing, where practitioners wave or lay their hands on a recipient, in the belief that they conduct healing energy.
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