Hi! My name is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and I am a Licensed Massage Therapist in the state of Louisiana. I think that could really help! My question is are there female clients who actually prefer male therapists to female and do you get many objections from male clients because you are a male therapist? Thanks for your time. I was amused by the "carcass" comment in the article. I can imagine for you it was tough overcoming many of the stereotypes of being a male massage therapist. I was and am influenced by my mother who is also a massage therapist in Atlanta, GA. Army as an Airborne Infantryman and I don't have to tell you that it was a totally different mentality. Of course this is stereotyping in it's finest form! I just spent the last 8 years in the U.S. Lately I've been getting a lot of kidding and cajoling from friends about my future profession. As an aspiring male massage therapist this article put things in perspective. Do you think that would be appropriate for this situation or do you think I should schedule with him? Thank you for your help Ryan. I am thinking that I am going to call him back and tell him that The situation has made me very uncomfortable and I don’t think that I could give my best massage with this situation hanging over my head. So since then he will call to schedule and appointment and I will be booked on that day (for real) and I don’t know if I should schedule an appointment with this guy or not. This made me very nervous because I felt like now he was just scheduling so he could call and talk to me. When he called to reschedule I read a statement to him (to make sure he knew that my massages were completely non-sexual) and he agreed to the statement so we scheduled another session for him and 2 days before he cancelled again. Later that week he canceled the session he had scheduled. He so OH I am so sorry I have crossed the line. He asked me why and I told him because I do not know him and he is asking me out. He then started calling me on my business line "just to talk." I then told him the whole situation was making me very uncomfortable. After he scheduled the session he went on to ask me out I declined of course!! (I do not know this person at all) It really creeped me out!! I told him I couldn’t date clients.
There is a man who called me about 2 months ago to schedule a session he had seen a flyer (with my picture on it) about my business in a local business. Hey Ryan! How are you doing? I have a very important question for you on a situation that I am having with my business.
My name is XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and I work in Massachusetts.Once again.thanks for the great article!! I think I will probably go into business for myself at some point, maybe in a year or so. It is frustrating to me sometimes but its nice to know I am not alone. I am a male massage therapist and I just graduated this past May and decided to work at a couple of local spas.the clients' seem to only want women. *Please e-mail me any concerns, complaints, or thoughts on being a ‘Male Therapist’ (Your name will be kept confidential). (The article is at the bottom of this page)
All of these responses are from an article I published in in Aug 2002.