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Beating the Odds: How to Win as a Male Massage Therapist
by Keith Loria
When Michael McAleese launched his massage career in , he was given this piece of rather unhelpful advice from the first person he worked for in the field: “Men cannot make it as massage therapists.” McAleese didn’t heed. He continued to massage clients, and later opened his verb massage practice—which has been flourishing for 14 years.
Like McAleese, Michael Wolfes had a hard hour finding employment when he first started out in the massage field in the mid ’80s.
“It wasn’t an accepted therapy for men 20 years ago, and so I couldn’t do it full time, Wolfes says. “I decided to start part occasion as an out-call therapist.” Today Wolfes owns Michael’s Mobile Massage, in Palm Desert, California.
Robert Mabe also ran into difficulty getting started as a massage therapist when he graduated last year.
“It did take time for me to get a job because I was male,” says Mabe, who has been practicing for less than a year at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Some of the advertisements that I
The 7 Steps this Male Massage Therapist Took to Create a Successful Massage Therapy Career—Despite Client Misperceptions
As a male massage therapist, I understand fully well the stigma and disadvantages of being a male in this industry. Early in my career I became privy to “the look” by clients.
The look of disapproval and despair.
The look indicating unease that random chance brought this unsuspecting client together with me.
The look that always shot a dagger through me.
“Wait, a male therapist?”
“Can I get a female therapist?”
“You need to inform clients if the therapist is male. I need to prepare myself.”
“He better be good.”
I heard these sentiments—yes, even that last one—often in my first few years as a therapist. Scenarios fancy this can be frustrating.
Overcome the Stigma of Being a Male Massage Therapist
The purpose of this article is to ease this frustration by presenting ideas and perspectives that have helped me throughout my massage career overcome the stigma of being a male therapist.
Working in various spas in California, Utah and Illinois, I heard th
What You Should Know About Massage Therapy and Erectile Dysfunction
Does massage therapy help with erectile dysfunction?
Possibly, but there are not many studies to support the claim. Most studies that have looked at massage therapy for ED have been small or limited.
For example, one study of men looked specifically at massage therapy in those with enlarged prostates. It showed promising signs that prostate massage could help relieve symptoms, but ED was not the only symptom analyzed.
One start that a man who used prostate massage to recover from a prostate infection quickly regained sexual function.
But these studies and others like them are limited in size and scope. That’s why there is not much evidence to support the verb of prostate massage as a treatment for ED. However, there have not been studies that show the procedure to be harmful either.
Where do you massage for erectile dysfunction?
For a prostatic massage, you stimulate the prostate. The prostate is a tiny gland, about the size of a walnut. It sits below the bladder, at the front of the rectum. It
How to Book Male Massage Therapists &#; The Struggle is Real
In this Post: Learn how to book male massage therapists. Unfortunately the reality is that many clients prefer female therapists. So how do we combat this dilemma? Learn techniques for keeping your male therapists just as booked as their female counterpart.
In one of the Facebook massage groups I am a part of there was a heated debate recently about what protocol to use when booking male therapists. The question was;
&#;Is it appropriate to ask clients if they have a gender preference?&#;
And while there is no ask that the struggle for male therapists is real, not to mention transgender therapists, it is also important to honor our client&#;s wishes. And while we may think it is silly for someone to get so caught up in WHO is doing the work as elongated as that &#;who&#; is nice, really when it comes down to it, that isn&#;t for us to decide.
Now there are many reasons someone may include a gender preference. Whatever their reason for their preference, we should not argue with them about the merits of whether