Local massage therapists say Watson’s actions have hurt a profession that is integrated with modern medicine but routinely suffers from false connections to sex work.
Many area therapists, shaken by news of the deal, exchanged warnings to be on the lookout for the new quarterback. Some defended the Browns, cautioning that many facts were unknown.
That kind of comment puts therapists at risk, said Gorski, a 20-year practitioner who once referred employees to the Browns: “Massage therapy requires an enormous amount of compassion and intellect. To see it being compared to prostitution or to say that ‘happy endings’ are normal, regular behavior is vile.In Ohio, massage therapy is regulated by the State Medical Board, which requires an exam for licensure.
Donna Agrinsonis, the owner of Heavenly Healing Hands Massage Therapy in Beachwood, said clients with sexual expectations have become bolder. “Years ago they’d beat around the bush,” she said. “Now they just come right out and say, ‘I want a happy ending.’ " The trade announcement was particularly vexing to area massage therapists who double as Browns fans. When Gorski, a lifelong fan whose childhood mixtapes included the “Bernie Bernie” song, emailed her boycott message to her distribution list, about 100 immediately unsubscribed.
According to Nancy Broadbent, the director of Cuyahoga Community College’s 11-month massage therapy program, if a client engages in sexual behavior or innuendo that makes a massage therapist uncomfortable, it’s a violation of professional standards for the therapist to allow the situation to continue., which requires therapists to “desexualize massage” and prohibits “any level of sexual impropriety from clients or myself.
If she ever experienced the worst of what Watson is accused of, “I’d be out the door and leave them there,” she said. “They’re not going to chase after you naked.” “I think more than anything these girls want to be acknowledged—not ridiculed or called gold-diggers,” she said. “That’s what makes me so angry. Acknowledge what happened. Don’t attack the victim.”Ohio’s massage therapy structure is unique to the country. In 1915, Ohio became the first state to regulate massage therapy and began licensing therapists the following year. It is also the only jurisdiction where the State medical board serves as the regulating body.
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