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To: one_less who wrote (74723)	9/13/2003 6:26:26 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

He would not go so far as to perform "checks" to assure that his clientele are straight men who view his service as strictly physical therapy. So, there is no absolute assurance that no one would ever get turned on by his touch but he is a mature adult and is prepared to deal with this unlikelyhood when he crosses that bridge. He would simply end the session, and excuse the client. Well, success at last. The only issue I ever took with your massage therapist--the only one, the rest you imagined--was that he was refusing to service gays preemptively due to the risk of their arousal. I both challenged its necessity and questioned how he could ever implement it. I got no response from you but more sputtering about me and my treatment of the poor bloke. It's been grueling. So glad to see the light bulb finally on.

To: one_less who wrote (74723)	9/13/2003 6:55:03 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"Your side of the argument (solon, you, X) have gone on tangents to define the masseus as sexually hung up, and a hateful descriminatory bigot." I think my emphasis was on "poorly trained" and "emotionally immature". There is no way a qualified teaching school is going to graduate a person whose only or chosen method for addressing the "potential" for sexual arousal is to turn away all clients of a certain gender or orientation. Sexual arousal is not evil. It is a natural and essential part of being human. Mature people with professional ethics do not have sex with their clients. If they fall in love with one another then they terminate the therapist/client relationship and they change their relationship to a personal and social one.