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To: one_less who wrote (77591)	10/16/2003 3:12:08 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 82486

"The pervasive human ethic is that, 'clients should not be sexually exploited or abused during a massage session" Everybody else in the profession adheres to that ethic if they are competent of character and training. The ethic of discrimination against groups due to a presumption that they will become aroused and that arousal is harmful to the therapist (it certainly is not harmful to a normal client), is strictly Moho's ethic. Other massage therapists do not believe that. If Moho's ethic was THEIR ethic they would not be so offended. The ethic that people should be discriminated against to reduce the chance that the therapist will be harmed by an inadvertent arousal is strictly a Moho scruple. Other therapists do not believe that arousal is either bad or harmful to themselves. They are competent in their training as to how arousal occurs with most people with stimulation of nerves, and that it is inevitable from time to time when people are being rubbed and stroked. They do not have an ethic that arousal is bad, or that arousal harms--OR THAT IT S A MORAL ISSUE TO PREVENT OTHERS FROM BECOMING AROUSED AT ANY COST IN THEIR PRESENCE. They are not responsible for how others feel and think...and they recognize that it is none of their business.

To: one_less who wrote (77591)	10/16/2003 4:09:57 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

Mojo adheres to a more conservative standard of this ethic. Mojo's standard, if adopted by the massage community, would mean that gays and lesbians couldn't get massages period. A gay couldn't be massaged by a male, because that might arouse him, and couln't be massaged by a woman, since that could arouse the woman. And vice versa for lesbians. So under Mojo's standard, they don't get massages from anybody. That doesn't seem to be the prevailing view in the massage community, though.