Who is being “Highly inappropriate?”
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 | Uncategorized
A third grade teacher in Florida is about to be crucified for asking her students to rub her upper back. Men often feel job-related tension in the lower back, women freeze up around the neck and shoulders.
We live in a sensually frigid society, where virtually all touching between adults has been forced into two rigid categories: sexual or commercial. Outside of purely sexual touching, everyone goes out of their way to remain as impersonal as possible. This is from the introduction to my book THE ART OF SENSUAL MASSAGE:
“Since nearly all physical contact is construed as potentially sexual, people constantly avoid touching each other. Those licensed to touch, like Doctors, Barbers and Hairdressers and Tailors, are careful to remain as impersonal as possible lest they be accused of making an advance. The simple fact remains, however, that you can use your hands to bring immense pleasure to another human being without the coldness of traditional therapy and outside the intimacies of sex—I call it the sensual.”
I wrote that back in 1972. I had hoped we had made some progress since then in permitting our citizens to touch each other. I do hope this poor woman can be left alone and restored to her job. Teaching is stressful enough. If the kids can’t be permitted to massage a teacher’s neck and shoulders, maybe the parents can.
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