- Bouché, V. (2021, February 2). COMMENTARY: Texas laws attempting to regulate the illicit massage industry are burdening the wrong people. Fort Worth Business Press. Retrieved from https://fortworthbusiness.com/opinion/since-1985-massage-therapy-has-been-a-regulated-health-care-profession-in-the-state-of-texas/?fbclid=IwAR1uXmN1z99bdBhlevjcypIrw3jyhiNXAjrYkaEedxEzpckBbJAUrV4_qjc
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Smith, E. (2021, March 26). How to protect massage workers. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/opinion/politics/atlanta-shooting-massage-workers-protection.html?fbclid=IwAR35OO9_I-gxPd2HcXNBj-IZDVYEFavtLYC8Y3WFM7LTCxNPBfFfc6ltHxY
The tag line to the article: “Policing and criminalization of sex work hurts massage workers, even when they aren’t sex workers.”
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Richard, M. E. (2021, March 27). Deshaun Watson’s massage therapy allegations spotlight a misunderstood industry. NBC News Think. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/deshaun-watson-s-massage-therapy-allegations-spotlight-misunderstood-industry-ncna1262231
The conclusion is that the responsibility for fixing the problem should not be placed on massage therapists, but on the clients instead. [↩] - Bouché, V. (2021, February 2). COMMENTARY: Texas laws attempting to regulate the illicit massage industry are burdening the wrong people. Fort Worth Business Press. Retrieved from https://fortworthbusiness.com/opinion/since-1985-massage-therapy-has-been-a-regulated-health-care-profession-in-the-state-of-texas/?fbclid=IwAR1uXmN1z99bdBhlevjcypIrw3jyhiNXAjrYkaEedxEzpckBbJAUrV4_qjc[↩]
Thanks for your support. You’re right on.
I did send you an email asking a question… please check it out.
As a licensed massage therapist, I 100% support the massage therapist’s re-write. The wording in the city’s proposal is offensive! We have had to work hard to distance ourselves from the stereo types; the verbiage in the city’s proposal implies we are sex workers. Our required coursework to obtain a massage license is in part medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, kinesiology, pathology, functional orthopedic assessment, ethics, business practices….. Treat us like the professionals that we are! Do you go to a physical therapist and tell them they have to cover their genitals, don’t wear transparent clothing or use sex toys?? NO ! Why then is it somehow ok to talk in such a demeaning manner to massage therapists ? This language tells the perverts that we’re in the same category as sex workers and puts us in vulnerable situations when they are emboldened to act.