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Have I been violated!?

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WasThisWrongOrOk · 16/03/2019 18:13

So! Help me out here! I'm feeling weird!!
I had a back massage today! Was really looking forward to it but I'm a prude and really new to massages, so also a bit apprehensive. I had a back massage a few years ago and kept my jeans on and the therapist spent most of the time massaging knots in my shoulders, as well as massaging the rest of my back. I thought today would be the same, but I was asked to strip except undies and then the therapist pulled my underwear down and spent a lot of the time massaging my bum!!

Is this nornal? It felt weird and I spent most of the massage session paralysed with confusion and dear and wondering if I was being violated or if I'm just really naive and that this is what happens in back massages!!

Please can you let me know if this is normal or not!! I don't know what to think and because of past incidents I know I am a bit more sensitive to nudity and being touched etc.. than others, so maybe this is normal? And reaction is not.

Help!!!

(PS. I'm in my 30s so old enough to know if I was violated or not - but I just don't know! And feel really freaked out!!)

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Hubblebubbletripletrouble · 16/03/2019 18:17

Taking everything apart from pants off is normal. How high are your pants? I’ve had mine lowered slightly so they could do my lower back properly and didn’t get the oils on my pants

Unbelievable18 · 16/03/2019 18:17

It does seem a little odd, depending on how far he/she went down? Did they pull your knickers off completely? If so, that is strange. Sometimes mine goes a bit lower down my waist where my knicker line is but only folds them down slightly.

Frickssake · 16/03/2019 18:17

Was it the same therapist or a different one. Was it a male or female? Was it the same ( practice?). Couldn't you have asked them to stop?

Foxmuffin · 16/03/2019 18:16

This is normal!

WasThisWrongOrOk · 16/03/2019 18:14

*fear not dear!!

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