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Is it normal for a masseur to offer "extras"?

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OrangeChips1 · 12/05/2025 09:26

My DH has a job which takes it's toll on his back so he gets occasional massages to try and straighten the knots out. I do give it a go but I can't get deep enough.

More often than not, it gets to the end of the massage and he's offered "extras" which really freaks him out. These are legit places in spas or gyms or on the high street with staff wearing uniforms etc.
We've noticed that when I've booked them on his behalf (as a gift or whatever) this doesn't happen.

Is it just the done thing and we're both naive about this? I never get offered any extras so I was always of the belief that a massage was a massage unless you go to a certain type of place 🤷🙈

YABU = you're naive
YANBU = that sounds like unusually bad luck

OP posts:
PersephonesPomegranate · 12/05/2025 09:29

That's just not a thing, OP. If you believe your husband, which I wouldn't....then I'd be lodging some pretty serious complaints to the company and/or the police.

My husband gets massages often, at many many different places and this has never happened to him once.

Boomer55 · 12/05/2025 09:28

No, usually a professionally qualified masseuse won’t offer extras.

Motomum23 · 12/05/2025 09:28

wtf?? I mean I'm a woman and know no men who have been to a spa but I thought 'extras' were for back alley places or Thailand!

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