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That DH went for a swedish massage and ended up with a stiffy?

93 replies

HunnyIsABunny · 11/01/2008 19:20

namechanged due to sheer embarrassment. The company he works for paid for all empoyees to visit a health club, this included use of the Gym, sauna, steam room etc, plus they could choose one treatment. He chose a sweedish massage. This is the first time he has had a massage and ended up having an errection . I feel really upset about it and I don't really know why. I know it's not the crime of the century but I guess it mean he was attracted to the therapist and she was 10+ years younger than me (according to him). GRRRRRRRRR .

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glaskham · 12/01/2008 11:37

my best friend was doing her training for her massage course and i was her 'dummy' to practice on....i dont find my friend at all sexually attractive, even though she's female...but i left feeling very horny after each session...and the first time was amazing!! i had about 1.5hrs of her and her teacher rubbing me all over with hot oils and everything, soothing relaxing music... enough to make me get wet knicks!!

bunnyhunny · 12/01/2008 11:40

lol
I have a fried who is a masseuse, and she says its reasonably common!

btw Its not me under a very slightly different name!!

lovelysongbird · 06/08/2008 00:11

well if you have an allover massage full body, does that mean everywhere bums norks willies fanjos?

PinkTulips · 06/08/2008 00:20

i think if someone were to give me a swedish massage i'd get an erection

pampering like that is extremely arousing and some people are very sensitive to the sensual element of a massage.

it relaxes the muscles and gets the blood flowng while simultaneosly stimulating all the feel good zones on the body, not surprising at all he got a hard on.

surprised he told you though if your the type to get all huffy about it might have been best keeping that titbit of information to himself..... unless he's trying to suggest you give him a massage as foreplay?

lazaroulovesleggings · 06/08/2008 00:21

It does happen a lot. Don't worry.

PavlovtheCat · 06/08/2008 00:22

My Dh gets up with a morning glory sometimes, the first creature he often sees is one of our cats

I do not think he fancies the cats....should I?

lovelysongbird · 06/08/2008 00:27

well can someone actually tell me what a swedish massage is?

PinkTulips · 06/08/2008 00:28

'Someone answered that earlier on- apparantley for a man it doesn't matter if the massuer is male or female . What I don't get is, how come men get turned on by a massage - by what it seems like from anyone - but women don't get turned on by having a massage by some random person - whether it be male or female? '

omg, i soooo do. if anyone at all so much as runs their fingers along my back i practiaclly come always have.

tis great for dp as all he has to do no matter how much not in the mood i am is offer me a massage and i'm his

thumbwitch · 06/08/2008 01:31

I'm not sure whether to share this or not but here goes anyway - when I was a shiny-faced new massage therapist, a client came for a treatment. He preferred to be massaged naked and with no towels. I was a bit about this but thought, hey, I'm a big girl now and a professional, I can deal with this, if anything dodgy happens I'll just slap his chap with the towel as suggested by our tutors, or leave the room until he has calmed down again.

So, I was massaging his thigh, keeping a weather eye open for any dubious erectile movement (none) when he bloody well ejaculated! Soooo wrong.

I said "oh, does that often happen" and he said "yes, sometimes" - he seemed thoroughly unembarrassed by it, so I just wiped his leg with couch roll (eww, I know) and carried on with his massage.

I canvassed opinion (male friends and colleagues) as to what this meant and concluded that it was NOT sexual, just a strange physiological reaction - my massage tutor told me that he had a client who had this reaction to massage as well, regardless of whether the massage therapist was male or female.

But I still sacked him as a client, on the grounds that if he knew this was likely to happen, he should have kept his underpants on. Rude not to.

BTW: the massage I do is not particularly sensuous, it's generally deep tissue therapeutic.

notcitrus · 06/08/2008 01:32

songbird - Swedish massage is just the style of actions used - lots of pressing and kneading of muscles (traditionally very much a set number of each stroke, only that's not very relaxing so masseurs generally tweak it so they do more on tense areas or where you're making appreciative noises), no pressing on joints or pressure points.

And yes, women can get turned on too - it's often nothing to do with the practicioner - I find I just need them pressing in certain places and, oops...

I did my massage qualification in my last year at college and we all had to practice on each other a lot - we all had to just get used to getting unwanted arousal in front of each other!

Twelvelegs · 06/08/2008 02:53

Erections and being aroused are not always the same thing for men are they?

moondog · 06/08/2008 05:32

'stiffy' is a top word.
I resolve to use it more oftem.
Amsure dh will approve heartily.

lovelysongbird · 06/08/2008 11:20

non citrus thanks
so if you have an all over massage, full body, does that mean everywhere bums norks willies fanjos

OrmIrian · 06/08/2008 11:22

Course he did. Is it really that surprising? Nowt to do with the therapist I suspect.

VictorianSqualor · 06/08/2008 11:25

This thread was resolved in January!

notcitrus · 06/08/2008 14:03

songbird - full body is usually everything with muscle, so includes your bum ('gluteals') but not breasts or penis, and won't go too far up your inner thighs!

The therapist should tell you to only take off the clothes you're comfortable with and then work round what's left - commonly people leave their pants on so you ask if it's OK to push them down a little so you can tuck them in a towel (so no oil gets on them) and reach the base of the spine. Breasts will be covered by a towel while they work on the front of the body, and generally all of you that isn't being worked on at the time will be draped or wrapped in towels to keep you warm and not feeling so naked.

Learning massage is easy - most of a professional course is learning how not to do your back in and how to reassure the client with proper towel etiquette etc.

lovelysongbird · 06/08/2008 14:13

not citrus, ive never had a full body before as i thought they would massage my boobies !
i think i'll try one now

notcitrus · 06/08/2008 14:36

songbird - they should only do what you want, and explain everything first. What many women do is keep their bra on with the straps pushed down - the therapist can then undo it to do your back and do it up again before you turn over, and then it's obvious which bits you don't want touched. But generally you only work on the lymph ducts at the tops of the breasts anyway.

More people hate their tummy being massaged than anything else! But works a treat for stomachache or constipation.

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