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Moving Massage from Acceptability to Accessibility

by David Palmer | Jan 9, 2012 | Bodywork, Politics

For as long as people have been paying for therapeutic massage services, practitioners have feared being mistaken for prostitutes. That fear was the primary driving force that, in 1983, led the American Massage Therapy Association to re-brand “massage” into “massage...

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