Electra,
Thank you very much for you detailed response. It's somewhat refreshing to find someone that has the patience, interest, or ability to communicate so well and so clearly.
What you said about true non-sexual cuddling fits what I understood about it as well. I have to admit that I find the concept quite interesting, though I also think that it would take some practice and perhaps retraining to not immediately equate intimacy in such an environment with sex. It's somewhat sad that our culture has warped natural human contact so that the healing nature of nurturing cuddling is more or less non-existent.
Of course I also generally relate FAR better to women, and tend to have far more non-sexual female friends than I do male friends. I would find male-male cuddling fine for someone else to do, but extremely uncomfortable for me. I'm not sure what that says about my personality. Couple that with my appreciation for female breasts, large and small, and I am sure a psyc major would have a field day with me LOL.
Perhaps I'm what most in this community would consider a real square, but I've been seeing an RMT for close to two decades now. While I find it works best if I am naked under my draping, I have never suggested moving beyond a strictly professional, non-sexual relationship with them. It's natural to develop a friendship of course, but that again is different from sexual or romantic relationship. Regardless, for me, deep tissue massage is a therapeutic modality that works better for me than any other treatment including chiropractic, and perhaps from that perspective it's important that I guard the relationship.
That said, I do have an extremely strong sex drive, so I completely understand how one could enjoy bridging the two, it's just not something I have done to date. With the right person, in the right circumstances and with a clear understanding between the parties I could see the progression or overlap being most enjoyable indeed.
I appreciate your comment that an SP wouldn't normally offer a service that they don't want to provide. I suppose realistically, most SP's probably end up offering more services of a sexual nature than they prefer if anything, rather than the reverse, due to the "horney people with money" aspect driving things forwards.
Thank you again for all of your thoughts. They do indeed help
