I'm posting this as both a service provider who cares deeply about the safety, dignity, and professionalism of our local wellness industry.
In the past few months, my friend and a highly skilled, fully licensed Filipino therapist at Accurat8 Massage—has been experiencing an escalating pattern of inappropriate, degrading, and frankly dangerous behavior from individuals seeking services that have never been, and will never be, offered at her clinic.
This woman is in her 60s, an immigrant who built her life here from scratch as a single mother. She has spent decades giving back to this community: offering extended treatments without charge to people who are struggling, donating to those in need, and using her training in deep tissue, Thai massage, reflexology, and cupping to genuinely *heal* people. She remains deeply grateful to Canada and to Victoria, and she shows that gratitude through her work every single day.I have never met a beautiful human with so much heart like her before.
Yet despite clear signage, strict boundaries, and a fully professional clinic environment, she is being subjected to sexual propositions, explicit phone calls, and men walking into her treatment room naked with cash on the table—assuming she can be talked down, intimidated, or bought. She has had to involve Victoria PD, install additional security, and document every incident just to feel safe doing her job.
This isn’t just disrespectful. It’s racialized, misogynistic, and profoundly damaging to someone who has done nothing but serve this community with integrity.
If you or anyone you know participates in this kind of behavior—intentionally or by ‘testing the waters’—please understand the impact you are having. Not just on one woman, but on every legitimate practitioner whose work is overshadowed by assumptions tied to ethnicity and gender.
There are many awesome well known, well reviewed establishments in Victoria that openly operate in the adult‑service sphere. Whatever your personal choices are, directing that behavior toward a legitimate therapeutic clinic is not only dangerous—it’s cruel.
I’m sharing this here because many of us in PERB are connected, directly or indirectly, to wellness, bodywork, and service professions. Some of you reading this may even be clients of mine. I’m not posting this to shame anyone publicly—but I *am* asking people to take a moment to reflect on the very real harm being done.
Please let this be a wake‑up call. Our practitioners deserve respect. They deserve safety. And they deserve to do their work without being humiliated, objectified, or frightened in the place where they earn their living.
If you are a good human looking for an amazing healer, please see her, but keep your undies on.
In the past few months, my friend and a highly skilled, fully licensed Filipino therapist at Accurat8 Massage—has been experiencing an escalating pattern of inappropriate, degrading, and frankly dangerous behavior from individuals seeking services that have never been, and will never be, offered at her clinic.
This woman is in her 60s, an immigrant who built her life here from scratch as a single mother. She has spent decades giving back to this community: offering extended treatments without charge to people who are struggling, donating to those in need, and using her training in deep tissue, Thai massage, reflexology, and cupping to genuinely *heal* people. She remains deeply grateful to Canada and to Victoria, and she shows that gratitude through her work every single day.I have never met a beautiful human with so much heart like her before.
Yet despite clear signage, strict boundaries, and a fully professional clinic environment, she is being subjected to sexual propositions, explicit phone calls, and men walking into her treatment room naked with cash on the table—assuming she can be talked down, intimidated, or bought. She has had to involve Victoria PD, install additional security, and document every incident just to feel safe doing her job.
This isn’t just disrespectful. It’s racialized, misogynistic, and profoundly damaging to someone who has done nothing but serve this community with integrity.
If you or anyone you know participates in this kind of behavior—intentionally or by ‘testing the waters’—please understand the impact you are having. Not just on one woman, but on every legitimate practitioner whose work is overshadowed by assumptions tied to ethnicity and gender.
There are many awesome well known, well reviewed establishments in Victoria that openly operate in the adult‑service sphere. Whatever your personal choices are, directing that behavior toward a legitimate therapeutic clinic is not only dangerous—it’s cruel.
I’m sharing this here because many of us in PERB are connected, directly or indirectly, to wellness, bodywork, and service professions. Some of you reading this may even be clients of mine. I’m not posting this to shame anyone publicly—but I *am* asking people to take a moment to reflect on the very real harm being done.
Please let this be a wake‑up call. Our practitioners deserve respect. They deserve safety. And they deserve to do their work without being humiliated, objectified, or frightened in the place where they earn their living.
If you are a good human looking for an amazing healer, please see her, but keep your undies on.
