u/SelfProphecy

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Is this normal? ‘traditional Chinese massage’

First time ever posting to Reddit, wasn’t sure where else to go with this. Went for a massage today, 90 minute session. I had never had a traditional Chinese massage before so in doing some research beforehand it seemed like typically the massage is done either with clothes on or over a sheet. when I got in she asked for payment first which already was a red flag and she left the room, didn’t tell me to get undressed or get on the bed or anything. I stood around for five minutes waiting for her to come back when she came back she seemed a bit confused that I wasn’t on the bed and asked if I was ready. I said oh sorry I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to undress or how to be ready, you didn’t tell me. she spoke basically no English, which is fine, but I feel like if you’re gonna be doing a service like this, you need to be able to at least express the basics in English. She told me to lay down on the bed and started taking my clothes off for me, which felt really uncomfortable. Then throughout the whole massage, she kept pulling the sheet up my butt so my whole butt was just thong out exposed. later she opened the door so I was just on the bed butt out, door open. I don’t think anyone could see if they walked by, but I’m not sure. then later on in the massage some other woman comes in. They’re talking saying something in Chinese. She tells me I’m beautiful and that I have beautiful skin and told me I looked young, too young and asked if I was a teenager to which I said no because I’m not. then throughout the session she kept stretching me in ways I didn’t even know I could be stretched. It was starting to feel uncomfortable. My body is not that flexible. One of the last things she did was a stomach massage which I was turned Face up and I was covered for, but multiple times my breasts were exposed because while she was massaging, the sheet was moving. Then when we finished, they asked if I want tea which I said yes to. she sits down with me while I’m drinking tea tries to chat with me, but again she doesn’t speak any English, so everything I said she kind of just laughed at. Then proceeds to make me pull up the review page and presses the five stars for me and almost seemed like she was gonna sit there and watch me write the review. thankfully she left so I just deleted the review and put my phone away. Makes sense now why they have such high reviews. I don’t know, I feel like the massage was nice and maybe I’m just used to bigger corporations, and Swedish massage. I used to work at Hand and Stone and they’re very on top of making sure people are draped correctly so they’re not feeling over exposed. She also kept hugging me and told me she was so happy to do the massage for me. She seemed nice and I made it out alive, definitely when the second person came in and told me I had beautiful skin, I wasn’t exactly sure if I was gonna make it out. I definitely felt very exposed the whole time and not really sure what to do. Is this normal traditional Chinese massage massages??

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u/SelfProphecy — 1 day ago