Male massage, sometimes a male to male massage, has become very popular in the last 10 years. With male massage, you can enjoy the grooming and relaxation regimens that male massage therapist have to offer. Guys who are uncomfortable with labels that connote ambiguous sexuality should be able to appreciate a spa experience of a male massage without being pigeonholed. Feeling good about oneself through male massage is neither a masculine nor a feminine attribute; it's universally human. Letting go of the idea that men can only feel comfortable with women massage therapist is now in the past.
Male massage. The
word massage has of late years come into general use to signify the method
of treating disease or other physical conditions by manipulating the muscles
and joints. According to Littr the word massage is derived from the Arabic
mass, and male massage has the specific meaning of pressing the muscular
parts of the body with the hands, and exercising traction on the joints
in order to give suppleness and stimulate vitality. Male massage was probably
adopted from the Arabian physicians by the French, who have played a leading
part in reviving the method of male massage and of its treatment, which
male massage has been practiced from time immemorial, and by the most
primitive people, but male massage has from time to time fallen into disuse
among Western nations. In the Odyssey the women are described as rubbing
and kneading the heroes on their return from battle thus giving the male
a massage. In India, under
the name shampoo (tshampud), the same process of male massage has formed
part of the native system of medicine from the most remote times; professional
male massage therapists were employed there by Alexander the Great in
327 B.e. In. China the method using male massage therapists is also of
great antiquity, and practiced by a professional class; the Swedish gymnastic
system instituted by Pehr Henrik Ling is derived from the book of Cong-Fou,
the bonze of Tao-Sse. Hippocrates describes and enjoins the use of male
massage by manipulation, especially in cases of stiff joints, and he was
followed by other Greek physicians in practicing male massage therapy.
Oribasius gives an account of the application of male massage with the
use of friction with the bare hands, which exactly corresponds with the
modern practice of male massage. Among the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians,
and later the Turks, male massage therapy came to be part of the ordinary
procedure of the bath without any special therapeutic intention, and the
usage of male massage has survived until today; but that mode of application
of male massage was no doubt a refinement of civilized life. Medical rubbing
meaning a massage is older and more elementary than bathing, as we see
from its employment by savages. Probably male massage was evolved independently
among different races from the natural instinct shared by the lower animals
which teaches to rub, press or lick any part of the body in which uneasiness
is felt, and massage therapy is therefore the oldest of all therapeutic
means.