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A review by scarletine6
Le Cœur en balance by Marie Sexton
1.0
All kinds of nope!
Anyone who has experience of working in Massage Therapy knows that they can find themselves in vulnerable positions and they need to stay safe. Working intimately with someone else's body in a therapeutic context can make some clients feel like the touch is sexual. Massage therapists have VERY strict boundaries. If a client starts to hit on them or touches them, they stop and leave the room. The client/therapist relationship is severed.
Massage Therapists are holistic professionals, not masseurs who offer happy endings! The observations of the therapeutic process in this story outraged me from the get-go.
Levi is a thirty-year-old. He is not just a promiscuous gay man with a pain in his back hitting on his much younger massage therapist- he is a sexual predator.
I was disgusted that he tried to hit on his therapist from the start of their professional relationship and every time Jamie said no Levi kept going. Levi is a disgusting character and I just wanted to slap him. He is exactly what the #metoo movement is all about- men not knowing- or caring about boundaries and abusing power so they can get off.
Jamie was a victim of childhood sexual abuse and this made the fact that Levi kept hitting on him in a therapeutic situation- and ignoring the rejection of his advances even worse. This was not a realistic, well-observed scenario, and I was appalled at Levi's behavior. I had to stop listening after an hour or so. I did not want to hear how these two got together because I would not want to know about how a promiscuous sexual predator seduced a young man recovering from sexual abuse.
I had to DNF.
Anyone who has experience of working in Massage Therapy knows that they can find themselves in vulnerable positions and they need to stay safe. Working intimately with someone else's body in a therapeutic context can make some clients feel like the touch is sexual. Massage therapists have VERY strict boundaries. If a client starts to hit on them or touches them, they stop and leave the room. The client/therapist relationship is severed.
Massage Therapists are holistic professionals, not masseurs who offer happy endings! The observations of the therapeutic process in this story outraged me from the get-go.
Levi is a thirty-year-old. He is not just a promiscuous gay man with a pain in his back hitting on his much younger massage therapist- he is a sexual predator.
I was disgusted that he tried to hit on his therapist from the start of their professional relationship and every time Jamie said no Levi kept going. Levi is a disgusting character and I just wanted to slap him. He is exactly what the #metoo movement is all about- men not knowing- or caring about boundaries and abusing power so they can get off.
Jamie was a victim of childhood sexual abuse and this made the fact that Levi kept hitting on him in a therapeutic situation- and ignoring the rejection of his advances even worse. This was not a realistic, well-observed scenario, and I was appalled at Levi's behavior. I had to stop listening after an hour or so. I did not want to hear how these two got together because I would not want to know about how a promiscuous sexual predator seduced a young man recovering from sexual abuse.
I had to DNF.