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| * Observe **hygiene and safety rules**: wash your hands before and after each session, use disposable paper covers or clean towels to protect the table, cushions, clothes. Work in a safe, clean, ventilated, space. Only use good quality products. | * Observe **hygiene and safety rules**: wash your hands before and after each session, use disposable paper covers or clean towels to protect the table, cushions, clothes. Work in a safe, clean, ventilated, space. Only use good quality products. | ||
| * Be **transparent and honest about your actual qualifications** in care-giving, | * Be **transparent and honest about your actual qualifications** in care-giving, | ||
| - | * Do not give a massage to someone who is not quite sure they want one. Here, like in love, it has to be a **YES**, from the beginning to the end. And you both can stop whenever | + | * Do not give a massage to someone who is not quite sure they want one. Here, like in love, it has to be a **YES**, from the beginning to the end. Anyone |
| * Respect **physical reserves**. No one has to take their clothes off for massage if they don't want to (very good massages can be provided with clothes on). Similarly, if you, the giver, are not comfortable with nudity, you should say so. | * Respect **physical reserves**. No one has to take their clothes off for massage if they don't want to (very good massages can be provided with clothes on). Similarly, if you, the giver, are not comfortable with nudity, you should say so. | ||
| * Because massages induce relaxation of the nervous system, it can sometimes trigger erection or **reactions similar to those of sexual arousal** in both men and women. It's not so frequent that you should worry about it, and besides, it is really nothing to be ashamed of. The masseur/se should bear in mind that however sexual in appearance, these reactions might not be experienced as such by the receiver, and so they should **never be considered as an invitation to act on them**. | * Because massages induce relaxation of the nervous system, it can sometimes trigger erection or **reactions similar to those of sexual arousal** in both men and women. It's not so frequent that you should worry about it, and besides, it is really nothing to be ashamed of. The masseur/se should bear in mind that however sexual in appearance, these reactions might not be experienced as such by the receiver, and so they should **never be considered as an invitation to act on them**. | ||
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