Worried about how many other people have been dismissed the same way? Would you, as a reader, react differently if the incident happened to a registered massage therapist rather than a doctor, an architect or a bartender?
Would it matter? Should it matter? She merely walked out of the room and straight to a police station to report the incident, in hopes the man would be nabbed and so prevented from doing it to another unsuspecting victim.
Instead of serving and protecting, the police officer decided to forego the basic requirements of their job and instead gave her unsolicited life and career advice about what she should expect to experience and learn to live with as a massage therapist.
It is troubling that this police officer appeared to confuse massage therapy that so many of us rely on to cure physical ailments with legal, regulated massage parlours where sexual release is occasionally offered.
While happy endings are legal in Montreal, they are not provided by certified and licensed massage therapists who are closer to physiotherapists in the services they provide and who usually work out of athletic therapy clinics, gyms, and spas.
