Recently, massage therapists have been quite upset at Apple computers. It seems their new personal assistant for the iPhone4s has been directing people to them for sex.
As some massage therapist found out, when someone asks Siri, iPhone's personal assistant, "where can I get a happy ending?", it comes up with a list of nearby massage therapists. Now, a happy ending is a sex act at the end of massage. To be very blunt in specific, it is a blow job.
Considering that massage therapy has been licensed in the state of Florida under the Board of Health since 1934, and is finally starting to become accepted as healthcare, it really hurts the profession when a company as big as Apple through whatever screw-up they have can direct people to us for something other than what were here for. Yes, there are a lot of seedy massage parlors in every city in the country, and people go there expecting sex. But, that is not performed by licensed professionals that spend hundreds of hours in classes and clinicals to achieve the license awarded by the state and given through the Board of Health.
Every time police raid a massage studio and take away people that are doing sexual acts it hurts the entire profession. I personally felt very offended when I heard about this. As much as I worked to achieve the level of skill that I have, and to put out the proper energies to let people know that I'm here to help them heal, help them achieve what they may have lost their accident or injury, when someone points to my business as a sex parlor it hurts me and the entire profession. And it is not just a little hurt, it is three steps backwards because we've taken so long to achieve the status and understanding of what we are in the eyes of the public.
I mean, I go out of my way to show the demeanor of confidence in caring that lets my clients know that they will be healed within the best of my ability, and that I care, and that I am safe and trustworthy. When someone demeans the profession, it takes away from all that.
Through online petitions and such, Apple has corrected the problem. I, personally, would've liked to see it hit the national news, but it did not. At any rate, it's fixed.