It's easy to think the perception your town has of massage is the same the world over but it isn't true. Although the United States has worked hard to make massage professional, in other parts of the world it is still more associated with sex than professionalism. If you try to find a good professional massage (as I did) in Amsterdam, for example, it is difficult to tell which massage therapist is a professional therapist and which one works in the world's oldest profession. This is apparently even more common in the Far East.
It's easy to think the perception your town has of massage is the same the world over but it isn't true. Although the United States has worked hard to make massage professional, in other parts of the world it is still more associated with sex than professionalism. If you try to find a good professional massage (as I did) in Amsterdam, for example, it is difficult to tell which massage therapist is a professional therapist and which one works in the world's oldest profession. This is apparently even more common in the Far East.
