When I saw this article: Women get massages with ‘happy endings’ too two things came to mind.

First, I remembered the time one acquaintance was aghast that the female therapist in the massage salon in Jabriya had offered to make her feel like she has never felt before (sexually that is) and openly admired her body. My acquaintance never went back despite having paid for a course of massages.

Second, I remembered the only amusing part of the film Don’t Mess with the Zohan.  Zohan, the hairdresser, takes to pleasuring the female clientele as part of the hairstyling appointment. The sexual encounter is represented by loud noises coming from behind the rocking salon walls, and items falling off the shelves as the other hairdressers go on with their work.

Back to the linked article. Massages can be intimate but gratifying encounters that border precariously on the sexual if one does not maintain a certain restraint.  I wonder if “happy endings” are indeed the unspoken new trend.