I admit I don't get the whole sexual innuendo (or not innuendo) thing with a therapist (a less erotic situation than therapy I cannot imagine - for me) and sometimes some of the descriptions by CE remind me of In Therapy with Paul and his therapist Gina and the new woman therapist Adele(?). It does seem somewhat a conventional take on male/female interaction where the man believes he has every right to comment on a woman's appearance, every woman is either a mother/virgin or lover/*****, and that the woman is going to care about the man's opinion of her. Also that the woman's appearance should be appealing to a man. Here it is therapy and presumably the therapist is willing to keep dealing with CE and it is being experienced as therapeutic by him. While not the way I do therapy (mine being somewhat hostile but impersonal to the therapist herself) (and the therapist I see does not blink about the hostility and has said it is good that I am letting her know how I feel) - it is no stranger to me as a concept than any other description people have of what goes on between them and the therapist. I would not put up with any number of things people on here do (and even see as evidence of caring or good professional behavior) from their therapists. But if it is working for that client and therapist, then have at it.