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Originally Posted by comrademoomoo
I am not advocating for this kind of therapy. I was just interested in why we are reacting so strongly against it. There is a curious nuance to be looked at between accepting emotional intimacy and rejecting body intimacy from paid professionals. After all, if we have experienced sexual abuse, we have experienced emotional abuse. Anyway. Nevermind. As you were.
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I'm not sure about this. For me, and apparently many others, accepting emotional intimacy is bloody difficult as well. Precisely because of past emotional abuse, probably. And it stings quite a bit to know that any such intimacy is dependent on being able to pay the other person for it. Although, technically the professional is paid for their expertise rather than the intimacy
But I think emotional involvement is generally a more regular / unavoidable part of everyday life, whereas touch and especially sexuality is very restricted, lots of taboos about them.