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allthegirls6 said:
Threads like this drive me nuts because before you know whats happened, all touch with a therapist is being condemned. Someone said that a kiss, no matter where it was, is innappropriate. What a lot of rubbish. My T kisses me on the cheek, shes a woman and obviously I am too. There is nothing sexual about it, its an expression of genuine love from one person to another. It just bugs me the way we always seem to end up throwing the baby out with the bath water. I dont know if its different in the USA, but things are very different here in the UK. I actually touch my therapist and she touch us back. We hug, hold, she kisses my cheek and guess what, when ive been really upset she has pulled me in close and stroked my hair.

A kiss on the lips is bang out of order, but lets not start deciding that all touch is wrong

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In America, kissing with your psychologist ANYWHERE, male or female, is absolutely unethical. We don't kiss people in standard greeting here like France does, and even if we did it wouldn't be with our psychologists, or any other healthcare provider. You don't express love in that volatile way with a psychologist in North America, Canada included. I'm not even so sure that it's standard practice in UK either, but rest assured I will look it up.

FYI--- you are a female, and your T is a female. Barring homosexuality, it is much less likely for the "kiss" to be sexualized or taken in a way it wasn't meant to. However, in the situation in question, the patient was a female and the PDOC/T was a male. Quite a different scenario.

I don't believe that any of us said that "all touch is wrong" as you seem to believe.
Quite frankly, your post gives me the heebie jeebies.