Back, sack and crack ! Help !

[harmonyholistic]

it is true that men do at times get an erection during a massage it has happened to me on a number of occasions. it did disturb me a little at first. untill one day a male client who was also a friend and i had done his brother in law a couple of weeks before. he told me his brother in law was embarrassed becuase he got an erection during treatment. he told me that his brother in law had said he just couldnt help it. it did make me realise that it was completely involuntary and more embarrassing for client than therapist. i actually felt sorry for him. i agree male clients are incredibly loyal and most times very well behaved. funnily enough i did seam to get more male clients than female. maybe that was because i prefer male clients because im more at ease around men and tend to sell it better to men than women.
although i too have had one bad experience too. would you believe with a police man. lets just say he grabbed me and tried to touch me up but came to his senses when he found his ears ringing from the slap he got. funnily enough i didnt get into any trouble for assaulting a copper. tee hee

 

[SUGARFLICK]

posted by Axiom in 2007, please read the Axiom thread , I do believe that some insurance companies may say "sorry you are not insured, you have not trained to to that!" .....if you were to make a claim, its a very blurred area, check, GET IT IN WRITING , that you are insured without the training, if you do do the treatments your salon is asking you to but I really think it is a bad idea to do any persons' downstairs male or female without training, you just have to know/be aware of what can happen. http://www.salongeek.com/skin-geek/56553-brazilian-waxing-just-video.html

hi my employer wants me to provide this service although i havent had any training in this specific area ( iv done hot wax thou!) am i right in thinking (hoping) i wouldnt be covered on my insurance ? - when i joined the company it wasnt part of the job so im reluctant to take on this service as im worried as to the type of clients it may attract . ( my employer wants to put an add in local newspaper personal adds section !!!!).

 

[WAX inc]

Did you realise that the price list on your website still lists male intimate waxing?[/QUOTE.

 

[chappy]

--I stand by what I said, the comments were as I saw them but it has been clarified. We should now change the subject.

Are there any other geeks who do male waxing, how do you advertise, is it as profitable as others think, how painful is it for the man, how do you put your client at ease if he is nervous?--

Smooth, I agree with you one hundred percent in your posts. I think that many of the posts that are counter male waxing are offensive. I am a male aesthetician who does male and femail intimate waxing. I think we need to take a step back and think about what we are... professionals. You wouldn't see a nurse or doctor refuse to treat patients based on gender. Not that we are trained on the same level as a health professional, my point is that we should be treating our clients with no less level of respect and privacy.

In terms of why men get waxed, granted there may be the odd fellow who may get a sexual kick out of it but they are few and far between. As smooth mentioned motication for intimate waxing is generally one of four things. 1. They are the typical metrosexual who likes to keep up with appearance. 2. There is a healthcare need. Some overweight clients need to wax to keep infections at bay. 3. Bodybuilder - who needs to be hairless. 4. Girlfriend likes it.

I know I'm a newbie and should rant. But I agree with smooth - these comments seems to assume that all men are pervs for wanting to get waxed. Having been waxed I take offense to it. Being a male aesthetician puts a slightly different spin on it.

As far as your questions smooth - I advertise my services in Service Menu as Manscaping. My pricing (as with all waxing) starts with a base price and increases according to hair/anomolies. Speaking from a person who has had it done, it is not so bad. I can think of things that were worse. Probably the same as a brazillian. I have no problem putting my clients at ease. If it is their first time, crack a joke (usually something like are you really attached to your scrotem - it'll grow back). Otherwise we just talk about current events or catch up from the last visit.

 

[chappy]

I trained in male intimate waxing over a year ago and after 6 months of offering the service at my salon i withdrew it . I hated it. It made me feel cheap and sick to my stomach .I was charging £60 so good profit but it was absolutly not worth the distress. I do not want to wax a man with an erection ( and worse )and every single male client I waxed got an erection.not to mention the weirdos phoning my salon and offending my staff. I found this very offensive and my poor partner physically threw up when I told him how upsetting I was finding it.

No offense but I would have to question your training. In my training, we were clearly advised that erections were a definite possibility due to male pysiological reaction to the waxing. While it doesn't happen to all men, about 25% of men will have a physical reaction to waxing, particularly to applying wax to the perineal, areas on either side of the scrotem, and alond the lymph nodes lateral to the pubic symphosis. This is not a sexual reaction - just a reaction. The same thing can happen when a man receives certain medical tests - and they aren't all that pleasant either. I also don't want to scare anyone out there but there are also men who will emit preseminal fluid during waxing as well. This too is not sexual, but rather a physiological reaction.

Believe me when I say that if a guy gets an erection during waxing it is more than likely more embarrasing for him than it is for you.

I also have to wonder where your salon is placed, and what your adverts are like if you are getting that many weirdos phoning.

BTW... when you say your clients would get an erection (or worse)... what do you mean by... or worse?

 

[chappy]

For the geeks who do this type of waxing, do you just ignore the erection or do you just laugh it off if the man mentions it? When we had a tutor coming in teaching some ex staff I had brazillian waxing, she said at one point "let's flip your flaps out" to the model :lol:

I usually get a little more clinical if this happens and explain why it happens and give them some stats on how many others it happens to. Then I try to get them to relax by joking a little. If they are embarassed by it, I find they find the rest of the procedure more painful because they aren't relaxed.

 

[Kim Lawless]

Here in the UK, we are more into the practical and technique more that we are theory and the mechanics of it all. After all, you could write a symphony but if you can't play it……..lot of good it's gonna do ya.

I wax men all day and I specialise in intimate waxing. I'm very lucky as I'm experienced and I love my job and nothing weird happens to me. However, let's not forget that it's not for everybody and it can be very daunting to some…….for various reasons.

If a therapist doesn't want to do mens waxing then that's their choice. Just the same as one not liking feet etc. It's a personal choice and they should be questioned.