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Butch’s Continuing Education (CE) Classes for Massage Practitioners
Upcoming Personal Safety for Massage Practitioners (CE) Class This class focuses on what massage practitioners can do to stay safe in their workplaces. The class is 2.5 hours long and satisfies 2.5...
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Internet Safety for Massage Practitioners: Password No-No’s
This blog post is part of a series on Internet Safety for Massage Practitioners. Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper comment about secure passwords (33 seconds). Massage Practitioners handle plenty of...
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Just Say No To Western Union
Some time back, I received an e-mail from a man claiming to be from England and traveling through China. The gist of his message was that he and his wife would soon be here in town on vacation, and he...
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Facebook Combat League
I recently wasted fifteen minutes of my life I won’t get back watching a new television show, The Robot Combat League. I’m guessing its modeled after a movie that was out awhile back where contestants...
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Upcoming Ethics (NCBTMB) (CE) Class & MassageNerd.tv
Upcoming Ethics (NCBTMB) (CE) Class Title: Massage & Prostitution -What’s going on? This fascinating and informative class satisfies 5 hours of the Washington State ethics requirement. Saturday,...
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Weary Massage Workers of Cambodia
The attached article from the Jakarta Globe about Cambodia’s Weary Massage Workers serves as a reminder of how fortunate we are here in America and also provides insight into the desperation that can...
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Unique Strategies & Solutions
In the past, I have commented on the program that the Bellevue, Washington police department has successfully used to go after illicit massage businesses in their community. Through this strategy they...
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The Client List & Who Cares
At age 62, it’s more and more difficult to keep up with pop culture, though I have found that if I can just manage to notice the obvious once in a while, others may think I’m really “with it.” I mean,...
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Timing is Everything – Tea & Doughnuts
The Bellingham Petri Dish This has been an interesting week to say the least and a trip up north to Bellingham, Washington, to talk about illicit massage ended up serving as a metaphor for itself....
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Personal Safety Series # 6 (Have a Plan)
Background This is part of an ongoing series on personal safety intended to promote both thought and discussion. These posts are a small part of the classes I teach and I feel that setting the ideas...
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MassageNerd
Background Having a message that may resonate for others is nice, however getting it to where it can be heard, contemplated and hopefully turned into something actionable at some point is something...
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Ethics CE Classes Online Update
We have added two new ways to find our Ethics “Roles & Boundaries” CE Online Classes. Our $15 one-hour CE classes can now also be found at the following websites: AMTA Website Find Touch Website...
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Online CEs
At 62 the world that surrounds me is not even remotely familiar to the 26 year old who started his law enforcement career in September 1976. By now I have been asked hundreds of times about how I went...
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PEDs & Massage
Ever wonder what steroids in baseball and illicit massage have in common? Quite a lot, as it turns out. This last week has been a challenging one for the 513-hour Chinese student program at Bellevue...
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Personal Safety Considerations are Important for Massage Therapists
As we continue to move forward with our efforts to address the issues of illicit massage through information and legislation we want to also acknowledge that we do not do this work alone. These efforts...
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Plea Deal Nets Grant 25 Years
Today, May 7th, 2014, at 9:00 am Danford Grant got to play attorney for one last time. Standing in front of Superior Court Judge William Downing, in a suit and tie on the 7th floor of the King County...
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Sexual Massage and Demand Potential
The dynamic that exists between supply and demand is a simple and yet complex relationship that exists in business models everywhere. No matter the product or service it’s like the age old quandary...
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Are Franchises Our Death Star?
I sometimes get a little heat from massage practitioners who fear that negativity and fear are too big a part of my content. I understand that, in fact I have thought about adding a disclaimer letting...
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The Value of Site Surveys
For several years now I have on occasion conducted what I refer to as site surveys of different communities or regions to try and accurately assess the nature and severity of illegal activities as they...
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Cashing A Reality Check
I was going to do a piece this week on the “Five Stages of Screaming” in an effort to speak to how therapists respond to the issues around illicit massage, but after hearing a few people of late rail...
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