Another day, another few feet down the slippery slope!
Sorry, but this article isn't satire.
Atkinson, New Hampshire, residents have started a Change.org petition to have a new diaper spa that opened in their town removed. The spa caters to "littles," grown ups that like to participate in regressive play, donning diapers and pretending to be infants or toddlers.
This business is advertised to individuals whose sexual fetish involves childlike behaviors. This business, per their website, has advertised our town playground to their potential clientele. Thus their sexual fetish will involve the town park where our children play.
The diaper spa is run by a sex therapist named Dr. Colleen Murphy.
Murphy said she understands that some people might find this unusual type of treatment strange.
'I don't ask them to understand,' she said. 'You know it would be nice if they did but we're not all going to understand other people's needs and lifestyle.'
And, the spa's policies specify that,
... there is ABSOLUTELY NO Sexual Interaction.
But the people of Atkinson remain unconvinced that Dr. Murphy and her "littles" are not a threat to their town and their children.
And to be fair, their concerns are not without merit.
In addition to running a spa with adults running around in diapers, Dr. Murphy also runs a clinic that provides surrogate partner therapy.
What is surrogate partner therapy?
Let's let Dr. Murphy explain it.
Surrogate Partner Therapy is a powerful, co-creative experience to heal trauma and foster strong intimacy/life skills. In a structured, safe, and nurturing environment with a verbal therapist and a trained professional surrogate partner therapist working in collaboration.
Working with each of these therapists, and with the therapists communicating together, the client is able to freely explore any issues that have prevented them from living the joyous and intimately connected life that they dream of and deserve.
That would be a good example of defining a word using the word.
Maybe it would be better to ask a surrogate partner therapist like Matt Shattuck what it is.
'A professional who uses touch, breathwork, mindfulness, relaxation exercises, and social skill training to help a client meet their specific therapy goals,"'explains Shattuck.
Sometimes — he says in his experience it's about 15 to 20 percent of the time — partner surrogacy includes intercourse. 'But that all depends on the issue the client is working through,' he says.
So, in essence, prostitution?
I guess that explains this legal disclaimer on Dr. Murphy's sex therapy site:
It is not uncommon for uninformed individuals to jump to the inaccurate conclusions that SPT is in some way unethical [or] illegal. ... These assumptions are the product of imagination, not fact. For at least the last twenty-five years California legislature, legal authorities, and the administrative bodies that regulate the practice of therapy have been aware of SPT. On the rare occasions when they have had occasion to study the question, they have indicated that there is nothing illegal or unethical about SPT as an adjunct to psychotherapy. Like carrying a purple purse, unless used in ways for which it is not intended, SPT is unregulated and completely legal.
Dr. Murphy, therapeutic pimp?
To summarize: A sex "therapist" opens a Diaper Spa for adults who have child fetishes, down the street from a local playground, but there's nothing to worry about.
Did I mention Dr. Murphy also writes and illustrates children's books?
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