Massage events

[connectbern]

Chagai:
Massage events are usually a little bit tricky, a little bit scary, specifically for girls and specifically when you mix between girls and guys. If you have a guy who just wants more than a massage, or if it feels bad, then it doesn't work. That's why it's best that we do maybe a massage event where girls massage girls or guys massage guys.

Another thing that we can do is we can have a girl organize the event, especially if she's a masseuse, somebody who's professional. These events are probably going to be extremely successful, but we have to market them in a way that is 100% non-sexual so that it's clear to people that it's not a sexual event. The guys are probably going to be massaging guys anyway, and the girls are going to be probably massaging girls.

I think it's a really good concept, something like speed friending, maybe together with massaging: you give someone a massage for two minutes and then another person a massage for two minutes. You learn who you want to give a massage to or who you want to get a massage from, what your type is, and then you could connect with them later and do massage sessions where you exchange massages with people for free. You just have a great experience, a great time, and help your body and just feel good, without having the whole sexual aspect, because we're afraid of that and we don't want to be related to anything like dating or sexuality.

[connectbern]

Manon: it's okay to have guys and girls together. It shouldn't be the focus: girls on girls and guys on guys.

Jana: only people who know each other

Stephanie: small groups

[connectbern]

Manon:
Instead of focusing on guys and girls, which already puts the focus on the sexual aspect, focus on whoever wants to give a massage to someone or get a massage from someone. They could decide who they want to do that with, so it's about preference, not about gender. That way you avoid the gender talk completely, but you also avoid people who feel uncomfortable, which are usually girls and guys. You avoid talking about it and making the topic so clear and weird.

[chagai95]

For example, me, I think we could make the people who know invite some from the outside, just a few, to see how it works. If you make it for the first time, it's better that we are in the closest circle, and then just some people come to see how it goes. I cannot just invite everybody who is a stranger.
Jana

[chagai95]

Stephanie talked about a safe space and marketing it, that you can go to the organizers any time if you don't feel safe.

[chagai95]

Mehmet, based on preference, have a priority in the room you prefer? After that, I want at least three, one of them:

1. First preference
2. Second preference
3. Third preference

[chagai95]

Everybody here? Natural! I think it's natural. With the music, with the light, because it's spiritual, we can put candles. Yes, I think, in the end, it's also a risk. People, we're all adults. The risk you have to take is that this is a massage event; you can't baby everybody.
Yasmine

Yeah, that's why I think, at first, we have to make it more like a closed group, where we know each other more, and maybe a few people from outside, because we can not take everybody from outside. You know, where every creeper is coming, like, "Oh yeah, there is"
Jana

[chagai95]

Stephanie, we take everything out and we have an empty room.