HUG ABUSE
Professional ‘cuddle therapist’ accused of sexual misconduct after her NIPPLE ‘ended up’ in a female client’s mouth for five minutes
A CUDDLE therapist has been accused of sexual misconduct after her nipple allegedly ended up in a female client’s mouth for five minutes.
The unnamed woman complained professional cuddler Susanne Woodward asked her to suckle her breast during a £66 therapy session in May.
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The woman, from Phoenix in Arizona, said she began seeing Woodward for treatment of sexual trauma.
A complaint written to state regulators and cited by read: "She told me she would be able to help me with my sexual trauma and help me find my voice.
"She insisted that it would not be sexual and that clothing would be on at all times."
The woman admitted she had told Woodward it had always been her dream to be held naked by a woman.
'JUST BETWEEN US'
She said Woodward told her it be would outside her boundaries as a therapist and "it would have to be between us."
On her fourth and final cuddle session, the woman alleged Woodward told her: "I can hold you, how you want."
She claims both women removed their tops and the therapist told her to rest her head on her breasts.
The woman wrote in the complaint: "She then told me to suck her nipple."
She added that Woodward told her: "I am channelling nurturing energy to you through my breast."
She then told me to suck her nipple.
Complainant
When the session concluded, the therapist allegedly told her client the time was up "but I will give you five extra minutes for free."
Woodward, who has been a licensed massage therapist since 2008, contended it was the client's suggestion to cuddle without clothing and it was the client who initiated contact with her breast.
'CONTACT CONSENSUAL'
Woodward maintained the conduct was consensual and said the client told her she felt "so good" after the session and even booked another for the following week.
Her attorney Flynn Carey wrote to the Arizona State Board of Massage Therapy and conceded that, in retrospect, the therapist recognised she should have declined the client's request for additional contact and should have implemented professional and personal boundaries.
Carey argued that cuddling is beyond the board's regulatory authority because the woman was a cuddle client, not a massage client.
He said if the board took jurisdiction of the matter, they "are actually going to be now the massage therapy board and the cuddle therapy board."
The woman who filed the complaint contacted Tempe police, but was told nothing illegal had occurred.
The board found no violation of massage practice but ordered Woodward to separate her cuddling business from her massage business.
Woodward reportedly told the board in July that she has closed her cuddling business.
She said: "I don’t want any confusion in one area to compromise or define me as a massage therapist."
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