Universal Medicine detractions, retractions, titillations & gossip March 2018

by Eunice J Minford MA FRCS Ed. Consultant General Surgeon, N.Ireland

Breast Massage – it must be sexual, right?

It’s interesting isn’t it, how the insertion of one word can significantly alter our perception and approach to massage. There is no issue with saying back massage, leg massage, head massage, foot massage, hand massage – there is no laughter, ridicule, guffawing, innuendo…  EBM Quackery & Titillation

Penis massage.

Testicle massage.

Eunice has never heard of the term ‘massage parlour‘.

They lead a sheltered life, these Esoterics…

– we pretty much accept that all these areas can be and are massaged and can have a beneficial effect on the body – but as soon as we mention the word ‘breasts’ – the shutters come down, we back off and perhaps think ‘no way’, ‘not on my body’ or those of a different gender endeavour to sexualise it, make jokes, innuendo comments & ridicule – showing they haven’t really moved past the schoolboy age of ten where breasts are concerned; titillation (pun intended) being the order of the day. Yet, given we can have beneficial effects from massage on many other parts of the body, surely it’s also possible that esoteric breast massage can assist us with our healing and self-caring approach to our health?

Even though there is absolutely NOTHING sexual about an Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM),

If Eunice feels it to be so, it must be the truth.

the media and others, including conventional doctors, immediately assume there is, or must be and that anyone promoting or partaking in such a modality must be dodgy, perverted, into quackery, on a ruse or have a few screws loose…  Universal Medicine have been vilified and ridiculed by the media and castigated by those who are ignorant about the technique, how it works energetically and its energetic benefits…it is a technique that is only performed by women on women…

‘Energetic’ being a synonym for hoax, imaginary, contrived, or bullshit.

Of course, some will say the difference between head, leg, back, foot, hand massage, and breast massage is that the breasts are used for sexual pleasure and the other areas are not. There speaks someone who is missing out on other erogenous zones of the body in their private life! Of course, this is not part of the professional massage technique for these other areas, but it is naive to think that only the breasts are zones of arousal or sexual pleasure. 

Someone needs to introduce Eunice to the law. (It’s a temporal thing.) You can be charged with assault for touching someone against their wishes. You can’t be charged with sexual or indecent assault for touching someone’s foot against their wishes. (Provided it’s with your hands and not an erogenous part of your body.)

Not only that, but the quality that a practitioner (be it a doctor, nurse or physio) lives, comes with them to a session. So someone who lives with a high degree of personal responsibility and integrity will bring those qualities to the session. And someone who, for example, does a lot of porn carries that energy with them to the session. So your everyday masseuse giving you a back massage can lace you with sexual energy if they do a lot of porn without going near any sexual organ or zone!

What?

Anyway, see above. Legal standpoint. We’ve already heard UM claim people have been sexually abused for partaking in consensual sex which they enjoyed. UM had the gall to make the claim to a woman who baulked at having her breasts groped. Now we’re seeing UM claim that using ‘energetic healing’ as an excuse to fondle breasts, and for UM’s mercenary enablers to fantasize about breast groping, isn’t ‘sexual’ – it’s ‘medicine’.

They’ve got it arse about.

Esoteric arse massage?

Sexual Preference of the Practitioner

The vagina is also utilised in sex, but people do not think their gynaecologist is going to get off on performing vaginal examinations; it is accepted as a necessary part of looking after one’s body to have regular smears and vaginal examination when needed to investigate symptoms. Whether a doctor is a lesbian, or heterosexual male or not is irrelevant, as it is a professional examination and very much distinguished from one’s personal life and any crossing of that boundary instigates disciplinary procedures. Similarly, a urologist may need to examine the testicles, prostate and penis, but he/she does not need to declare his/her sexual preference beforehand. Being a gay man or heterosexual woman does not exclude them from being a urologist – and quite rightly so.  Esoteric Breast Massage – Quackery and titillation or transformational healing modality 

Medical practitioners have legitimate medical reasons for examining those parts of the body, and performing procedures on them, that serve legitimate and proven medical purposes and yield measurable medical results. They are only registered to do so after years supervised study at officially recognized institutions and they are required to comply with national laws at risk of deregistration and prosecution.

If doctors started going both hands on breasts and telling women they were helping them to ‘reconnect with the sacredness of their cervix’, they’d be before the medical board. Deservedly. With criminal charges as a chaser.

Esoteric Breast Massage – ‘lovingly’ applied – Foundational Breast Care site

Esoteric Breast Massage is a grubby scam. Women are misled into signing consent forms that can’t possibly be legally binding.

Descriptions of the procedure on UM’s promo sites also describe it in the same terms inhabitants of the real world recognize as sexual seduction. Candles, mood music, scented creams.

She started the session with some Esoteric Connective Tissue Therapy, which allowed me to relax and go deeper into my body. Soon, I had virtually forgotten that I was about to have an EBM. She tenderly moved the towel, which was covering my chest, to one side to expose my right breast. I was still feeling wonderfully relaxed. As she delicately placed massage cream around my breast, I felt at ease. I was doing well. I felt wholly supported and respected. The love in the room was palpable.

The massage was slow and gentle and moved in lovely big anti clockwise circles around my breast.  Women in Livingness blog

Eunice continues:

Likewise, those performing Esoteric Breast Massage do not get off on breast massage – and again whether they are a lesbian or a heterosexual woman does not matter,

It matters if women have to be persuaded into it, they’re reassured it’s only practised by women, and they find out later the practitioner’s a lesbian, her cohort can’t keep their hands off each other, and have bizarre beliefs about sex and consent. That’s not informed consent. It’s a con. It’s a bogus therapy that has no legitimate health benefits and that is not made clear.

as it is a non-sexual technique performed professionally and definitely not for any self-gratification, sexual or otherwise. So clearly, as is well established in the practice of medicine, a practitioner of medicine or Esoteric Breast Massage does not need to declare their sexual preference.  The technique is definitely not about sexual pleasure for the practitioner or the recipient. One only has to experience the technique from a Universal Medicine trained practitioner to know this to be so. That said, it is a technique performed by women only, because of the nature and sensitivity of the technique, respect for the client and the depth of healing that can be attained by a woman who has cleared similar issues and reconnected to her sacredness and can offer that same depth of healing to her client.

Regardless of the practitioner’s sexual preference, it’s still groping breasts under a pretence at ‘healing’, plus an earful of damaging nonsense.

I skimmed the rest. It’s the usual insufferable UM crap. Minford has been at this for years. And the disclaimer at the end is insufficient. It needs to say there are no proven health benefits, and none likely, that the modality was devised by a bloke who has no qualifications, is based in quasi-religious occult beliefs, it comes with indoctrination spiels, and the author has a longstanding religious and ideological investment in UM. Anything less than full disclosure is insufficient.

Happy International Women’s Day.

DISCLAIMER: Esoteric breast massage is a complementary therapy and is not part of conventional ‘evidence based medicine’. No claims are made as to its efficacy on physical health conditions. The author writes from personal experience combined with an understanding of Esoteric healing, Esoteric philosophy and energy. It is for the reader to discern whether Esoteric Breast Massage is, or could possibly be, of benefit to a woman’s wellbeing. Any concerns regarding your breasts or your health should be discussed with your doctor.  Esoteric Breast Massage – Quackery and titillation or transformational healing modality 

Unpacking Universal Medicine videos

Stay tuned. It’s likely to be a busy month with lots of developments.

In case you missed it, UM contractors, The Co-Creative – Jonathan Baldwin, Rebecca and Simon Asquith, and Clayton Lloyd, have submitted their third copyright infringement takedown notice to YouTube, meaning episodes two to four of my Unpacking UM and the Way of the Livingness documentaries have been taken down. They did not act on the first two take down notices, so the first two videos were restored. I wrote about it in my Panic Censorship post, with the lurid legal threats UM tried last month. They were so serious about trying to bully me to take them down, they shunted Paula Fletcher aside to hire a scary media lawyer. If UM are silly enough to take legal action to try and keep them down, I’ll defend it. In spades. I already have a big bunch of media lawyers on my team, and we’ll go for costs as well.

Whether it’s a matter of weeks or months, I’ll let you know when they’re back and they’ll also be automatically restored to the playlist.