I had been playing tennis for several years without any 'side effects', but about six months ago I started getting pains in my back after half-an-hour or so of playing. My playing partner suggested I go to this sports masseur he knew, who was supposedly fantastic. I made an appointment and the following Friday at 10 am precisely I turned up at his massage parlour. It was the first time I'd had any sort of massage, so I didn't know what to expect. His name was Charles and he was a well-built man in his late thirties or early forties and he started by asking me the usual things like how long had I been playing tennis, when did the pains start to appear, could I associate them with an particular physical movement, and so on. The he asked me to strip off down to my boxer shorts and lie face downwards on the bed. His placed his hands either side of my spine below my neck and, using three fingers of each hand to press gently into my flesh, gradually worked his way downwards. Then he reversed the process, returning to my neck.
"Yes, I can feel the tension. You have nothing physically wrong here, but you are too tense."
"Yes, I suppose I am a tense sort of person -- I tend to get het up over little things, particularly at work."
"What do you do to wind down?"
"Play tennis."
"Anything else?"
"I read a bit, watch TV, listen to music..."
"What about your sex life?"
"My sex life? Gosh, not much going there at the moment. I'm what you might call 'between girlfriends'."
"So when was the last time you had an orgasm?"