Julie Luther, founder of Soft Touch ASMR Spa in Pasadena, gives the author an ASMR massage. I've never felt weird about paying strangers to touch me. Massages, facials, martial arts — it's all just ...

In our household, scratching reigns supreme. Drew is like a cat—he's always asking to be scratched. I also love a good back scratch, but after a long day of work, there's nothing better than a massage ...

Standing behind a discreet Japanese screen partitioning a small space in one of Texas Instruments’ vast hallways, massage therapist Lynn Street plugs her product. “These chemicals,” she says about the ...

I've never felt weird about paying strangers to touch me. Massages, facials, martial arts — it's all just bodywork to me. That is, until I booked my first professional back scratch with Julie Luther, ...