EditorialJon Long, an actor and a licensed massage therapist, supports striking members of the Writers Guild of America by offering massages near the picket line outside Fox Studios on the second day of a strike in Los Angeles, May 3, 2023.. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialJon Long, an actor and a licensed massage therapist, supports striking members of the Writers Guild of America by offering massages near the picket line outside Fox Studios on the second day of a strike in Los Angeles, May 3, 2023.. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialA strip mall in Houston, Texas, formerly the site of A New U Spa, which was patronized by the football star Deshaun Watson. (Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystol Benedict gives her thirteen-year-old daughter, Sabrina, a back massage at their home in Homer, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2021. (Libby March/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystol Benedict gives her thirteen-year-old daughter, Sabrina, a back massage at their home in Homer, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2021. (Libby March/The New York Times)
EditorialAn inhabitant of an abandoned factory in Lviv, Ukraine, now home to a community of artists, shares his massage skills on May 15, 2022. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
EditorialA foot massage with a frozen water bottle, which helps minimize pain and inflammation, in New York, April 11, 2022. (Amanda Jasnowski Pascual/The New York Times)
EditorialDeshaun Watson, the NFL quarterback, speaks to reporters after a grand jury rejected all nine criminal complaints presented by prosecutors against him in Houston, March 11, 2022. (Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialMaude’s products — which include vibrators as well as lubricant, massage oil and mineral bath salts — are carried at Bloomingdale’s and Sephora. (Gili Benita/The New York Times)
EditorialCynthia Shi embraces her boyfriend, Graham Bloomsmith, on March 18, 2021, outside Gold Spa in Atlanta, one of three massage businesses where a gunman killed eight people. Six of the victims were of Asian descent, prompting alarm in the nation’s Asian communities. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialMariya Haruna uses warm water to massage the legs of her daughter, Sadiya, who has sickle cell disease, in Kano, Nigeria, Nov. 25, 2021. (KC Nwakalor/The New York Times)
EditorialBlack Friday shoppers take a break on massage chairs at the Castleton Square Mall in Indianapolis on Friday morning, Nov. 26, 2021. (Kaiti Sullivan/The New York Times)