Slang dictionary
happy ending massage
[hap-ee en-ding muh-sahzh]
What does聽happy ending massage mean?
Content warning: The following article contains references to sexual language, which are included because they document the real-world use of this term.
A happy ending massage is a massage that starts with the usual full-body rubdown but ends with a sex act, usually a hand job or a blowjob.
Related words:
- erotic massage
- foot job
- table shower
Where does happy ending massage come from?
In literature, a happy ending describes a story where the heroes achieve the best possible outcome and wrap up loose ends while forest animals look on in approval.听In the world of erotic massage, however, a happy ending is entirely different, illegal in most places, and definitely not suitable for innocent animals.
Erotic massage has been around for centuries. Ancient Greek doctors prescribed it to patients, for instance, and it remains an important part of contemporary Tantric practice. Calling a hand job or blowjob at the end of a traditional message a聽happy ending, on the other, um, hand, is a 20th-century innovation. Erotic massage moved away from the realm of medicine and spirituality and into fly-by-night massage parlors, brothels, and prostitution fronts, and by 1999, a Weekend Australian article had described a massage parlor as providing 鈥渁 guaranteed 鈥�happy ending鈥�”听and the term was born.
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The slang term spread in the 2000s, when happy ending messages became stereotyped as a service offered at Asian massage parlors or in late-night Bangkok backrooms. And, law enforcement occasionally make headlines by busting illicit erotic parlors (and their customers).
Happy ending massages are often the subject of popular humor. A 2005 episode of the TV comedy聽Robot Chicken, for example,聽played on the stereotype of the Asian masseuse offering a happy ending. The happiness came not from a sad, spiritless hand job, but from the hot, deep-fried goodness of egg rolls. Yum.
Examples of happy ending massage
Who uses happy ending massage?
Massage providers who offer erotic services may use happy ending to discreetly offer their services, and their clients may use the phrase to request said services. 亚洲网紅露点 to the wise, gentleman: Don’t go to a regular massage parlor and ask or expect a happy ending.听
ME: is this one of those “happy ending” massage parlors?
MASSEUSE: sure is
[later]MASSEUSE: *closing oversized storybook* …and they all lived happily ever after
ME: *snoring peacefully*
鈥� Andrew 馃悪 (@DrCephalopod)
Happy ending is also a euphemism for people online who are seeking out erotic massage services and reviewing them on forums like Rubmaps or the now-defunct Backpage.
I’m going to open up a happy ending massage parlor for women only. I’ll find a loophole in the law.
鈥� Natalie Nightwolf (@NattyNightwolf)
Outside of illicit erotic massages, romantic partners may refer to happy ending massages in the privacy of their own homes. No need to know more about that.
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