Robert Peters wrote:

>Yesterday evening my lover invited me to a massage session (and she is
>pretty good at it, you know).  She used oil and blankets and her pretty
>hands and music.  The music was Beethoven - but Beethoven as Meditation
>Music.

I'm already envious.

>But today my intellectual and puritan mind tortures me with feelings
>of guilt ;-): is it right to use classical music as a kind of musical
>tranquilizer?

Certainly - do whatever you want with it.

>Is something wrong with me that I actually LIKED this Beethoven for the
>teethless?

Considering Robert's pleasure of receiving a massage, he would likely enjoy
"any" music at the time that had a relaxing atmosphere to it.  It's the
massage, not Beethoven, which is the attraction.

Don Satz
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