Ada Barak

Not for Ophiophobics: Snake Massages

Kirby Marzec, Managing Editor September 30 at 1:00 | Comments

People Paying For Massages From A Snake – Funny bloopers are a click away

Please someone, help me out. What on earth sounds appealing about having a wad of intertwined snakes slither all over your body? Anyone? Oh, right…absolutely nothing. Ask Ada Barak, owner of a carnivorous plant farm in northern Israel, and she will beg to differ. Apparently, the feeling of having the “kneading sensation” of large snakes and the gentle tickle of small snakes sinuate all over your body is supposed to produce “calming and curative effects.” What exactly is calming about wandering snakes, which by the way bite and eat vermin, scoping out the contours of your body?

Thanks NY Magazine!