The ethical code of the American Psychological Association as well as most professional organizations specifically prohibits sexual contact between therapists and their clients. A therapist who has sex with a client is taking advantage of, rather than helping, that client. No matter what your problem may be, it can never help for your therapist and you to engage in sexual activity. Sexual contact between therapist and client has been found to be clearly harmful to therapy clients in almost every case studied. Most therapists who attempt to introduce sex into a therapy relationship do so more than once with more than one client.
Clients often feel love, affection, and even sexual attraction toward their therapists.
But a good, ethical, caring therapist knows that it could be harmful to you if he or she were to take advantage of those feelings by having sexual relations with you. It is a bad idea and unethical to end therapy in order to start a sexual relationship. Sexual contact includes a wide range of behaviors besides intercourse, and these behaviors aim to arouse sexual feelings. They range from suggestive verbal remarks, to erotic hugging and kissing, to manual or oral genital contact. Usually when touching occurs in therapy, it takes the form of a comforting hug or congratulatory pat on the back.