Once upon a time, it was mostly women who volunteered to have pins stuck into them on purpose in the name of being healthy. But now men are into it too, and partly thanks to royalty, thinks Eloise Coulson, one of London’s top acupuncturists, who is talking me through her client base from her white studio in central London.
“I’d say at least 50 per cent of them are now men, which definitely wasn’t the case in student clinic, unless someone’s wife or girlfriend sent them along,” Coulson says. “Maybe it’s things like the King being a real advocate of complementary medicine.”
