The massage girls in Jakarta massage parlors have been asked to wear little padlocks on the zippers of their
pants while working as massage girls in the massage parlors of Jakarta,
Indonesia. Read me about zipper locks for massage workers.
Well, someone has gossiped all the scary detals of a session with your's truly on one of those "massage review boards". So, since there is nothing I can do about it, here it is. You have to be a member to read the juicy bits, but they do allow free members to view the non-juciy parts. I got an 8, which is actually not bad as I remember the session. I woul dhave given him a ..... well, I better not.
In the news today is the sentencing of the guy who ran massage parlors in Connecticut, NY, and New Jersey where he installed hidden cameras and made videos of what was going on behind closed doors.
BRIDGEPORT A man convicted of running brothels in Norwalk, Stamford, Stratford, New York and New Jersey will spend five years and seven months in jail and forfeit more than $300,000 in cash and property, a federal court judge ruled on Thursday.
He was Ukranian and was convicted of transporting women across state lines for purposes of prostitution, as well as money laundering.
The U.S. District Attorney's office said XXX, 45, advertised the brothels as "spas," "massage parlors" or "holistic health centers" in adult newspapers and on the Internet. He arranged the daily transport of women, mostly Eastern European, to locations around the region, the office said.... was found guilty last September of conspiracy to transport for immoral purposes, transporting for immoral purposes and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Federal prosecutors called for a 70-month sentence.
This guy allegedly "ran a brothel called Norwalk Health Center, on the first floor of 94 Taylor Ave., advertised on the Web site www.1russianbutterfly. com". The reports say that:
Authorities arrested XXX in Westport on Sept. 14, 2006, after an investigation turned up video tapes of prostitution in the Norwalk and Stratford parlors. XXX pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering in June 2007 and awaits sentencing.
Of course this massage parlor owner can have alot more trouble because "Prosecutors noted that Dubogryzov did not pay taxes on any of his brothels". Again, illegal businesses... that's the number one problem, not happy endings.
http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/stamford_templates/stamford_story/16015384878394.php
At a Levittown tanning salon at 2711 Hempstead Turnpike, XXX, 30, of 64th Avenue in Fresh Meadows, and XXX, 44, of 35th Avenue in Flushing, were both charged with unauthorized practice and prostitution, police said.
It seems Levittown, New York (Levittown is on Long Island, well known as a place of fly-by-night massage parlors) is one less illegal asian tanning business. I wonder if they even had tanning beds in the place, or was it just a sign and a directory listing?
From a local newspapge May 2008,
Four women -- including a 68-year-old -- were arrested Friday in stings of illegal massage parlors in Lynbrook and Levittown, Nassau police said. In addition, three of the women face prostitution charges for offering manual sex to undercover police detectives, said Officer XXX, a police spokeswoman.
It seems a massage parlor in Lynbrook was serving up some older ladies wo were not sanctioned to be handling the customers:
At Lynbrook's New Joy Spa at 144 Hendrickson Ave., XXX, 56, of South Main Street in New City, and XXX, 68, of 51st Avenue in Elmhurst, were charged with unauthorized practice. XXX was also charged with prostitution, police said.
This time the customers were the dumb ones.
According to reports, a Suffolk County Massage Parlor was busted after police questioned exiting patrons for "weeks" as they enjoyed their special massages, using their statements as evidence against the massage parlor workers. Several Chinese massag parlor workers were charged, some with multiple counts of prostitution and giving massages without a license. The Johns, who where not charged, can happily move on to the next illegal massage parlor business I suppose.
The evidence collected after weeks of such covert interrogation included such dangerous items as lotion,towels, wipes, bedding, and sheet.s Yes, that according to the police as reported:
A search of the parlor yielded massage tables, a bed, $750 and "assorted prostitution-related paraphernalia," which Barone said included lotion, towels, wipes, bedding and sheets.
So you taxpayers can safely surmise that the Suffolk County Police spent weeks serveilling a known to be illegal massage business, interrogating customers who were influenced to incriminate themselves and others in exchange for less embarassment, only to later bust this business where little had apparently gone on beyond hand jobs for those who were looking for it and willing to pay an extra $60 to $100.
I have to wonder why it is ok for Police to apparently wait and wait and wait, spending taxpayer money, hoping that eventually a bigger crime will be committed, instead of acting on the known crime of illegal massage business. After all, if the law against illegal massage was meant to protect the public from illegal, unlicensed massage, why do th epolice allow it to continue? Can all of those customers, who went in to a known illegal massage business, claim the Police acted negligently by allowing it?
All I am saying is, an illegal business should be shut down as soon as it can be shut down, AND we should not tolerate the bs of politicians and police trying and hoping for more colorful crimes they can publicize.
The report started this way:
Ending a weeks-long stakeout in which massage parlor customers leaving a Medford strip mall were stopped and grilled about what they did with masseuses, Suffolk police arrested three women Saturday on charges that they gave illegal massages and prostitution services at Acupuncture Qi-Gong Tui Na, authorities said.
The State of Colorado considered requiring massage therapists be licensed, and determined that there is no need for it at this time, based on a review of the massage industry paid for by taxpayer dollars, and carried out at the request of a "Sunrise Review" of an application for state regulation. That was LAST YEAR. But James Jarman and his KOAA.com website for the Colorado Springs local "News First 5/30" media company published this inflammatory article just yesterday, as if it was news.
James Jarman framed the massage licensing issue in a new light, starting the article:
Despite law enforcement expressing the need for licensing and regulation in the massage industry, the state department that would regulate massage therapists has told state lawmakers that regulation is not needed.
Combined with the headline "State Regulator Says No To Licensing Massage Therapists", this seemingly deceitful presentation of old news as new suggests to the reader that massage licensing is a current concern for Colorado government, instead of the FACT that this was addressed and decided LAST SUMMER. Maybe James Jarman isn't happy with the outcome of the democratic, lawful process of government, but shouldn't he (and KOAA) limit their editorial opinions to the editorial pages?
This "article" (which is really just editorialized propaganda) is obviously supporting someone in the business of licensing massage therapists, such as massage schools, massage certificate programs, or those "international associations" that take several hundred dollar annual fees from hard-working massage therapists who are literally forced to buy them by unfair state laws in other states.
According to James Jarman:
As we've reported over the past few months, the massage therapy industry, along with Springs Metro Vice and the El Paso County Sheriff want licensing and regulation to help clean up the industry.
That's right. Someone is presenting themselves as "the massage therapy industry" and getting James Jarman to write inflammatory stuff like this, presented as news.
James Jarman continues to say :
In November we heard Sheriff Terry Maketa say that without regulation, no matter how many busts officers make the illegal operations continue to flourish in unincorporated El Paso County. "Having some type of regulation, some type of licensing would dramatically turn the tide to our favor and that's what we need if we're really going to have an impact on these operations," Maketa told News First.
Again, by presenting this as news and starting with statements from Police vice units, James Jarman is sugesting that the people and government need massage therapist licensing. Wrong, as considered and decided by Colorado government regulators last year. That vice activity being busted by cops is not massage therapy. It's usually unlicensed illegal business, and if the Police can't stop it, the Police need lawmakers to pay attention to that problem.
The only people who will benefit from mandatory massage licensing are those collecting fees from massage therapists: the massage schools, certificate programs, and sketchy "International Associations" who charge several hundred dollar membership fees for little more than a mebership card. Ask 10 massage therapists if they need mandatory licensing, and then report the results as "news" because ti will be to the readership of KOAA. Until now they are being led to believe massage therapists want mandatory licensing, instead of the truth which is massage schools and massage certification providers want mandatory licensing.
It seems very obvious James Jarman is in bed with some corporate/political agenda. That should be ok, as he is a citizen and entitled to his opinions, but is this news, and it is deceitful and misleading to frame this as news in the local media? Last i checked the FCC granted licensed to news outlets to use public airwaves. Is this abuse of the public trust?
No modern inflammatory news bit about massage would be complete without a mention of sex trafficking, and even though James Jarman had no news involving sex trafficking he managed to fit it in there by appending this:
The report does not mention human trafficking.
Huh. If the report does not mention human trafficking, James Jarman, why do you?
James Jarman also says this:
their review looked at massage therapy not massage parlors. State law defines as parlors as places where massages are given by people who didn't graduate from a massage therapy school. So looking only at therapists, regulators didn't find a lot of problems or complaints.
Okay, so that's the fact. Now we see the bias in James Jarman's reporting. Apparently, James Jarman wants to associate massage therapy with prostitution, and is apparently (shocked? annoyed? frustrated? disappointed?) that the Colorado State government didn't share his desire to associate massage therapy with prositution. I'm wondering if James Jarman is affiliated with a radical religious group, based on this reporting. It seems like fishing for evil in something not understood. It sounds like a lazy manipulative way to force people to follow a belief system they haven't chosen to follow.
Colorado is a democracy, based on the rule of law and the concept of justice (legal justice, not religious justice). If you want to go to get massage therapy, find a massage therapist. If you want to meet a friendly, probably international lady for conversation over a body scrub and rub down, feel free to go to a massage parlor. If a massage parlor breaks the law and engages in prositution, bust them for it (and the man or woman who offered the low wage massage worker money for sex, because that is illegal as well).
KOAA has a published mission statement on their web site:
We will serve our communities with a quality news product that is overwhelmingly local, relevant, and useful to viewers. We will listen to our viewers' interests and concerns and seek solutions with compassionate stories and pro-active journalism. We will build on our leadership position, providing community involvement programs that will help enrich the quality of life for our viewers. We will achieve these goals through good communication, teamwork, and an effective use of our resources.
Maybe it's time for James Jarman to read that mission statement. And if the people of Colorado Springs and Pueblo County want to close down illegal massage parlors that are actually fronts for prositution, they should do two things right away:
Neither requires passing of unreasonable state laws guaranteeing millions of profit dollars to "professional associations" and "massage schools", or placating religious groups pushing their unsolicited values onto the public. Licensing won't stop prostitution. It will simply drive legitimate massage therapists to charge higher fees and/or move to other states where they can make a living, while making the schools and certificate programs rich.
*** Thanks to the reader who submitted this. Excellent coverage of local issues in Colorado.
When the Pennsylvania State Police in Lehigh Valley, near Allentown, PA use taxpayer money to pay for sex in a massage parlor, you hope it was done properly as part of a law enforcement operation. When you hear Pennsylvania police officer paid an informant to go back to that Asian massage parlor in Pennsylvania four times, paying for sex each time, you start to wonder just how much fun these guys were having "laying down on the job". But we massage girls also wonder when we hear about these outrageous incidences. What we wonder might be a little different, but only because we know more about how the massage parlor industry works (both inside the room and outside the room).
So when a Pennsylvania State Police officer near Allentown engages in soliciting prostitution, and the Lehigh county district attorney says the act of buying sex as part of a sting operation is not outrageous, we girls in the biz start to wonder:
Of course I have assumed sexual intercourse, but it might just have been oral sex. A condom is advised for oral sex, as part of universal precautions. But then a girl has to wonder:
I think we get the true story from the clue offered by the reporter, who wrote:
The man brought the spa to police attention after going there for a massage and being appalled at supposedly being offered sex, XXX said.
So, this man goes to a massage spa in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and is "appalled" at being offered sex for money. He takes that knowledge to the police, who ask him to go back, buy pay for the sex (be sure to use a condom!) and document the visit for the court records. Oh, and then do it again. And again. Buy the sex four times (using four condoms, of course) and then we'll bust them based on your witness testimony.
Seriously, folks. How dumb do these cops think YOU are? (YOU being the taxpayers and citizens they are feeding this crap to). Or, if this is really what happened, how dumb are these cops? Imagine YOU are the cop at the desk when a citizen comes in to report that his massage therapist offered him sex for money. Would you believe him? I doubt it. Maybe if he was obviously genuinely upset and "appalled" at the experience, you might believe him. But.... would you then give him money to go back and buy that sex, four times? And if he did, would you still believe him?
You're being played, folks. Don't put up with it. Tell your public servants to get back to work and keep the streets safe, stop the robberies and break-ins, get the drug dealing out of the schools and do a better job keeping the bad guys in jail were they belong, instead of fooling around with whores and writing up bogus reports of crimes against humanity at taxpayer expense.
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080206_Sex-buying_tactics_not_outrageous__D_A__says.html
Some people think massage parlor owners and workers are rich. They hear stories of cash confiscated by authorities and million dollar homes and assume these people are rich. In general, they are not. In general, they are dreamers and very hard working people, and they also tend to spend a lot, just like other hrad working dreamers. I have known a few massage parlor owners and I can tell you they usually overbuy expensive homes so they are forced to make payments (and thus save some money). If they didn't take on a $4,000 per month mortage, for example, they would save ZERO money each month. But forced to make that mortgage (one that regular people would think was absurdly foolish) they work exra hard, take risks that need to be taken, and even justify their activities a little (have to make the mortgage). If it works then after 10 years or so they own a subtsantial chunk of a million dollar house. If it doens't work (and it usually doesn't work) they are forced to bail out of that big house, and use the $50-$100k equity to... start another massage parlor.
They aso drive nice cars. You know why? Because if they drove a clunker they would not get respect from the massage parlor workers. Just as a basketbal coach has to make millions in order to command authority among his multi-illion dollar players, the madame has to drive an expensive car to show she is about more than just this shitty little massage parlor. That car is always mortgaged, just as the house it, and I've seen plenty of them get reposessed by creditors over the years.
So the next time you see a report of a massage parlor owner claiming she has no money, believe it. She probably doesn't. Strippers have more money than massage parlor girls, and they take less risk. It's just the way it is.
Norwalk Massage Parlor Madame Sentenced
A madame from the 2006 round up of Korean massage parlor owners and their human trafficking network resulted in this madame getting 15 months in federal prison. The judge said because she was still running another massage parlor (and got busted there, too) he feels no need for leniency. I am willing to be she had no money and lots of debt after that first bust, and no choice but sew 10 hours a day in a factory for $7 per hour or open another massage parlor. Now she's broke, and they busted her for driving girls across state lines to work in "funny" massage.
I can't disagree with the judge, but it still seems odd that our society will arrest a woman for providing safe comfort for our men to get a little hand attention, but set free rapists and child molesters.
Venus Spa on Wisconsin Ave in Georgetown, District of Columbia was busted the other day. A Korean woman from New Jersey and two Koreans from Virginia were arrested. Two for their involvement in the business, and one for allegedly engaging in prostitution. A local council woman with an Asian last name was quoted as having been concerned about women being "held" in such places. Yawn. What do you think, she was annoyed at the connotation of Asian woman as massage parlor hand job workers?
You can read about it here and here. Nothing too interesting, though. Same old story of Virginia and Washington DC massage parlors getting busted after they perate successfully for YEARS.
Thenext time you think you are being careful asking a massage girlif she's a cop, consider this report out of Australia. A female police officer was moonlighting as a massage parlor girl, reportedly making up to $500 per night in an upscale massage parlor:
An Auckland policewoman who boosted her income moonlighting as a prostitute in a top massage parlour will have earned up to $500 a night. She worked in a "very classy brothel" that employs several attractive women and was well taken care of by management, a spokeswoman for sex workers said yesterday. Police said the officer, who would take home at least $43,000 a year from the force, did not ask permission to take a second job but if she had, approval would not have been granted for sex work. It is understood financial difficulties led her to find a second job, but the Police Association has condemned her choice of work. The policewoman has not been identified but works in the Auckland City district, where female officers make up around 20 per cent, or 132, of the 660 sworn staff. Deputy Commissioner ... said the officer worked "for a limited time" as a prostitute before this was discovered this year. Police would not comment on how they found out about the prostitution but said it was treated as an employment matter.
The policewoman had the support of the New Zealand Prostitutes Collective..."Everyone has to make some sort of living. If she had to pay off certain debts, by all means we totally support that person." Police Association president ... said there was sympathy for the situation which led to the woman's sex work. "But it doesn't change the fact that instinctively police officers know this is not right." XXX said the association was "very uncomfortable" with the woman's choice of work. "It's still regarded as a twilight industry that is a major conflict of interest with what we do as police officers." Many police officers struggled financially, especially in the major cities, and more and more sought secondary employment, XXX said.
"We have had law students, doctors, students, and I don't think there's anything wrong for a police officer to be a sex worker." She would not identify the parlour that employed the policewoman but said it was "very classy".The parlour did not have any connection to gangs or organised crime, she said. "It's probably one of the top brothels in Auckland. On a night ... [she would have made] about $500." Some sex workers at the parlour were aware the woman was a police officer but they were not concerned.
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According to the Newark Star Ledger, a on Woodbridge Road was robbed at gun point. It seems these robberies take place every year starting just before Thanksgiving, notonly of massage parlors but restaurants and bodegas and gas stations. The pressures of holiday season probably cause these people to steal money so they can give gifts to their families over the holidays. Isn't that sad? In order to be good, they have to be bad.
Anyway this time it was a massage parlor robbed, and as usual a scary tale of duct tape and guns and knives:
EDISON: Two bandits armed with a gun and knife bound three employees and a customer at a Woodbridge Avenue mas sage business before fleeing with $500, police said. A man entered the Halo Day Spa on Woodbridge Avenue at 8:22 p.m. Friday, and once inside the massage room pulled out a handgun and bound the female masseuse with duct tape...
Friday night at 8 and they only got $500 says a lot. Massage business is way down, and that was not a risky massage business. Think it through... $500 for a day's revenues (a Friday -- usually a busy day) and you know they searched the girls makeup kits as well, so that $500 includes tips. Pretty sad.
Most massage parlors I know have hidden cameras at the entrances, linked to the Internet, so there is no real on-premises tape to steal or destroy. In this case, they took the VCR they found, which is always the case, but in my places the VCR is just for the front desk camera or just for playing videos during slow periods:
The robber opened a rear door of the spa to let in an ac complice armed with a knife... The two men ordered an employee at the front desk to open the cash register and sum moned everyone in the business to the lobby.... In addition to the cash, the thieves made off with a VCR and a worker's cell phone, he said.
These guys were not very smart. That "workers cell phone" allows them to be tracked everywhere they go. Let's hope the police consider this what it really is - armed robbery of a local business - and bother to do their jobs properly. And if the police are respectful, the massage parlor owner will hand over the hidden camera recordings of the suspects at the front and back doors.
These guys are just as capable of robbing restaurants and nail salons as massage parlors. Best get them off the streets. Track that cell phone and catch them before they hurt somebody worse.
This is a bad location, because it has been robbed twice before accoding to the reports. How can "four or five armed men" get away with armed robbery so easily? Perhaps this is another example of where society needs to consider massage parlors legitimate human pursuits, and give them the same respect they give other small businesses. If we have amred robbers going around hurting people, it's juts a matter of time before they rob you are me in our activities of daily life. What if the massage parlors moveto all debit card? These guys will still rob someone else.
There was a tim when you could get massage therapy in Jersey City, or your choice of massage parlor therapies. Now Jersey City is changing again, and there are very few opportunities for massage parlors in Jersey City.
The best links I have found yet for massage parlor videos, hidden camera videos, live cameras, and massage girl videos:
Norwalk Housing Court, Superior Court in Norwalk, Norwalk Police Chief Harry ***** has said houses of prostitution that front as massage parlors pose a threat to the city's quality of life, and he has made it a priority to shut them down.
Many of the undercover raids on massage parlors over the past few years targeted Tranquility Spa, Nirvana Spa at 181 Main St., and Crystal Spa at 523 West Ave. Crystal Spa faces possible eviction after failing to send a representative to an eviction hearing at Norwalk Housing Court yesterday. Crystal Spa owner XXX, who is incarcerated in federal prison in Manhattan on human trafficking charges, did not send anyone to appear for her. Judge XXX entered a default judgment against Crystal, which will allow XXXX Properties, the owner, to file legal papers Wednesday to break the lease and take back the property. XXX has five days to file a motion to reopen the eviction proceeding or to seek a delay, said XXXXXX attorney XXXXX shortly after the hearing.
Crystal Spa was the most recent massage parlor to be raided by the Special Services Unit, the police department's drug and vice squad. During the May 31 raid, police arrested XXX, 48, of Leonia, N.J., and three employees on prostitution-related charges. XXX has pleaded not guilty, while two others were given diversionary programs that could wipe the charges from their records. The fourth pleaded guilty to prostitution. XXXX said if the appeal period lapses Wednesday for Crystal Spa, XXXXX Properties would have the right to retake the premises. But XXX's husband, XXXXX, said yesterday that he hopes that he will be able to stay there for the next few years until the area is redeveloped. "It is not a house of prostitution," XXXXX said. XXXXXXX said his attorney is working with XXXX to get a lease that would give them the right to do business there for the next few years.
"We are there for a good cause," XXXXX said, "We are helping to keep the guys real. When they come in and get relaxed, it is good. A lot of time they go to bars and get riled up."
Everytime society makes a rule and enforces it, there are side effects. But it seems lawmakers make laws without considering those side effects. Back in the early days of my own massage parlor work experience, not all that long ago, the condom was optional. Some of us were very careful, but it was more for general health reasons than specific disease management. When you accept that fact that 8 out of 10 massage parlor customers are screwing someone else two or three times a week (the wife, the girlfriend, the bar pick up, the gay lover) you cover up not because you're a high-frequency provider, but because your partner is a high-frequency provider.
Enter AIDS and STDs becoming a general societal threat. Just as the Washington DC Sniper became a threat to everyone, epidemic health issues like AIDS get attention only after everyone feels the threat. So condoms condoms condoms. Do you have any idea of the social stigma associated with requiring your partner to cover up in a plastic bag? Probably not, because American social culture is so young and flexible. But in Korea, for example, to suggest your partner needs to cover up is like calling him a genetically-determined dirty scumbag. Even if he really is one, you'll suffer greatly for having suggested it. But in this country, even the korean massage girls started requiring condoms.
Amazed as I was with the way society managed to move from free sex to condom required, I was even more amazed at the way local law enforcement latched onto the condom as a stigmatic sign of prostitution. As soon as condoms were required, simply having a condom became "evidence" of bad behavior. The same society that gingerly eased it's sexually active (most lively? most vibrant?) citizens to accept wrapping their most sensitive body parts in sterile plastic before indulging in "romantic, wreckless abandon", was now ridiculing those people for being prepared. Pull a billfold out of your pocket and expose a condom wrapper and wow... the looks you get! Visit a massage parlor with a condom in your pocket and what does the neighborhood think? You're going there for sex, right? Just look at what happens with a massage parlor raid... the cops go through pockets and look for cash and condoms. Cash is ok, except a few hundred bucks cash means they start asking accusatory questions about what it's for. Cash plus condom? They act like you're guilty of soliciting prostitution for just being prepared.
Eventually it got worse and worse, and we working girls saw the effects. Customer stopped bringing condoms. Because of the way you righteous finger-pointing dumbasses behaved, your fathers, brothers, cousins, uncles, and sons started taking on more risk. The massage girls brought the condoms, but never enough. What if there was no condom available? Usually there was higher-risk sex. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to predict that outcome.
But then the real dumbasses joined in. The local police started searching for condoms in massage parlors, and using it as evidence of criminal activity. Naturally this led to a ban on condoms in massage parlors. Not a ban on sex, mind you. Sex didn't get the massage parlor owner in trouble. Condoms did. So if a girl got caught hiding a condom in the massage parlor, she was abused and fired. She only worked as a massage parlor girl for money in the first place, and now she was simply being asked to work more unsafely for the same money in the massage parlor.
There are many ways to hide condoms, but the police seem to find detective-like pleasures in knowing those, and they search very, very hard to find condoms in massage parlors. I've seen them rip open plasterboard walls looking for condoms. Ceiling tiles are removed, air ducts inspected. Pillow cases ripped open. They have found condoms behind wall-mounted door bells, inside the heel of a shoe, behind paintings, and in shower heads. The police act jubilous when they find them, like an "ah HAH!" conviction. Dumbasses. Protect and serve? They are just putting everyone at more risk, by defining the tool of public health protection as the cause of public health concerns. Clue to the detective: the condom in the massage parlor is a sign of health management. Sex in a massage parlor is a sign of prostitution. Consider the side effects, ok?
So here's a report that shows just what sort of thing actually goes on:
Following a three-year investigation by federal and local authorities in Orange County, Calif., the owners of at least 10 massage parlors were arrested in March and accused of running prostitution establishments, and among the investigators' findings was that, to reduce the cost of supplying condoms, the salons urged customers to use plastic food wrap, which management bought in large quantities. Said District Attorney XXX, "I really don't think about [plastic food wrap] in the same way anymore." [Los Angeles Times, 3-22-07]
Notice how they say "to reduce the cost of supplying condoms..." as the reason they were using plastic wrap in the massage parlor? Where's the evidence to support that statement? It wasn't the cost of a $0.50 condom, idiot. It was the cost of getting busted for doing nothing more than having condoms on the premises.
You.. society... are getting played every day by your politicians and law enforcement and press, in cases just like this one. The massage parlor girl "urged" the customer to cover up with plastic wrap because she knows unprotected sex with a massage parlor patron is unhealthy. You taught her that because you need her to know that so you are protected from epidemic health problems. But she can't use a condom, because she doesn't have one and he didn't bring one. Do you think plastic wrap works as well as a condom? Do you think it works at all? You had better hope it does, but I hate to deliver the bad news that it doesn't. It actually makes things worse, as the wrap is more abrasive than condoms and not properly lubricated. Sex with plastic wrap is more likely to involve small skin abrasions, which lead to higher riskof transmission of disease. And that's just for starters.
Now let me ask you the true question. Do you really believe that a massage girl who gets $40 for a hand job and $120 for 15 minutes of sex is skipping the condom to save fifty cents?
Have you seen the price of industrial plastic wrap (which is what they had)? It's $40 or $50 per roll, and it comes from restaurants owned and operated by relatives of the owners of the massage parlors. Do you truly believe that massage parlor owners will give their own money to buy supplies for massage parlor workers like that? Not only won't they ever "give" anything to their workers, but they routinely take half the gratuities massage parlor workers earn. The only reason a massage parlor owner will give rolls of plastic wrap to the girls is because it enables him to declare a prohibition on condoms, and he does that because you all have decided the mere presence of condoms in a massage parlor is sufficient "evidence" to shut it down for prostitution.
Dumbasses, all around.
We know have condoms imported from Asia in little rolled up form, so the wrapper is a little cylinder the size of a skinny lipstick. Where do you think that gets hidden until it is needed? Are you happy now?
From the Daily Record in NJ, we hear of another asian massage parlor raided:
MORRISTOWN -- One woman was charged with prostitution and two more with maintaining a nuisance after an investigation into a massage parlor that was operating without a license, police said Friday. Four people connected to Ocean Spa located at 125 Morris St. were arrested after a three-month investigation by town detectives. Arrested were owner XXX, 41, of Woodbridge, and three women - [Chinese name], 37, [Chinese name], 42, and [Chinese name], 40, all of Flushing, N.Y., police said.
According to the report, it was the neighbors again:
Police received several complaints from citizens who suspected prostitution, police said.
And as usual, the secondary conditions led to the most serious charges:
In the investigation, police found numerous fire and code violations... Because the immigration status of the three women are in question, Lt. Steve Sarinelli said the police department has contacted Immigration and Customs Enforcement for further investigation. XXX was charged with promoting prostitution, maintaining a nuisance, operating a business without a license, and several zoning and code violations. He was being held on $25,000 bail. XXX was charged with engaging in prostitution and XXX and XXX were charged with maintaining a nuisance. Each had a bail of $2,500, police said.
And, of course, the local politico used the event for some lobbying:
Mayor XXXX said the arrests underscore the need to implement 287G, the ICE program that deputizes local police officers to enforce immigration laws, which are currently enforced by the federal government agents.
Please. Do we really need to give more power to the local people? I fail to see the connection. They contacted immigration... isn't that enough?
Red Square and other Norwalk CT Brothels
a Russian national... pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to launder money for a series of brothels in Fairfield County, New York and New Jersey.
...plea agreement accuses her of laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars for a series of holistic health centers and massage parlors operating as brothels featuring Eastern European women and run by XXXX a 44-year-old native of the Ukraine....the brothels began operation in 2002.
"What took place in the massage parlors?"... "Prostitution," answered the slim, tanned woman..."And you knew that?" the judge continued...."Yes,"
And then the unsavory part:
Federal agents seized customer lists, video recordings showing sexual activity and financial records from several of the facilities including New Age Management, 2900 Main St., Stratford; the Norwalk Health Center, 94 Taylor Ave., Norwalk; and Red Square, 251 Hope St., Stamford.
Many of the workers were hired through ads published in Russkaya Reklama, one of the largest circulating Russian-language newspapers in the United States.
Norwalk Health Center 94 Taylor Ave Norwalk
Well it seems this place was involved in some unseemly business a while ago, according to reports of a Russian massage parlor business that got busted.
"a series of holistic health centers and massage parlors operating as brothels featuring Eastern European women "
In December of 1997 the New Jersey police arrested two people for a string of massage parlor robberies in New Jersey, including several massage businesses in Lyndurst, Passaic, and Lodi New Jersey. The two men were from Queens, New York, a borough of New York City and famously known as the source of a large number of asian massage parlor workers hidden in massage parlors all over the country.
The New York Times published this report dated May 7, 2007, even though the story is from 1997. You have to wonder who to trust for information on massage parlors, eh?
Two Queens women have been charged with prostitution after police raided a Middletown Road massage business for the second time in just more than six months. The two women working at the Asian Therapy Center were accused of giving back rubs without a license and fondling the private parts of their male customers.
That's how the report starts. It was Asian Therapy Center in Pearl River, New York:
The Asian Therapy Center also was raided in October 2006, when Clarkstown police arrested two different women from Flushing on prostitution charges...The business is located on the Clarkstown-Orangetown border, with the building in Orangetown and the parking lot in Clarkstown.
According to the report, the ladies didn't solicit customers, and customers didn't solicit the ladies. No, the ladies just touched the guys gratis, and are now facing sexual abuse charges:
"People laid on their backs and got a massage," XXX said. "After 15 minutes, they asked you to turn over and they fondled the person's private parts without permission." When undercover officers asked if there was an extra charge for the sex act, they were told it was covered by the $60 fee... The sexual abuse count covers the unsolicited touching of the men's private area, he said.
Interesting twist on an old story. Now the massage parlor girls are sexual abusers, too?
The report says the usual about other spas and massage parlors in nearby Rockland county communities... I presume to scare away the customers:
Several of those types of parlors have been raided and closed around Rockland, including Clarkstown, Spring Valley, Haverstraw and Stony Point. In some cases, the women arrested were of Russian origin.
The report says Silver Spa, a massage place in Morris County, New Jersey, was busted Wednesday. One 40 year old Chinese woman was arrested on prostitution charges (I say Chinese because of the name). The owner was also in trouble. There was no evidence seized.
But authorities started hearing rumors last year about men entering the spa at odd hours after parking their cars in remote areas of the 95 W. Main St. parking lot. Coupled with concerns raised elsewhere about massage parlors, the rumors were enough to prompt local and Morris County authorities to start an undercover operation.
It's the customers again, raising suspicions. It seems you can run a brothel no problem, but you can't control the way your customers disturb the community? They drive nice cars, walk the sidewalks, and visit when the neighbors are porching.
The results were announced on Thursday, March 29, when authorities said they had charged the owner of the spa, XXX, 42, of Mount Arlington, with promoting prostitution. An employee, XXX, 40, of Flushing, N.Y., was charged with engaging in prostitution.
Andof course it becomes a regulations crime, as they check certifications and such :
the council was scheduled to consider on Tuesday night if it will suspend the spa’s license because of concerns that people had been living at the spa and that the owner may have lied about her massage therapy certification.
Of course this activity doesn't stop the hungry from seeking out a snack:
Since the arrests, the spa has remained open. On Thursday, a male customer pulled up in a late model black Mercedes-Benz. Two women employees spoke little English but told a reporter that they were unaware of the charges. Business owners in the area said they were not surprised at the arrests. They asked not to be identified, but said that in past months, they had seen male customers park long distances from the spa and had seen women in boots and "short pants" walking from the spa to cars.
Funny, eh? I bet that massage parlor owner was very nervous when her girls wandered around for cigarette breaks, walking the neighborhood in mini skirts and hot pants. But I bet it was good for business! Here we see that was a major issue:
"What triggered the investigation was the police paying attention to the high volume of people observed entering and leaving the business," said Chief XXX. Logan said authorities also were aware that the spa had advertised in area newspapers under personals.
The rest reads like a whole bunch of addon text just to fill up the space:
The chief said customers apparently paid $60 for a massage with sexual favors granted for an unknown extra cost...authorities believe the Silver Star Spa was XXX’s only massage parlor. Another Silver Star Spa is located at 6 W. 48th St., in New York City but the women employees said it was not related to the Chester parlor.... the only evidence seized at the Chester massage parlor was the cash supplied by the undercover officer. He said no records of transactions were seized....In past years, authorities around the county have raided massage parlors and often found the alleged prostitutes to have been Asian, Russian or Ukrainian women who have emigrated to the U.S. Often they do not speak English and are provided housing and modest wages by the massage parlor owner. That is a growing trend, according to a 2001 report titled, "Sex trafficking of women in the U.S." by Janice G. Raymond of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.... The report noted that in 2001, there were from 200 to 300 massage parlors or health clubs and thousands of residences and other discreet locations that house prostitution in New Jersey. The report said advertisements that refer to "European massage" often mean prostitution.
Wow. Just a few years ago it was asian massage or oriental massage. Now it's European massage.
The borough enacted an ordinance in December 2005 requiring all massage therapists to register with the borough. According to records in the Borough Clerk’s office, XXX is listed as the owner and a licensed massage therapist. She is one of four registered massage therapists in the borough...The certification requires that massage therapists have completed at least 500 hours of class study in massage body work or somatic therapy and have a certification by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Body Work. A criminal background check also is completed before certification..In her application, XXX said she was certified on March 8, 2004, and had attended the Academy of Massage Therapy for courses in Swedish and Korean massage.
And this is the funny part:
XXX, executive director of the Academy of Massage Therapy in Hackensack, would not comment on whether XXX had attended.
Could that be because the records are a bit, shall we say, "funny" over at that new jersey Massage school? Of course the reporter then plugs the very profitable and optional certifying board as if it were a required certification:
A representative of the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Body Work, based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., said XXX was "not currently certified."
Those guys make TONS of money "certifying" massage therapists and providing insurance that will probably never be taxed because most every practitioner will be out of compliance with their strict and possible unrealistic terms. Nice way to make a million, eh?
Licensing and certification are not required for massage therapists in New Jersey. Many states, however, do require licensing, including New York, Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, New Mexico, Hawaii, Ohio and Nebraska...Voluntary certification is offered by the N.J. Board of Nursing..."We’re pushing for mandatory certification," XXX said.
Sure she is. She's connected to that money-making organization, and even then gets a plug with a full link to their website. How blatantly offensive can you get? Certainly more offensive than some 40 year old Chinese woman giving your husband a quickie hand job, no?
XXX said anyone seeking a bona fide massage therapist can search through the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Body Work atXXX or call the board, toll-free at 888-XXX-XXXX.
After more search engine spam,
Massage therapists should have attended a state-approved school and be a member of a professional massage therapy organization, such as the American Massage Therapy Association....Legitimate massage therapy is a growing trend in the U.S., with 39 million adults getting annual massages, according to a 2006 report by the American Massage Therapy Association. Relaxation (26 percent) is one reason Americans get massages but they also have them for medical purposes (30 percent) such as injury recovery, pain reduction, headache control, and for overall health and wellness... National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Body Work reported there are more than 80,000 nationally certified massage practitioners who serve millions of consumers...Nationally Certified practitioners work in physicians’ offices, private practices, health clubs, fitness centers, spas and hospitals.
The article plus the same profitable corporation again, as if two times with a live back link wasn't enough:
The National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Body Work, offers certifications in various modalities and disciplines including Swedish massage, shiatsu, polarity therapy, Rolfing, Trager techniques, reflexology, neuromuscular therapy and more.
What is it about massage parlors that brings in a steady stream of customers? What magic does a massage parlor hold over the community? Well, a reader saw my post about Richmond massage parlors getting closed down (Richmond is near Vancouver, in British Columbia Canada). He wrote:
"Missy, people have to understand just what value these massage parlors have for use men, and your picture of the massage parlor raids in Vancouver is a perfect example. Look at that picture. I can't stop staring at it. The lady - the massage parlor girl, sitting on the end of the massage table, while a police officer writes her up. Just look at her breasts! Even from far away, in the dimly-lit room, she has perfect rounded, firm young breasts, nipples lifting upwards and outwards. You can tell clearly she has nothing between her firm skin except that shirt. If I were there, and she were working on my body, he beautiful breasts would be inches from my body and I would enjoy it like no tomorrow. And if she brushed against me? Damn if I can't stop thinking about it as long as you have that picture up there. For her to be available to me whenever I need her to be, even for just massage, is a beautiful thing. Keep up the good work on the blog, and thanks for that photo!
Well, I don't share his love of that breast, but for those who do and for him, my loving reader, here's a closer view :-)
She looks to be about 25 to me, and for an asian woman at 25 she seems very well proportioned. Not too slim, I have to agree. Rather shapely. She almost appears to be aroused! I didn't touch up that photo... I just cropped it and increased contrast a bit. It seems our reader is a connisseur and can see quality a mile away!
Is that really why you guys love to come in asian massage parlors?
(original photo is repeated below)
On December 9 Vancouver British Columbia saw a raid of 18 massage parlors around Vancouver, with 100 arrests by more than 200 police officers. The massage parlors were all asian massage parlors in Vancouver, asian massage parlors in Richmond, and asian massage parlors in Coquitlam, Surrey and Burnaby. All places I know nothing about, and some of which I can't pronounce!
According to reports in the Vancouver Sun, the concern was trafficking:
Seventy-eight of those arrested were women whom police believe could be victims of human trafficking.
BUT, as we usually see, the people arrested were not really "trafficked". They were economically enslaved, just as we all are. According to the report,
So far, no charges have been laid despite the enormous undertaking by RCMP detachments in Coquitlam, Richmond, Surrey and Burnaby, as well as the Vancouver police department, the Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) and other government agencies... everyone arrested in the raids has been released, including the women who declined government assistance of emergency shelter.
Perhaps most odd,
the women all were in Canada legally either as citizens or permanent residents, they still could have been exploited and used in the sex trade against their will...Superintendent XXX, who heads "E" Division Border Integrity, said victims "are exploited through fear and debt. ...they were "not in violation" of immigration laws, said [] the Canada Border Services Agency.
So they were all legal workers, and we bust them because they are "exploited through fear and debt"? Hell, everyone with a job is exploited through fear and debt every single day. Richmond named the asian massage parlor businesses it raided:
Police in New York have busted two massage parlors in Carmel, NY according to reports in the news. In one case it is clear form the names that it was a Chinese massage parlor in Carmel, NY. In the other case, it is not clear what sort of massage parlor it was.
Acording to reports, the massage parlor in Carmel was run by a 27 year old Chinese woman from Flushing, New York, and included 2 other Chinese massage girls from Flushing, both 38 years old. Al three names were Chinese.
Carmel police sent two undercover officers into Carmel Massage, on the second floor of 1961 Route 6, around 3:30 p.m. yesterday, Chief XXX said. The officers were met by two women who directed them to separate rooms and collected $70 each for the massage. But during the massage...the two women each offered to perform a sexual act for another $40.
Well, for $40 we can be pretty sure it was a Happy Ending Massage being offered in the Chinese massage parlor. It is always annoying when reporters refer to that as a "sexual act" and "prostitution" because really... do your community standards consider a hand job prostitution? I doubt very much that the majority of people in yur community would say it was. I also doubt very much your conservatives or law enforcement people would not say that, though. Anyway,
The masseuses - XXX and XXX, both 38 and of Flushing [New York's largest Asian community] - were each charged with violating the state law by engaging in unauthorized practice of a regulated profession, a felony, and prostitution, a misdemeanor, police said.
There we go again with that NEw York State massage law. I still can't believe it is a felony to offer a massage without a proper New York State massage license. A felony. It isn't even a felony to rape in some cases, but a hand job in New York is a felony. Anyway...
The manager, XXX, 27, also of Flushing, was also charged with unauthorized practice and third-degree promoting prostitution, felonies, police said. The three women are scheduled to appear Jan. 8 in town court. The arrests come two weeks after police busted another alleged house of prostitution that operated as a massage business at 566 Route 6. In that case, one woman, a 34-year-old New Jersey resident, was charged with prostitution after offering to perform a sex act for money on an undercover officer, police said.
According to reports from September 23, a Nyack, New York Skin care business was raided for prostitution. Again, as we see time after time, a clearly illegal business operating out of a mis-marked storefront is busted, but the reports and media coverage are all about it being a "massage parlor". Here we go:
Police raided a Main Street massage parlor and charged two Brooklyn women with prostitution, concluding a several-month investigation, Orangetown police said yesterday. The two women were arrested about 8:40 p.m. Thursday at You & I Skin Care Corp., 148 Main St., after they offered sex to an undercover police officer in exchange for money, Detective XXX said.
So just to make sure you got that, Nyack police spent several months undecover investigating a store front in Nyack. They arrested two young women workers.
"After the massage was over, they solicited the officer for sex," he said. "Basically it was masking as a massage operation."
Yes, I see. It was a skin care place, offering massage services. Wasn't that enough to shut it down? Did you really need to go undercover for 6 months and play massage parlor patron, teasing the conversation towards illicit acts like hand jobs and blow jobs?
(Russian-sounding name) 21, of Brooklyn was charged with promoting prostitution, a misdemeanor, and practicing without a massage therapy license, a felony. (Russian-sounding name), 33, also of Brooklyn, was charged with prostitution, a misdemeanor, and practicing without a massage therapy license.
According to the report, the officer said:
"She was like the madam...All types of sex was offered for a price."
With only a sign advertising reflexology and a security camera out front, XXX said the building was relatively nondescript and that people had to ring a bell for entry. When inside, the women offered a variety of sexual acts, costing from $20 to $100.
See? A non-descript storefront, locked door... did we really need to go undercover, guys? Couldn't a single visit by a building inspector or tax collector get the job done?
"...said police confiscated more than $1,100 in cash and found a list of about 1,000 names of people who likely used the parlor. The investigation had been ongoing for about six months by the Orangetown Police Department and the Rockland County Narcotics Task Force."
It must suck to be a cop these days. What a waste of beauty, braun, and brain cells. Here's Missy's quick guide to preserving a high quality of life for Nyack, New York residents:
1. Be aware of your town and it's businesses. See an empty storefront open for business, but kept locked and non-descript? Stop by and say hello. See what it's about.
2. Not permitted entry, or no answer except for customers? Send in the fire inspector, health inspector, or building inspector. Those should be allowed.
3. See something illegal or dangerous? Write a citation and / or order to protect the people. Shut it down if necessary.
See? It's easy. Now advancing your acreer and keepingyour fat budgets is not as easy, I admit. But then, that is what must make the job suck, right?
Glenwood Springs, Colorado Massage Parlor Busted
The owner of one Glenwood Springs massage establishment and an employee of a second were arrested on prostitution-related charges in apparently unrelated incidents Thursday night. The arrests are highly unusual for Glenwood, so much so that city police had to consult with other agencies to decide how to carry out the undercover operations that led to the arrests.
According to the report, arrested were (chinese name), 41, the owner of Asian Day Spa at 718 Cooper Ave., and a resident at that address, and chinese name), 48, an employee of A-1 Chinese Health Care Massage at 1026-B Grand Ave. and a resident there.
Chinese person #2 faces charges of prostitution, unlawful sexual contact and keeping a place of prostitution. Chinese #1 is charged with prostitution and unlawful sexual contact. Both "posted bonds and been released by Friday..." Amounts were $1,250, and $2,000.
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20061008/VALLEYNEWS/110080039
"...Sacramento County authorities busted a massage business that officials said was a house of prostitution. The undercover operation was conducted at the South Seas Massage and Tanning Parlor in north Sacramento...A decoy went into the business carrying cash and wearing a wire. Authorities said 15 minutes later, the decoy was offered sex for money. After getting a signal from the decoy, the team moved in for the bust.There were several alleged violations at the business."
Allegation #1? "First the door was locked, authorities said."
Allegation #2? "inside the room where the undercover officer was on the table, he was not covered, which is another violation."
Allegation 3 : "authorities said the girl touched the officer in an inappropriate way."
With little else to do, this project took some good quality billable staff time:
"Deputies arrested one woman on prostitution charges and cited another on charges relating to improper attire for a massage therapist. Deputies will also spend hours inspecting the business and recording evidence."
I can't quite understand this one. A Quality of Life issue? For who's life? It sounds as if they are saying they want to improve the quality of life of the employees of the tanning/massage parlor?
"The problem is it's a quality of life issue. And we're trying to restore the quality of life these people have, and we want them to live in a positive environment -- not an environment where prostitution takes place," Sacramento County Sheriff's Department spokesman...said.
And then we see what is really going on.
"The county ordinance changed about a year ago making it more difficult to run illegal businesses and houses of prostitution. Owners' licenses can be suspended or revoked, but in this case, the owner doesn't have the proper licenses, authorities said."
In other words, an illegal business was operating in Sacramento, but they didn't know they could just walk in and shut it down for being an illegal business. No, instead they had to set up an undercover investigation, "spend hours inspecting the business and recording evidence" and make the news with a "prostitution bust" just a few weeks before elections. Maybe they should have continued to allow massage parlors, because then they would still have something to do with their time instead of making up "undercover operations" like this one.
Editorial: this was an illegal business and should have been closed down based on that fact.Very simple. It was also a tanning business, as evidenced by the big sign over the door that said "South Seas Tanning". The use of this event to create sensationalist news, especially calling it a massage business, is as imoral as the actionsof anybody offering a hand release because of the motivation: the politicos bend the rules for power and money. The ladies bend the rules to survive.
http://www.kcra.com/news/10003154/detail.html
I just sat through a meeting with a lawyer, a massage parlor owner, two local business/political types (I call them "bosses") and an (off-duty?) police investigator. It was a meeting to discuss a popular message board that talks about massage parlors and escort services. It was unbelievable.
Guys, you have no idea of the power that lines up behind this kind of issue.
It's all about money, honey. And it ain't the house fees I'm talking about. Everybody these days wants information, and information is power. Power costs money, and power has money. The mamasan wants a clean business with no trouble, the cops wants a clean business with no trouble, and the customers want a clean business with no trouble. The lawyers and "bosses" want that, too, but more than that they want power. And they get that power from information. If you are a guy posting information on message boards, you're information is of interest to these guys. Don't ask me why; figure it out for yourself.
And information they get. From what i could see, the lawyer hit a website owner with a massive amount of legal paperwork, and got back practically complete records of user visits, IP numbers, postings, and just about anything he wanted. One web site was ordered by the court to hand over every computer hard drive without any notice (they didn't actually take them but sent someone who copied them). Some IT people matched the records to actual people in town, with names and addresses and jobs and phone numbers. And someone (the detectives?) provided more info on them. There were posts that said massage girls gave blowjobs, anal sex, and all sorts of crazy stuff, and the guys doing the posting stated things as if they thought they were anonymous. Clearly slander and harmful stuff. Think massage parlors don't have good lawyers? Think again. This guy was paid $400 per hour. Somebody's in for a few surprises, I think. There was a god discussion of how damages are calculated when people make irresponsible statements that harm a business. It included the $400 per hour fees for the lawyers. nasty, nasty stuff. Stupid people, those message board posters.
I know it's a local election year, so maybe this is about eliminating competition? Someone is going to do something with this information, for sure. Or threaten to. It didn't seem like an extortion meeting, but honestly it was like they all knew the posts were mostly hearsay and bullshit, extremely harmful, and that the mamasan was paying tons of fees and taxes to everybody around the table. this was a business meeting, pure and simple.
I've been pretty lucky that my customers don't bad mouth me in public like that. But then again, I don't usually accept customers of the "caliber" that complains on prostitution message boards. But if you are one of those guys who thinks that he's anonymous because he uses Anonymizer or AOL or whetever, think again. There was a lot of money around the table today, and these guys know what they are doing.
On a related note, Lucky Therapy in Bloomfield, NJ was busted last month. It had operated for 10 years, with 2 small problems in 2001. I actually slept there once many years ago, travelin gon my way to NY nd visiting oneof my girlfriends. open for 10 years, I guess you could say that the town new about it, and tolerated it, and it stayed pretty clean. If all you read is the first few paragraphs of that news report, it sounds like the town cleaned up a problem. But down at the bottom, you see the local politician blaming the landlord for allowing the tenant. You learn that the building owner is in a legal dispute with the town - the town wants to steal the property under eminent domain laws.
If you speak to the locals (I simply had to make a phone call when I read this), you hear that the town has lost two huge, expensive legal battles so far, and has run out of options for controlling that block. Remember what I said about power, money, and all that? It's not just big fish batttling in the ocean. You know what they say in Korea... whales battling in the ocean break the backs of many small shrimp in the area.
It seems new Jersey has (or maybe it's "had") more massage parlors than Thailand. It seems every week I get a report of a New Jersey massage parlor bust. Today it's an Asian massage parlor in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey owned by someone in Short Hills, New Jersey.
As usual the media reporting is suspect, as the Morris County Daily Record posts the story on September 1st but notes the arrests were made some time ago. yes, they say the actual charging of the woman in the massage parlor with prostitution happened Thursday, but the massage parlor was closed weeks ago. It was the Asian Health Center in Mountain lakes, New Jersey.
The usual complaints from nearby businesses, police undercover investigation, alleged solicitation for sex acts... you know the drill. But perhaps different in this case is the admission from a dtective that:
...the prosecutor's officer was monitoring an underground website where massage parlors in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and California that offered varying degrees of prostitution were listed on a discussion board...
Wow. I don't know of any "underground" websites like that. In fact, there are dozens of such websites and they are easily found. I understand there is only one that is specifically New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California, though. It, too is public and easily found. Maybe that was just a bit of sensationalism for the people to read?
Nine brothels/massage parlors/escort services were busted in Seattle. Another asian sex trafficking operation, although this one sounds to be Chinese not Korean. Here
Apparently some cops were caught on a hidden camera in a massage parlor.
According to CBS news reports in New York, undercover cops prepared to bust a massage parlor in Brooklyn. They sent one undercover cop in, and the massage parlor hidden camera showed him as follows:
Pictures taken from a series of hidden surveillance cameras show the undercover officer entering, standing in the massage parlor lobby and then walking out. He spends a total of 43 seconds inside. Yet the officer claimed that during those 43 seconds he was solicited by all eight women working there.
So in other words, he lied to bust up a possible legitimate asian massage parlor. Now the massage parlor owner then told the police (through his attorney) that his massage parlor video tape would prove he did nothing wrong. The next day, his massage parlor was burglarized (allegedly) by cops from that same bust detail. They wanted to take the video tape.
On April 13, one day after the prostitution bust, two men broke in through the back door of the massage parlor. Cameras were rolling, capturing footage exclusively obtained by CBS 2. The men you see on the tape aren't your average burglars. Rather they're cops, with guns drawn and badges showing. On the video, they flip on the lights and begin a search for the tape from the night before, evidence that could prove the prostitution arrests were based on lies.
Now too bad for them, this particular massage parlor owner had a computer-based system that had, in addition to the video tape, a hard drive full of the videos. Bummer!
With his lieutenant by his side, the sergeant then notices a small pinhole camera, pulls up a stool, reaches and yanks it off the wall. With the camera now ripped out and videotape in hand, the cops may have believed all is clear, but they were wrong. A computer hard drive recorded their every action and prosecutors now have this evidence of crimes allegedly co