Massage Parlor News

Denver Massage

Busted! Denver massage parlor sting, as reported by the news. Everyday Spa in Denver, an 1529 Champa Street Denver near the 16th street mall, busted. You should see the video of the ransacked massage parlor. It looks like the police detectives tossed the place real good. It's hard to justify police throwing everything everywhere and turning over tables, supposedly as a consequence of searching. Who are they kidding? They are being bullies, plain and simple. Destroying property. Actually, that's supposed to be a crime,no?

As usual, it's all part of a search for underage children, which they didn't find. Yawn.

Second Denver massage parlor was Lily Day Spa at 2060 S. Huron St.Denver. Same owner. No surprise.

I know Denver's new massage laws are not strict enough yet?  

58 years old, 60 years old, 56 years old, BUSTED!

Again we see a story of an Asian massage parlor busted, citing grandmas as the owners/operators. This time a small massage place in South Brunswick, New Jersey, a space with a history of massage parlor tenants, gets busted and no one under 56 is found on the premises. An alleged prostitute, and alleged manager of a place of prostitution, and an alleged owner of an Asian massage parlor... all over 56 years old.

I can't imagine the priorities in place over in South Brinswick, New Jersey, where police are investigating nearly retired women on charges of "prostitution". Seriously, how much of a public threat are three Korean grandma's running a small men's spa that is open for business in a public building?

Seriously folks...if there were no safety issues, no public health risks, no rip-offs or organized criminal activities... just three korean grandmas making a living the hard way, why spend so  much "arresting" them in the act of a crime? Are there some 60 year old wines jealous that their men are paying 60 year old mamasans for attention? I doubt many 30 year old husbands are frequenting that place, so it's not like marriages are at risk.

http://www.nj.com/news/local/index.ssf/2009/05/south_brunswick_massage_parlor.html

Nirvana Spa Norwalk CT

It seems Nirvana Spa has been busted (again):

Nirvana spa has been raided three times, resulting in multiple arrests for prostitution, but has still managed to reopen its business. The spa was last raided on Dec. 3 and was briefly shut down. It reopened in March as Asian Palm and soon changed its name back to Nirvana Relaxation Spa, police said.

This time they arrested 3 women, 2 for working and one for allegedly managing:

Wednesday's bust netted three women who were arrested on prostitution-related charges. XXX, 39, of Flushing, N.Y., and XXX, 28, of Los Angeles, were both arrested for prostitution and conspiracy.

If they continue to bust these spas, where will the Chinese women from Flushing work? It will become a huge problem, no? (that's a joke, folks, and I am racially eligible to make it).

http://www.thehour.com/story/467708

 

Eva Health Therapy, Manassas VA busted

From today's news, we learn of an asian masage parlor in Virginia getting shut down.

MANASSAS, Va. - A Prince William County business is in trouble with the law for offering customers a little more than a massage. Investigators say 2 of the workers were offering sexual services.

On Tuesday, according to reports, officers arrested two Korean female massage workers from Eva Massage Therapy.

at least 12 police officers rushed into the building to arrested 2 workers. 36 year old (Chinese massage worker name) and 48 year old (Korean massage worker name). Both had worked at Eva Health Therapy in Manassas for about 5 years.

They were allegedly arrested and charged with running a prostitution business. Police said locals had reported husbands getting sex there, along with massage. Police raided the place, and according to the report:

"They executed a search warrant yesterday afternoon they did find the items they were looking for."

Which sort of sounds like they were looking for genitalia paraphernalia (condoms).

The report suggests more arrests are pending:

A third person involved in the operation of the business had been arrested before for running a prostitution ring in New Jersey.

Ahh.. another mention of the great state of New Jersey, in the context of massage.

Locking Pants for Indonesian Massage Parlor Girls

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.

Massage Parlor Reviewed: Missy's Scary Details

Well, someone has gossiped all the scary details 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 would have given him a ..... well, I better not say!

Update: looks like they moved the public view one.

Hidden cameras in Masage Parlors - Norwalk Spa

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

Levittown, Long Island Asian Prostitution

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?

Lynbrook New Joy Spa Asian Massage Parlor

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.

Medford Long Island Massage Parlor Prostitution

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.

James Jarman: Irresponsible Bias in Reporting News?

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:

• stop going to them and paying for sexual favors, because they will close up shop if you do
• support your local law enforcement by helping them close illegal businesses when they find them

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.

Lehigh PA Police buy Sex 4 Times: A Girl Starts to Wonder

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:

• according to the reports, the officer's informant was advised to follow "universal precautions", which is the term given to sanitary precautions when dealing with blood and other bodily fluids. In other words, wear rubber gloves when working with dead or diseased people, wear a face mask when in rat invested dwellings, and ...? What about when going in on a sting at a massage parlor? Last I checked the most common offering by far in any massage parlor is the hand job. It's illegal in Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania, considered sex just like a blow job or intercourse, and subject to prosecution under the law. There isn't a massage parlor around (especially Asian massage parlors in PA) where the attendant would refuse to commit the illegal act of giving a hand job (manual release, a.k.a. masturbation). It's the cheapest, too, typically costing a $40 tip. So a girl has to wonder, if the Pennsylvania State Police representative went in to uncover illegal solicitation by the massage attendant, why did he prepare by bringing a condom? Unless he planned on having his own orifices bathed in the bodily fluids of some massage attendant, what was the condom for?
• according to the reports, the police officer's sent this guy back 4 times, paying for sex in the massage parlor four times. Wow. "I had to screw her four times, to make sure she was really offering sex for money", I imagine he must have written into his report. Or maybe the police officers monitoring the event via wireless radio transmissions (also described in the report) weren't quite sure what "oh baby oh baby ohhhhhhhhh shit bitch I'M COMING AAAAAAHHHH!" meant. You know those little squeaky "eh" sounds that Asian prostitutes make when they are getting screwed... one little exhaled "eh" with each thrust? Well, maybe they weren't entirely audible on the radio transmission?  "What did she say? Do it again... we need better audio" the surveillance team might have said, as they sent the guy back in with a fresh condom.
• a girl also has to wonder if this is how the police officers reward their informants for snitching. After all, these informants are usually guilty themselves (of at least having knowledge of the crimes committed) so what are these cops doing, paying for criminals to get free sex from prostitutes?
• A girl has to wonder if the team of friends took turns screwing the prostitutes. I mean, surely one guy getting handed $200 of taxpayer "expense money" to buy himself some middle aged Asian pussy FOUR times would have pissed off some of the shift crew. "Why does he get all the honey?", they would ask, especially if the snitch was a well known loser street criminal. Bad for business, for sure. So I wonder, was this "informant" actually someone's friend, brother in law, a retired cop, a friendly associate or what? Who got the free pussy?

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:

• Is oral sex oral sex if it is simply "Asian whore mouth around undercover guy's stiff dick? I mean, is there some rule that says he has to achieve climax before it is "sex for money"? Four times back in to buy yet another blow job... this girl's just wondering', that's all.
• Also, what was the timing of these "buys"? Four times back for a blow job or sexual intercourse on the taxpayer dole, I am just curious if it was timed with the guy's personal life. Getting laid on a Friday night at 9pm is an awesome perk. But getting a blow job at 9am on a Monday is likely to drag the whole day's productivity down to a crawl. Who wouldn't want a nap and a peaceful day of relaxation after waking up on Monday morning, participating in an officer assignment meeting, and then stepping into a quiet massage room for a expert lip-smacking blow job from an anonymous Asian whore? I'm just curious how they planned it, that's all. Seems odd, to me anyway. Really.. who got the free pussy and why?

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

Broke Massage Parlor Madame gets 15 Months Federal Prison

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.

Arrests at Venus Spa Korean Massage Parlor in Georgetown

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.

New Meaning for "Are You A Cop?

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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Edison Massage Parlor Robbery: Halo Day Spa

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.

Massage Therapy in Jersey City New Jersey

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.

Hidden Cameras and Massage Video

The best links I have found yet for massage parlor videos, hidden camera videos, live cameras, and massage girl videos:

• massage girls going all the way (read the details of how he gets them)
• Keiki (massage girl) here and here and here
• Happy Ending/ HR videos (staged, but still worthy)
• strippers as friends - this guy makes videos
• Spy Cam Massage Parlor (looks staged, but good clear video)
• glory hole videos here
• random mix here

Norwalk Crystal Spa, Tranquility Massage Parlors

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."

Will that be Plastic Wrap or Condom?

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?

Morristown NJ Massage Parlor Busted

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?

Hidden Camera Videos of Russian Massage Parlor

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.

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Norwalk Health Center 94 Taylor Ave Norwalk

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 "

Massage Parlor Robbery - New Jersey arrests

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?

Pearl River NY Chinese Massage Parlor

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.

Chester NJ Massage Therapy Busted

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.

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What Draws Men to Massage Parlors

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?

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Kingdom Massage in Richmond, Vancouver

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:

Swan Lake Shiatsu, Richmond

Fu Yun Massage Centre, Richmond

Gun Hoa, Richmond

Jade Lake, Richmond

Kingdom Massage and Acupressure, Richmond

Carmel NY Massage Parlors Busted

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.

Nyack, New York Massage Parlor

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

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 Massage and Tanning Spa Busted

"...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

Massage Forum posts: Not Anonymous

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.

New Jersey Massage Parlor Busted

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 in Seattle busted (massage parlors)

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

Cops caught by massage parlor hidden camera

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 committed by police officers.

The charges against the massage parlor were dropped.

Korean Sex Trafficking in New York

They busted up Korean sex trafficking in New York, following a bribery arrest last April according to reports. More than 31 people from korean massage parlors were arrested,  and 70 or so ladies taken into "victim custody".

According to AP,

Arrests were made in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. following a joint investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It appears this was a good bust. I have less conidence in the way those "victims" will be procecuted processed.

Annapolis Chinese Massage Bust: No Sex, but...

There was no sex offered to the undercover officers this time, and no reports of prostitution or sex from other customers, but the news reporters will mention sex anyway because heck, what's a report of a chinese massage bust if there wasn't anything that caters to the prurient interest?

Our country's obscenity laws define "obscene" as something that "caters to the prurient interest" and the writers defined "prurient" as "material having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts." So in other words, waaaaay back in 1957 our esteemed grandfathers mad eit illegal to produce materials that have a tendency to excite lustful thoughts. Yes, and YOU folks out there pay taxes to support that nonsense.

But I digress. Here we have Annapolis police shutting down a chinese massage parlor while their staff of 4 chinese ladies was at the local mall giving mall massages. The crime? Unlicensed massage.

According to the report, an undercover investigation at the massage parlor resulted in no problems. The officers were not solicited for "sex acts" and did not find anything wrong. But they did follow up on the paperwork the massage parlor provided to the Westfield Annapolis Mall as evidence of proper licensing for the chinese ladies, and determined them to be allegedly fake. Fake licenses, no massagie, shut down Chinese massagie parlor.

The report is here.

Closed Cheeks: Prostitution Arrests in New Jersey

I can only imagine the police chief, as he got deeply involved in prositution, instructing the lady in front of him to "close cheeks". Ha ha that's a play on words. The lady in front of him would have been a vice officer, because Cheeks was a strip club in New Jersey and the Trenton area cops shut them down for alleged ties to prostitution. According to The Times, they busted a New Jersey korean massage parlor, and a handful of street walkers and johns as well.

Hamilton police said that on Thursday they used a search warrant to raid a massage parlor in the 2500 block of Nottingham Way. The name of the parlor was not released.
Township detectives started watching the parlor three weeks ago based on "numerous anonymous complaints from citizens" alleging prostitution was taking place there, police said. After noticing the "amount of traffic coming and going from the business," police said they sent undercover officers inside to gather evidence that led to the raid.

Oh, and they closed Cheeks Lounge as well. I don't know which is more interesting, the amount of attention New Jersey police pay to massage parlors, or the amount of massage parlors in New Jersey? Clearly New Jersey citizens like their massage, no? So what's with all the raids? Eiher there are a million massage places in New Jersey, or the police shut down every one that opens. Either way, it sort of suggests that the people in New Jersey want access to massage parlors, doesn't it?

Asian massage therapy closes: the right way to go down at a massage parlor

Out of Mississippi we witness a classy shutdown of an asian massage parlor. Yes, it was "inspected" and yes, it failed inspection, and yes there are charges filed or about to be filed, but in this case the owner is voluntarily closing the oriental massage parlor because " There's too much competition...Too many massage businesses already." Yoshiko Spa had been on the scene for 20 years.

According to the article, Yoshiko Spa was run by a lady who trained in a Korean Massage School in New Jersey. I suppose then she was Korean. Also in the report,

The Yoshiko Spa, a mainstay on U.S. 90 for the past 20 years, is closing after a state inspector discovered the business operating illegally....the spa's owner... said she decided to close after inspectors found massage therapists working without licenses...she fired two therapists after the April inspection.

So was it a tip off from a disgruntled customer? A competitor? Why were they "inspected"? Well, of course it was politics as usual. According to the report,

 

The Mississippi State Board of Massage Therapy recently filed criminal complaints against three Ocean Springs spas. A February inspection found therapists at Lucky Spa, V.I.P. Spa and Stress Away Spa working without state licenses. The state board plans to file criminal complaints against at least two [other] Pascagoula spas..

Ahh, so some political and jealous massage therapist has a bug up her (probably) butt about massage therapy that involves less than a sloppy exercise suit or mentholated massage oils. Sad, sad state of affairs in Mississippi for sure. But of course, it could have been for legitimate reasons. We see that :

Yoshiko Spa, which is still open, advertises oriental massage services seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.

A classy way to go down. Cited for lack of licenses, pay the fine and move on. But after 20 years? Now, if only the aggressors were so classy. Here, a massage parlor worker lays it out nice and clear for all of you out there that think massage parlors are evil, nasty businesses:

A Lucky Spa employee told The Mississippi Press on June 13 that she was not sure what goes on when the spa's therapists and customers go behind closed doors... said she's not sure what happens at her spa either, but she said she believes her therapists are not participating in illegal activities...."I tell them just to do massage...I have to trust somebody who works for me. I don't do anything wrong, so I trust them not to."

Ain't that the truth. There is no evil in owning and operating a massage parlor. And if there is any evil, it is between the customers and the therapist on the sly. And it *always* involves the customer (a husband or brother or even a minister in the community) who offers money for special favors. Think about it. You really have to admit to yourself that this is either a competitive move by the other massage therapists (that state board thing) OR a misguided attempt to remove temptation from the lives of the weak. If it's a competitive thing, why let your tax dollars support the one who was losing the free market competition for customers? And if it's the evil temptation thing, geeesh, how can you sleep at night knowing how you abuse your fellow human beings through deception and abuse?

Now for a legitimate reason coming from the Aldermen:

Ocean Springs aldermen voted unanimously this week to declare a 90-day moratorium on new massage businesses after two aldermen said the increasing number of spas is making residents suspicious.

That is a legitimate concern! And the Mayor chimes in :

"We've been in meetings about this subject," Mayor Connie Moran said. "It's been quite eye-opening."

I bet it has. And it would have been even more eye opening if you (a lady Mayor) were free to go into one of those spas and get some services. It would have been clean, and quite peaceful. You would have been treated well. And if you were even the least bit mature in your personality, you probably would have seen the value of the business in your community.But you are not so free, because of the very actions you sanction. You will drive your town's husbands and cousins and brothers underground into dirty and dangerous illegal places once all of the legit hand release spas are gone. What then? What will your men folk do when the illegal girl says "sure, no problem" to all those ugly little fetish requests the massage parlors ladies currently decline to accept out of decency and respect for their profession?

Now in the article we then hear from the allegedly jealous competition:

Ed ... a therapist at XXX, said he's glad to see other cities jumping on the bandwagon. "As a registered massage therapist, I'm ecstatic about cities finally looking at it and getting it under control...You have legitimate therapists who care about their reputations, and we want to be known as health care providers."

Okay Ed! Wat is the percentage of customers who like a man touching them for massage? Not too high... many (most?)men want a woman therapist, and many (most?) women want a woman therapist. Where does that put you? I'm just sayin'....

Where do I get my links from?

Someone asked me to put their affiliate links up onto my site. I said no. Then they showed me the ones I have, and that they were not actually mine. Yes, I know that. They are someone elses. The difference is, they belong to someone I want to support.

That is how it works, honey. I have very little say in this world. That is one of the reasons I like to spend my days inside a dark, quiet massage room as the only white girl in a korean massage parlor. I am unhappy with this world. I make my difference inside the room, one man at a time. And, I help myself on the web, one post at a time.

Someone one helped me with my cell phone at the Jersey Gardens Mall in New Jersey. He was a nice guy, the kind you would never expect to see in a new Jersey massage parlor. and I was having trouble and he helped me. I asked him for his card and he gave it to me. He owned a website company. A customer of mine in Phoenix is a web guy, so I asked him to tell me about the guy and he did. The guy had some affiliate links to a dating service on his blog. So I copied those and used them here. You can see some of them in use whenever I point to a dating website. Why not? I'm sending you there anyway.. might as well give that guy some business.

Another guy helped me with my business website, and I paid him back in kind. But, he still helps me when i have problems, and doesn't ask for anything in return. So I used his name for some other affiliate links. Why not? He balked when I asked him for his social security number, but when I showed him there was $500 waiting for him to claim he laughed and took over the account. Why not? He helped me without asking for anything in exchange. Some other affiliate codes I just took from websites that I like, as a way of supporting them. Simple, really.

So that's how it works, baby. Don't ask me, just be kind and help others and do good in the world, and maybe someday you'll start seeing residual income from affilaite programs you didn't know you had. At least I hope so.

Springfield New Jersey massage parlor busted

Is there really anything left for law enforcement officials to learn from the records kept at a massage parlor? They've been seizing "records" for years and it's always the same...the local lawyers, plumbers, construction workers, middle-aged Dads and the assistant Mayors and the EMS workers and the county cops and just about all the other needy "people in the neighborhood" go to the local massage parlor. What's news?

Whatever... they still do it. In this case, according to reports coming out of New Jersey, they raided a massage parlor in Springfield and took everything inside, leaving the business open. I guess they can't operate wihtout phones and massage tables and massage therapists.

A Bayonne woman was among five people arrested last week after Springfield police raided a Morris Avenue massage parlor authorities said was a front for prostitution. XXX, 29, of Bayonne, was arrested along with XXX, 39, of Oakland; XXX, 34, of Newark; XXX, 25, of Elizabeth; and XXX, 22, of New York City.

First they took the girls, and then they took the stuff:

All office supplies, from computers to files, were seized following Thursday's 8 p.m. raid at Pinetree Holistic Center, Springfield Police Chief XXX said.

Same old story... man gets tax money, man asks for massage, man listens to offer for extras, man calls in buddies, man busts working girls, man seeks external valifation for his manly acts of bravery by publicizing the raid in the papers:

According to authorities, an undercover police officer went into the massage parlor, paid $70 at the front desk to go into a room with one of the five women working there. Once inside the room, the woman stated prices for various sex acts she would perform...the other women arrested were charged with loitering for purposes of prostitution, along with not complying with new local statutes...the women had no clients at the time of the raid. However, three prospective customers did show up while police were there and "the phone never stopped ringing"... While Pinetree was not closed by police, they removed everything that enabled it to operate....

Yawn. The streets are safer... oh, wait a sec. The streets were already safe. okay the massage parlors are safer now... umm... no, they are not able to open as a massage parlor. Hmm... so what's better now that they raided this place and "caught" all those women non-complying with local ordinances?

Oh, I know. The other towns can now look forward to new business moving into the local economy, as massage parlors relocate to areas outside of Springfield, New Jersey. Yeah, that's it.

 

Busted: Lodi, New Jersey's Green Forest Health Club

The news coming in from New Jersey:

Authorities closed down an illegal massage parlor that was posing as a health club after a female employee made a sexual proposition to an undercover officer early Tuesday.

Okay, another great bust. Now were they Russian? Korean? Chinese?  Not Latina...they never bust the latinas in New Jersey.

Although the certificate of occupancy for the Green Forest Health Club on South Main Street says the establishment offers weight training and weight control, there was no evidence that it offered either, said police Capt. XXX XXX.

Well, weight control via feel-good therapy perhaps?

At about 11:50 a.m. Tuesday, a woman escorted the undercover officer to a room, then offered to have sex with him....Police arrested Queens residents XXX, 33, and XXX, 42, and charged them with prostitution-related offenses.(All Chinese names).

Like, um... prostitution? Or is it too graphic for the news to report? A Google search of "prostitution related offenses in New Jersey" tells us exactly what it means:

2C:34-1. Prostitution and Related Offenses.

(1)"Prostitution" is sexual activity with another person in exchange for something of economic value, or the offer or acceptance of an offer to engage in sexual activity in exchange for something of economic value.

So you don't have to do it, you just have to accept the offer. Offer of what, you ask?

(2)"Sexual activity" includes, but is not limited to, sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, and oral-anal contact, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; masturbation; touching of the genitals, buttocks, or female breasts; sadistic or masochistic abuse and other deviate sexual relations.

Hmmm... so the ass is really of interest to these politicians making laws. It's not "genitals" but it deserves special mention..over, and over, and over again. Now back to the story about Lodi New Jersey:

They took three other women - XXX, 38, of Queens; XXX, 40, of Queens, and XXX, 32, of Fort Lee - into custody for violating a borough ordinance requiring them to have state certification. [the officer] said the establishment, which opened late last year, had six small rooms and a shower. Each room had a massage table and a radio, he said.

And now, drum roll please....

The busts early Tuesday capped a months-long investigation, [the officer] said.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  The "busts"... "capped"... a months-long investigation. Tooooooo funny!

The newspaper continues:

Last year, Lodi officials adopted an ordinance requiring that such establishments and their employees be state-certified. XXX, who was charged with prostitution, was being held on $2,500 bail Tuesday at the Bergen County Jail. Police issued summonses to XXX, who was charged with promoting prostitution, and the three other women.

Well now Lodi, New Jersey is safer for everyone, thanks to the diligent months long efforts undercover with the young asian females inthe illicit massage parlors of Lodi.

 

New Jersey Massage Parlor Closed

"2 women charged with prostitution allegedly reported by THE JOURNAL NEWS"

Now here is a new twist on an old story. We start with the "news":

Two women have been charged with prostitution in a police sting at Comfort Spa.

And the background info about the arrest at Comfort Spa:

Ramapo police began surveillance of the establishment at 304 E. Saddle River Road after complaints from area residents and business owners who said women were engaging in prostitution there, Detective Sgt. XXX  said.

Now we get a glimpse into the depth of brains in the local police department. Not that I don't think they are smart, because maybe they just think the reading public is that dumb:

"We've been keeping an eye on the spa for about a year," he said. "It took us a while to figure out if there was any kind of pattern."

Huh? It took A YEAR to find a pattern at an asian massage parlor in New Jersey? What's the difficulty? Come on... a YEAR??

We continue to learn as we read:

Undercover Ramapo police officers entered the business Tuesday and asked for massages. Two women working there offered to perform a sex act at the end of the massage for money, XXX said. "The theme of it was the massage includes a sexual act with an expectation of a tip after the sex act," he said.

Oh My Freaking God this gy is SHARP! The theme is that after the massage you can get a sex act if you pay extra money. Genius! Pure genius, and it only took a YEAR to figure that out. Amazing.

Now let's shame a few hard -working Korean gals in their forties, to make the wives reading at home reel a little better:

XXX Kim, 42, and XXX Kim, 45, who both said they lived in Queens, were charged with unauthorized practice of a profession, a felony under an education law that requires massage therapists to be licensed by the state, and prostitution, a misdemeanor.

Did you catch that? A felony violation of an education law, and a misdemeanor for the actual prostitution. Geesh... if this society isn't fcked up! Since morality is supposed to be based on "local standards" -- meaning yu and I get to decide what is decent in our own communities, the feds manage to pass an EDUCATION law that carries a FELONY conviction!

And not to leave any participants out, evenif they had nothing to do with the disusting and dirty-dirty-dirty-because-I-cant-have-any sex act, let's nail the receptionist with that FELONY rap as well:

A third woman was charged with the same education law felony when detectives returned to the spa yesterday looking for the owner, XXX said. The woman, XXX, 38, of Palisades Park, N.J., offered the detectives a massage and she attempted to escort them into a massage room.

Finally, for all you fans out there who want to show up at court and wave fingers of shame at these heathens, we are provided with the details of their due process:

Each of the three women was released on $500 bail pending an appearance in Airmont village court at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 5.

Of course after a year there is more work to do:

Police are continuing their investigation of the spa. XXX said the owner also may be charged.

You people make me sick.

Long Island massage arrests

Well, apparently Nassau County on Long Island, in New York, has been very busy shutting down illegal massage parlors. After one Long Island massage parlor ring was busted, we here of a massage parlor on Sunrise Highway getting raided.

How did we hear about it? On a massage parlor discussion board, a patron describes his experience walking in and getting busted by the police who had taken control of the business:

Went there the other night to check out, whats up. And I noticed a cuple cars in lot, so I figured that they were pretty busy. So I figured, I'm gonna check it anyway. Knock on the door, and resonable cute Indian girl answers the door (I should of known at that point), went in and (that all too fimiluar sound,"Don't move, Suffolk County PD"). I frooze & shit at the same time. They put ,me in aback room due too another poor brother was approaching. Same thing for another poor inocent soul. We got the speech, they also ran our lincese numbers thru database. I was clean as well as the other guy. Told to never do again, and too warn everyone. So I'm taking that advice and letting the community know. 947, shut down !

Long island Massage Parlors Busted

According to AP reports,

NEW YORK -- An eight-month investigation led to six arrests Saturday in an alleged illegal massage and prostitution scheme on Long Island, Nassau County police said.

You know, I think I know this guy. I'm gonna have to look up his cell number and see if it's him:

XXX, of Flushing, is accused of running the illegal operation at two rented houses in Plainview and Massapequa Park, police said. Authorities said charges against him include promoting prostitution.

Five of XXX's workers were also charged with practicing illegal massage, police said. Two of the five were also charged with prostitution, police said.

This and then more reports of massage parlors shut down on Long Island.

Brian Maass in Denver

It seems a certain Brian Maass has taken a video camera undercover and filmed massage parlor women offering him sex for money. The videos also show him asking for sex in exchange for money.

Watch the video for yourself.