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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?

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 "

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?

(original photo is repeated below)

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.