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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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?

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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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.

Queens Massage Parlor Robbery and Rape

From the new York Post Jan 12, 2005:

"Two men robbed and sexually assaulted two female workers at knifepoint in a Flushing massage parlor"

I'm not sure I understand why it was so important to say it was a massage parlor in this article. It was a business, and when there is an armed robbery and rape in a community it's a threat to everyone, isn't it?

"The thugs barged into the massage parlor on College Point Boulevard about 7:30 p.m. Monday and demanded sexual intercourse from two female employees...the assailants then sexually assaulted the women and stole their cash, credit cards and cell phones..."

Hopefully they use the cell phones and get caught quickly.