I'm sorry - but I've never had any trouble distinguishing between legitimate
therapeutic massage and prostitution.
D Klein
Kenwood
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From: "Scott McGerik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MPLS-ISSUES" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Prostitution masquerading as massage
> wizardmarks wrote:
> >
> > The two on Lake Street are the Royal Knight Sauna and the Utopia East
Health
> > Club. I'd have something maybe approaching respect for them if they
just put
> > up a sign saying, "Women and Girls Rented for Sex Here." For a while
back in
> > the seventies? they were "rap parlors." For the lova Mike!
> > WMarks, Central
> >
> > Carol Becker wrote:
> >
> > > Part of the problem with regulating "massage parlors" is that fronts
for
> > > prostitution can call themselves anything. One I remember was called
XXX
> > > Laundry or something like that. "Come clean" I think was their motto.
I
> > > think they had one washer on the premises.
>
> It is clear from the above comments that the criminal activity is
> prostitution, not massage, laundry washing, sauna usage, or health
> club usage. Yet, from reading certain headlines, a person might get
> the idea that the criminal activity is massage, at least with regards
> to the raid on the NE Minneapolis parlour last December. I find this
> especially troubling because there is a massage clinic, run by the
> Minneapolis School of Massage and Bodyworks, located on Lowry Ave in
> NE Minneapolis. Will they suffer as a result of the continued
> association of massage with sex and prostitution? I hope not, but fear
> so.
>
> Scott McGerik
> Hawthorne
> Minneapolis
> http://www.visi.com/~scottlm/
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