massage parlor

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has "massage parlor" as a brothel (or something similar) become so
> ubiquitous that people can just be claimed to have been arrested for
> "being at a massage parlor" and everyone understands the underlying
> event?

FWIW, a friend once told me that a friend of hers had written that she
was paying her way through college by working in a massage parlor. The
friend's friend noted that she "only had to give handjobs."

Apparently, the FF found it worth her while to point out that *her*
job did *not* entail actually *fucking* random men. This was in 1973.
But, even back in the '60's, "everybody" already knew that the massage
parlor was only a dodge to circumvent laws against the operation of
houses of ill-repute.

OT: That girls and women should have to pay for their education
through some form of sex-work isn't a new thing. After legendary
Republican President, while "serving" as governor of California,
tripled the student-body fee* (read, "tuition") at the University of
California and, at the same time, cut state support for all levels of
public education, a nudie bar featuring "REAL NAKED COLLEGE GIRLS!
NUDE! NUDE! NUDE!" opened at Davis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Cheyenne

contains a half-assed sketch of the career of a legendary Boston
University student, in the day of Boston's late, lamented Combat Zone.


*Because the state constitution guarantees tuition-free higher
education to all residents of California, tuition is officially
referred to as a "student-body fee" or some other such.
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-Wilson
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