massage parlor

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:22 PM -0500 3/9/11, Victor Steinbok wrote [inter alia]:
>
>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? Or is this simply obvious from the context?
>
>     VS-)

ubiquitous enough to prompt a now relatively hoary (as it were)
retronym "therapeutic massage" for the kind without, um, happy endings

LH

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