New York Massage Parlors: Global human trafficking news roundup ( March 5, 2010)

Florida: Authorities encourage the community participation in rescuing human trafficking victims. A 15 year old trafficking victim from Guatemala was rescued by a woman who built a friendship with her over a year. She called the police after suspecting that the girl is being exploited by her traffickers. 
New York: Sex trafficking is growing issue in Queens according to the authority. The district attorney says that the rate of conviction in Queens was 81.7%, which exceeded that of the city. 
Georgia:  A new bill’s effectiveness to deter human trafficking and regulate massage parlor is questioned. According to the report, approximately a half of the massage parlors in the state is illegally operating in the state. The report also states that though the bill is necessary, it is not enough to regulate massage parlors and prostitution in the state. 

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

New York Massage Parlors: What to look for in a massage therapist

A bag of rocks pounded into my back and a karate chop assault by a woman who looked like a kind-hearted grandma isn’t exactly how I thought I’d spend my free time in New York, but that’s the situation I found myself in a few weeks ago.
Every year I tour the United States to be interviewed by the media about the Get Ripped! program. My schedule is gruelling and my body aches from cramming into airplanes and sleeping in unfamiliar hotel beds.
To make matters worse, I get really nervous before interviews. So, when I noticed a sign advertising discounted massages near my New York City hotel, I decided to stop in for a treatment.
Papers and opened nail polish bottles were scattered across the counter of the massage parlour, but the petite masseuse who greeted me with a wide grin and welcoming eyes seemed like a sweet lady.

See the full article from “Calgary Herald”

New York Massage Parlors: What to look for in a massage therapist

A bag of rocks pounded into my back and a karate chop assault by a woman who looked like a kind-hearted grandma isn’t exactly how I thought I’d spend my free time in New York, but that’s the situation I found myself in a few weeks ago.
Every year I tour the United States to be interviewed by the media about the Get Ripped! program. My schedule is gruelling and my body aches from cramming into airplanes and sleeping in unfamiliar hotel beds.
To make matters worse, I get really nervous before interviews. So, when I noticed a sign advertising discounted massages near my New York City hotel, I decided to stop in for a treatment.
Papers and opened nail polish bottles were scattered across the counter of the massage parlour, but the petite masseuse who greeted me with a wide grin and welcoming eyes seemed like a sweet lady.

See the full article from “Calgary Herald”

New York Massage Parlors: Tiger is no sex addict

That most men are randy and think about sex at least once an hour isn’t news to the women who live with them. Sex addiction happens when those sexual needs override everything else, and render the individual unable to function both personally and professionally. So, based on my definition, Tiger Woods is not a sex addict.
Addiction is a real thing. Anything that targets the pleasure centres of the brain can become addictive. Smoking, alcohol, chocolate, or gambling can certainly change your physiology. Any addiction that gives you a pleasurable buzz in your head can have you coming back compulsively for more.
Sex most certainly falls into this category. It goes from being a happy pill to a full blown addiction when it starts to take over an inordinate amount of brain space. The sex addicts I see in my day to day practice are paralyzed with inaction. They surf porn for hours at a time, find themselves masturbating at work, blow their rent money at the local massage parlours and are generally filled with self loathing.

See the full article from “Ottawa Citizen”

New York Massage Parlors: Budget Beauty: Manicured Without Getting Clipped

Then they stuck more needles in me.
For aficionados of acupuncture, this is old hat. According to the tenets of Chinese medicine, tapping skinny needles into your pressure points is an age-old way of rebalancing the body and restoring, or ensuring, general health.
For the Frugal Traveler, however, this was entirely new. And not because I don’t trust non-Western medicine, or because my body never needed rebalancing. It was mostly because such treatments — which I lump together with massages and spas — have always seemed needlessly expensive. Sure, I’ve had worthy spa treatments in Asia (shiatsu in Saigon, Thai massage in Bangkok), but back home in New York City I never even considered making an appointment, or even ducking into one of the cheap but undifferentiated Tui Na massage parlors in Chinatown.

See the full article from “New York Times (blog)”

New York Massage Parlors: Media Workers: It Could Be Worse. It Could Be 1977.

New York has done this since, multiple times, most recently (as far as I can tell), in 2005. This newest list is also very much worth a look, if only to see the athletes and now-disgraced titans of industry and who make their 1977 counterparts look like relative hobos. (Lehman’s Dick Fuld made $35,000,000 in 2005; Frank Cary, CEO of IBM, earned $595,000 28 years prior. Raise your hand if you still do business with Lehman Brothers.)
These comparisons aren’t fair, of course. A dollar in 1977 isn’t the same as a dollar today. (In fact, a 1977 dollar is worth about three-and-a-half times a 2010 dollar.) But it’s more fun comparing your salary to Rose Ann Scamardella’s $60,000 annual earnings than her actual $214,000-in-2010-dollars haul. (“Tony”, who passed out flyers for the Harem massage parlor, gets boosted from $3 an hour to only $10, so feel free to act superior.)

See the full article from “Mediaite.com”

New York Massage Parlors: There’s the rub

Some residents and officials are worried about a new massage parlor that won approval in Middlesex Twp. The owner says it will be a legal service.
Friday, February 19, 2010 CHRISTINE BAKER, The Patriot-News
Neighbors and some officials say they fear the massage spa opening next to the adult book store along the Miracle Mile section of U.S. Route 11 — truck stop central in Cumberland County — will put the “sex” in Middlesex Twp.
In the next few weeks, Blue Spa will open next to Mature Fantasy, an adult book store. Township officials, who can’t ban such a business but only regulate it, recently approved the spa. But that doesn’t mean officials like the idea.

“What do we look like when we have a massage parlor next to the adult book store?” said Scott Shirey, a member of the township zoning hearing board.

See the full article from “Patriot-News”

New York Massage Parlors: Some Middlesex Township officials, residents are worried about opening of …

View full sizeCHRISTINE BAKER, The Patriot-NewsThe house on North Letort Drive near the Harrisburg Pike is to be called Blue Spa, and is to open in a couple of months. Ed, who would not give his last name, said he traveled from New York to meet with contractors.
A massage spa planned for the 1200 block of Harrisburg Pike in Middlesex Twp. will have to meet strict requirements under a permit issued by officials.
    
For instance, the Blue Spa must close between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Masseuses must be fingerprinted by local police and pass background checks.
   
Owner Ahn Lee, of Flushing, N.Y., told officials she will meet those measures and she intends to operate a perfectly legal service.
   
Neighbors and some officials said they still have concerns.
   
They fear that, because Blue Spa’s rub-downs can be performed by unschooled masseuses, it might  attract a massage parlor clientele.

See the full article from “Patriot-News”

New York Massage Parlors: In Vancouver, enjoyment is an Olympic event

In the last two decades Richmond has become Vancouver’s new Chinatown, home to the second-biggest Asian community in North America; Asian Canadians now make up about 60% of Richmond’s population.
Stepping into one of Richmond’s shopping malls is a quick trip to the contemporary Orient. Yaohan Centre has a giant pan-Asian supermarket, and Aberdeen Centre is classic, over-the-top Hong Kong, right down to a showy multimedia water-fountain production in the foyer.
There are Sikh temples, the biggest Buddhist temple in North America, Chinese foot massage parlors and herb shops, but I go to Richmond to eat, especially at the Richmond Night Market, open weekends throughout the summer. You can smell the spicy lamb kebabs and sautéed noodles long before you reach the maze of 300 stalls lighted by strings of lights and hazed in plumes of smoke from grilled squid and prawns.

See the full article from “Los Angeles Times”

New York Massage Parlors: The one personnel change Obama most urgently needs

Currently producing the kind of should-he-stay-or-should-he-go-now chorus that would make any fan of The Clash proud is a man who has made clashes his stock-in-trade, Rahm Emanuel. Some say he is thinking of running for Mayor of Chicago — although the foul-mouthed and intemperate Rahm seems far too refined and “clean” a politician to make it in Illinois Democratic politics. (To soak in the full sludge, read up on the recent flame out of the just-selected Illinois democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, Scott Cohen. After winning the primary for his party’s nomination, he was pressured by his running mate to drop out because Cohen, who made his millions a pawn broker, was a roid-using, deadbeat Dad accused of beating his ex-wife and a hooker ex-girlfriend he got to know at a massage parlor. And this is the guy who won the race…)

See the full article from “Foreign Policy”

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