Dallas uses newer tactic for punishing illegal massage parlors

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

Some damn day people will read about the dumb days and wonder: when an already overburdened police force wasted time and money trying to take out massage parlors instead of tageting serious neighborhood and street city crime. When simple matters of victimless sex were a high priority because of pious mandates over common sense about human nature.

I've never been to a massage parlor, but I've been a man all my life and if those places (restricted by zoning) are seeing to it that otherwise frustrated and volatile guys get off instead of having them angrily on the loose like cocked guns randomly ready to GO off.... God knows where against God knows who..., then they're doing a public service.

Scott Doyle, says:

Wow.

Illegal whores doing a public service to prevent rape and pillage, eh? I'm not saying it's the most effective and efficient policing, but I know I wouldn't appreciate something like that going down near me if I was a resident or business around there. Traffic tickets are one thing...

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

In fact, you might 'appreciate it' if you had altogether another set of rubber-meets-the-road life realities to deal with and no other conduit available. You want a day laborer to go to church and start dating some lady and marry and have legal sex inside the marriage forever and ever? Go rent a Doris Day flick. It's 2007 in Rawlins Reality Realty Land.

My earlier post specifically points out that these businesses are strictly zoned, so unless you reside in an industrial and/or commercial strip specifically set aside for bars, clubs, 'parlors', etc., the likelihood of 'something like this going down near' you is zero. Make no mistake; I am in no way endorsing them, but I am certainly questioning the use of policing man power to curtail activities therein. Priority: Webster Dictionary defines as: "highest or higher in importance, rank, privilege, etc.: a priority task".

This ongoing puritan Church Lady moralistic condemnation of male sexual libido is like puffing up over the way nature puts dandelions in our lawns. Sometimes the best way to 'regulate' human behavior is to recognize it for what it is and always has been. Meanwhile, if my home is being burglarized, I sure don't want the cop that could have been on my beat being beaten off on some slab at tax payer expense or waiting for his 'masseuse' to ask what he 'likes' in which case he nails 'em with a fine ticket. Silly me.

Lisa Lawrence Merritt, says:

I totally agree with Rawlins.

I once saw a 500lb man getting a dance from a stripper at The Lodge. This man paid the stripper a large sum of money to pay attention to him: knowing in Real Life no woman would.

Sad but true.

Rawlins Gilliland, says:

As they say at that other illegal 'parlor' down the way, "BINGO".

Scott Doyle, says:

I don't disagree that they surely have better things to do.

However, I don't know the area at all. If these things are near bidnesses that generate a reasonable amount of tax revenue and those cats don't appreciate it, me thinks they have motivation to oust whores. Not the most noble reason, but in Rawlins Reality Realty Land I figure it'll fly.

And welcome to the intertron re: conduit for sexual release - is her hand really that much better than my own?

Pavel Lishin, says:

"is her hand really that much better than my own?"

Yes.

Lisa Lawrence Merritt, says:

Masturbation: having sex with someone you love.

Jes sayin'.

Scott Doyle, says:

Btw, seems this is entirely derailed (for the time being) - DMN article indicates they haven't caught 'em for anything more than not having a license to give a regular massage...which is absurd if cops aren't undercover enough to catch obvious prostitutes:

"In a new tactic made possible by a 2005 state law, the city attorney's office got injunctions against two spas last month for running illegal massage parlors – even though police weren't able to make any prostitution arrests. In the past, such lawsuits have typically followed prostitution charges."

Kevin Kunreuther, says:

The only reason I object to the parlours is not the prostitution (that should be legalized, licensed and taxed, great source of govt revenue), but the real human traffiking, that is the real crime. These ladies are impressed from Korea and forced to submit to this work. These Korean parlours put the "voluntary" parlours out of business - they beat them over price, upkeep, exotica, etc.

Aaron Johnson, says:

Masseuse: What do you like? Officer: Writing tickets! Why do you think I became a police officer? It's more fun than sex... Masseuse: Ok, whatever gets you off. How much is the ticket for? Officer: $195 Masseuse: Ok, 1 Massage with happy ending, $195, thank you, come again.